Wikimedia Treats Their Operations Like Their Projects 33
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from the innovative-shenanigans dept.
from the innovative-shenanigans dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Wikimedia Foundation is now treating their infrastructure like one of their projects, in that volunteers can edit it. Thanks to Wikimedia Labs, the volunteers can make changes to the infrastructure via puppet and git. After code review, changes can be deployed to production. After years of having no new root or shell-level volunteers, it's now possible for anyone to contribute to how Wikimedia projects are run from an infrastructure perspective."
Not a free-for-all (Score:4, Informative)
Any changes to the infrastructure need to get reviewed by someone in the Wikimedia Operations staff prior to actually going live, and they tend to be pretty careful about letting things through. Here's the list of changes awaiting review [wikimedia.org], along with discussion of each proposed change in many cases.