Technical decision making/Updates/2021-05-13

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Week of 5/10/21 Updates[edit]

Reminders[edit]

  • Office hours: We have shifted to a bi-weekly by appointment model. The appointments are available on the WMF Staff Calendar every other Tuesday for 30 minutes each.
  • Decision Reviews: We are scheduling these as needed for those who have a decision they are moving through the process.


We currently have 2 active, 1 in the queue, and 2 competed proposals to be published and their updates are as follow:

Active Proposals[edit]

  • Strategy for avoiding or excluding client side errors from gadgets and user scripts (T262493)
    • Stage: Decision Statement Overview
    • Status: TDF chairs provided feedback
    • Update: Meeting for DSO Review 5/24
  • Front End Build Step (T279108)
    • Stage: Decision Statement Overview
    • Status: TDF department’s representatives feedback received
    • Update: Project owner reviewing feedback and working on prototypes for DR.

Queue Proposals[edit]

  • T267928:  Project owner is working on their Decision Statement Overview (DSO) currently and will inform TDF when they are ready
  • T282585: New project submission this week, chairs confirmed this should go through the TDF process and the project owner sent a Decision Statement Overview (DSO) template to work on.


Completed Proposals Published here[edit]

  • Maps 2.0 project (T275063)
    • Stage: Decision Made
    • Status: Published
    • Update: Final review with chairs last week for final sign-off and published the final proposal.
  • Build the new Vue.js search experience
    • Stage: Decision made
    • Status: Published
    • Update: The decision was made back in January using a prototype process without the full forum. We are currently standing up a place on MediaWiki.org to publish these publicly. Once this is set up, we will move this decision from the document to Wiki.


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