Portal:Toolforge/Ongoing Efforts/Toolforge Workgroup
Toolforge Workgroup
About
The Toolforge Workgroup is a focused group dedicated to maintaining and evolving the Toolforge service.
It is currently formed by some WMCS team members but any volunteer is welcome to participate, as long as you are prepared to commit dedicated time and join regular sync meetings. For smaller contributions, contact us via IRC or Phabricator for guidance, or feel free to choose any task you'd like to tackle.
Current members (Q1 2024-2025)
This is meant to be updated when someone wants to participate/stop participating during the current quarter (inverse alphabetical order):
- User:Raymond_Ndibe
- User:Slavina_Stefanova
- User:Komla Sapaty
- User:FNegri
- User:David_Caro
- User:Arturo_Borrero_Gonzalez
- User:Andrew_Bogott
Background
We started a workgroup for the Toolforge Build Service that worked pretty well, and at the same time, we started having toolforge admins periodical meetings to sync between ourselves.
Some time after, the Build Service evolved and it started needing and affecting more and more other Toolforge components, to the point that it was not about just the Build Service anymore. At that point we decided to widen the scope of the workgroup to the whole of Toolforge.
There's still the need to discuss and communicate between Toolforge admins what are the next steps and changes needed for Toolforge, so the toolforge admins periodical meetings will still happen, but there will be now a group of people coordinating to plan and implement the outcomes (this effort).
Communication and support
Support and administration of the WMCS resources is provided by the Wikimedia Foundation Cloud Services team and Wikimedia movement volunteers. Please reach out with questions and join the conversation:
- Chat in real time in the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud connect or the bridged Telegram group
- Discuss via email after you have subscribed to the cloud@ mailing list
- Subscribe to the cloud-announce@ mailing list (all messages are also mirrored to the cloud@ list)
- Read the News wiki page
Use a subproject of the #Cloud-Services Phabricator project to track confirmed bug reports and feature requests about the Cloud Services infrastructure itself
Read the Cloud Services Blog (for the broader Wikimedia movement, see the Wikimedia Technical Blog)