Talk:Requests for comment/Governance

Teams
The proposal is focused on teams, so I suppose this is only about WMF, not MediaWiki in general? Nemo 07:38, 19 January 2016 (UTC)
 * My reading of the proposal is that "teams" means areas of focus. Examples that spring to mind are data storage, parsing, internationalization, security, user interface, etc. The basic idea is to scale decision making by expanding the number of decision makers and letting subject matter experts and enthusiasts have more control in their areas of expertise while still having a core group of decision makers (i.e. the current ArchCom group) who oversee the entire process. --BDavis (WMF) (talk) 22:12, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is also my understanding. I don't think there's any implication these people need to have the same employer.  In Rust (which this is based on), their equivalent of ArchCom is also a team, called the core team.  They say it has "some people working full-time on Rust, some volunteers, and some production users".  I assume the same holds true for the other teams. Mattflaschen-WMF (talk) 02:43, 21 January 2016 (UTC)