Help talk:Toolforge/Toolforge standards committee

Good luck and thanks.

Nice! — billinghurst sDrewth 11:04, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Help with Toolforge tool with unknown license

Hi Standards Committee,

I'm in the process of taking over VICbot, a Commons bot created by Dschwen (toolforge entry), I'm taking it over because the maintainer isn't very active these days and the bot was not doing its job. The source code is available on-wiki at c:User:VICbot/source, so getting the source code isn't the problem - the problem is that it has no license. Obviously, by publishing on-wiki it's available as CC-BY-SA 3.0, but a) that isn't a great choice for code, and b) that isn't an acceptable license for toolforge. I have contacted the bot's creator both on their talk page about me operating a fork of the bot (last week) and via email asking about licensing (earlier today), but I don't think I'm going to get a response, so I'm not sure how to approach this problem. If someone could see if there is a license in the copy of the tool running on toolforge, that would be very helpful; failing that, any advice on how to deal with this would be much appreciated. GeneralNotability (talk) 01:59, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

The code is at /data/project/vic/vic_bot on Toolforge, but it does not have a license. — JJMC89 (T·C) 02:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

JJMC89 thanks - didn't realize that would be publicly accessible. Oh well, it was worth a shot. GeneralNotability (talk) 02:52, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

August 2024 committee nominations

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T370474

The Toolforge standards committee (née Tool Labs standards committee) was established in 2017 following a membership nomination process in December 2016. There have been no formal membership changes in the subsequent 7 years. Per the original charter of the committee, the process for membership changes is to be handled on an as-needed basis at the discretion of the Wikimedia Foundation.

As a representative of the Wikimedia Foundation, BryanDavis has initiated this nomination process in order to establish a new quorum of three or more active committee members. Any Toolforge project member with a Developer account not blocked in any Wikimedia technical space is eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations by a third party should be counter-signed by the nominee to indicate they would accept the responsibility and be willing to sign the Volunteer NDA. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.

Wikimedia Foundation staff will work with folks who are successfully nominated to pursue the required Volunteer NDA following the close of the nomination period. No community voting phase will be used in this iteration of the process. Appointment to the committee will be at the discretion of the Wikimedia Foundation. Appointees will be made from the list of nominees who accept their nomination and succeed in signing the Volunteer NDA.

-- BryanDavis (talk) 20:23, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

November 2025 committee nominations

Following the TFSC's revision to the appointment process from appointment as needed by the Foundation to an annual appointment by the existing committee, this is the first annual appointment nomination period.

Any Toolforge project member in good standing (not blocked in any Wikimedia technical space) is eligible for nomination. Self-nominations are acceptable. Nominations by a third party must be counter-signed by the nominee to indicate they would accept the responsibility and be willing to sign the Volunteer NDA.

Following the nomination period there will be a two-week period for the Toolforge admins and community to provide feedback on the nominees to the current committee. Following the feedback, the current committee will vote on the nominees. Nominees approved by the committee must sign the Volunteer NDA to be appointed to the committee.

— JJMC89 (T·C) 18:21, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Nominee feedback

Feedback on the nominees is open through 2025-12-12. Please email the current committee at toolforge-standards-committee.feedbacktoolforge.org.

Activity

Has there been activity of the current committee that is not visible with this Phabricator query? taavi (talk!) 18:32, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

I believe all of the direct abandoned tool policy assistance rendered by the committee should be included in that query. The committee's private mailing list discussions and the partial committee meetup during Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 are not captured in Phabricator. The most impactful outcome to date of non-public discussions was the updated appointment process and the subsequent #November 2025 committee nominations iteration. -- BryanDavis (talk) 18:50, 4 December 2025 (UTC)