Readers/Reader Growth/Maintenance Levels and Responsibilities
< Readers | Reader Growth
As part of the recent Readers group restructuring, the Reader Growth team has been given various code stewardship responsibilities. Details are below.
Maintenance Levels
[edit]This table lays out how Reader Growth handles different levels of stewardship. This includes full development to end-of-life care. Refer to the following for what kinds of work and review each tier Reader Growth currently supports.
This is a working document and subject to change.
| Priority | Development | Code review | Task subtypes considered | Priority levels considered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active development | Team is currently working on this. Development is coordinated by the Product Manager. | Team will complete bug fixes and may develop small features. | Feature Request, Bug Report, Spike, Production Error, Security Issue | Low and higher |
| Active maintenance | Team will complete bug fixes and may develop small features. | Team will triage and respond to all ready-for-review patches with a review timeline or notice that we will not pick up a patch to review. | Bug Report, Production Error, Security Issue | Medium and Higher |
| Passive maintenance | Team will help resolve UBNs and may work on this if required by OKR goals. | Only for UBNs or security fixes. | Bug Report, Production Error, Security Issue | UBN / security issues only |
| Undecided | Team is the maintainer of last resort for this project for the time being. This status will be updated in the near future. Team may solicit for volunteer maintainers. | Only for UBNs or security fixes. | Bug Report, Production Error, Security Issue | UBN / security issues only |
| Unupported | Security fixes only. Team may move toward removal. | Only for security fixes. | Security Issue | Security issues only |
Maintenance Responsibilities
[edit]The table below maps out which extension the Reader Growth team touches, who stewards them now, and how they’re supported.
| Component | Description | About URL | Support Tier | Previous wikimedia.org Maintainers | Current Maintainers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extension:ReaderExperiments | Sandbox for reader-facing prototypes | Extension:ReaderExperiments | Active development | Reader Growth Team | |
| Extension:MobileFrontend | Provides a mobile-friendly version of a MediaWiki instance | Extension:MobileFrontend | Active maintenance | Web Team | Reader Growth Team |
| Codex | The design system for Wikimedia | Codex documentation page and using Codex within MediaWiki | Active maintenance | Design System Team | |
| Extension:Charts | Charts provides interactive data visualization capabilities | Extension:Chart | Undecided | Charts Task Force | |
| Extension:MultimediaViewer | Provides a better user experience for viewing thumbnail images | Extension:MultimediaViewer | Undecided | Structured Data Team | |
| Extension:MediaSearch | An alternative, media-focused way to display search results | Extension:MediaSearch | Undecided | Structured Data Team | |
| Extension:SearchVue | Provides improvements to the Special:Search page, including a "quickview" panel | Extension:SearchVue | Unsupported | Structured Data Team | |
| Extension:TimedMediaHandler | Allows you to display audio and video files in wiki pages | Extension:TimedMediaHandler | Undecided | ||
| Extension:3D | Provides support for 3D file formats | Extension:3D | Undecided | ||
| Extension:Popups | Displays popups when users hover over article links and footnote markers | Extension:Popups | Undecided | Web Team | |
| Extension:RelatedArticles | Adds a link to related pages on the footer | Extension:RelatedArticles | Undecided | Web Team | |
| Extension:NearbyPages | Provides location based articles via Special:Nearby special page | Extension:NearbyPages | Undecided | Web Team | |
| Extension:WikibaseMediaInfo | Adds a new "structured data" UI to File pages on Commons. Built in OOUI JS/PHP | Extension:WikibaseMediaInfo | Undecided | Structured Data Team | |
| Extension:ArticleSummaries | An experiment that presents simple article summaries on mobile Wikipedia | Extension:ArticleSummaries | Unsupported | ||
| ImageSuggestions Data Pipeline? | Undecided | Structured Data Team |