Wikimedia Community Developers Group

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Description and mission

The Wikimedia Community Developers Group is a Wikimedia user group composed of both volunteer and staff developers, which aims to foster closer collaboration between all developers — whether that's those who build and maintain tools, provide code review of patches on Gerrit or Gitlab, manage our infrastructure or are just starting out.

This user groups' mission aligns closely with the first guiding principle, namely to;

cultivate a healthy community of contributors around the source code, and to work with upstream projects and contribute back improvements to their code.
— Freedom and open source

Eligibility

We seek to encourage newer developers and help build their skills — as such, our eligibility criteria have been made to be as open as possible. Any active member of the Wikimedia Community is eligible to join this user group, providing they abide by the code of conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces.

Activities

Leading code review-a-thons to ensure volunteer's patches do not languish in backlog-hell.
Helping pair developers with high impact tools looking to build a more resilient development team.

Contact

#wmcdg^connect is the interim channel on IRC.

Initially interested members

Only two members (the "primary contacts") will need to be identified to the Foundation per policy.

Already identified/happy to be publicly identified — TheresNoTime (talk • they/them) 02:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Seddon (talk) 02:38, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Happy to be identified (and, in a sense, I already am), although I'm willing to let someone older take up on that. Chlod (say hi!) 06:37, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Lectrician1 (talk) 03:34, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Remagoxer (talk) 05:19, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
MPGuy2824 (talk) 05:36, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
–Novem Linguae (talk) 05:59, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
EpicPupper (talk) 06:29, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Already identified, and able to help if needed. Zppix (talk) 14:13, 25 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]