Last modified: 2013-06-03 08:34:21 UTC
Wikimedia's search services need a maintainer. There is already some effort toward this: <http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=ogk1Wfwh>. This bug is intended to track the issue, as I believe it to be a blocker of important bugs such as bug 42423.
(In reply to comment #0) > Wikimedia's search services need a maintainer. Correct, but I don't think that we should start tracking open positions as bug reports, otherwise we end up with a billion of "Project X needs [more] manpower" tickets. Once a maintainer is found s/he will likely find her/his way to the most severe MW/WM Search issues in Bugzilla. If not I am willing to help with searching.
(In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) >> Wikimedia's search services need a maintainer. > > Correct, but I don't think that we should start tracking open positions as > bug reports, otherwise we end up with a billion of "Project X needs [more] > manpower" tickets. I'm not sure I buy a slippery slope argument here. :-) We don't have the potential issue you're describing right now in Bugzilla and if it becomes an issue in this bug tracker (which seems unlikely), we can address it then. As for right now, we seem to be in the same situation we were in a few months ago. Ram has left and there doesn't seem to be a open position for search/Lucene at <https://jobs.wikimedia.org>. CC'ing Rob L. and CT.
Again, "Wikimedia's search services need a maintainer" is not a valid bug report as we don't handle WMF's Human Resources tasks in Bugzilla and don't plan to. I won't stop anybody from looking for a maintainer for project XY though. For this specific case: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-May/069668.html
