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There was a long discussion this week on the wikitech-l mailing list about whether or not the right to create Gerrit repositories ("repos"; essentially stores of code for individual projects) should be extended to all WMF engineers in order to speed up the current development cycle. Responding, WMF developer and Gerrit expert Chad Horohoe explained that setting up a new repository is not just about choosing a name; rather, the creator must have to have some knowledge about the structure of user access permissions in Gerrit, plus a number of other related properties. Though a "Project Creators" group could be created to meet this need – Horohoe provided a mw:Git/Creating_new_repositories a tutorial on how to create repositories for this purpose – there was concern about repo list clutter, given that deleting and renaming the repos is not possible at this moment. Nevertheless, there was also general support for the view that extended creation rights co...

Recent hire Adam Wight will start work at Wikimedia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco this week as a Fundraising Engineer ( wikitech-l mailing list ). He was involved in customizing open-source web services for non-profits at web development firm Giant Rabbit, and he is familiar with the CiviCRM system used to handle Wikimedia donations, which could prove vital in allowing him to more successfully support both the activities of the foundation and the other chapters, many of whom use the same software. Before joining here he was involved in the Atako Project (the first open-source Google Gadget directory); "Halfway Library", a project aimed at sharing and reviewing books; and "Prokaryote", an evolution/behavior patterns simulator used in university and high school classrooms. More recently he has contributed to "Offline" extension for MediaWiki, and he is currently helping with a distributed wiki project "OneCommons". Wright...