Community Tech/Maintenance

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These projects are developed according to the processes described on Development subpage.

Each project has a current maintenance status assigned to it, which doesn't include the maintenance work we do in our volunteering capacity. We review the status at least annually, when the stability of a project changes or interest to refocus on projects has been expressed by the community. We looked at standards for maintenance across other teams to come up with this approach and introduced these 4 maintenance status. To achieve an approach for deciding on the maintenance status of each project, we tried to focus on usage metrics, but also number of contributions to a project in terms of tickets or patches, which we visualised in this dashboard. The idea behind this table is to be fully transparent about our decision making, considering our head count and product focus.

See also the UptimeRobot status of all of our tools.

Status Bug triaging Development Code review Further Notes
Active Development Yes with prioritization Lead by PM with UX resources Per statement This is a wish we are currently implementing.
Active Maintenance Yes with prioritization Bug fixing and small improvements, no new feature requests. Per statement We worked on this recently and we will make sure it stays stable.
Passive Maintenance No Only fixing "Unbreak Now" bugs Yes but not prioritized We worked on this a while ago, it is complete work, but we want to make sure it stays running.
Unmaintained by CommTech No No No This means we are still available for advice on talk pages and people can rewish to refocus on this project. When assigning this status it means that the work is complete and there is very little maintenance required. We would like to help you deploy things if you need us. This means we would be happy to assign a maintainer to it, if someone is interested, otherwise we'll try our best to keep it alive.
Documentation Maintenance
Type Project User Sysadmin Developer Issues Discussion Key Metric Maintenance status
bot Popular pages bot Yes Yes No Issues Discussion Contributions (config edits) Passive Maintenance
tool CopyPatrol Yes No No Issues Discussion Usage/Open Ticket Count Active Maintenance
tool Pageviews Analysis Yes Outdated Yes Issues Discussion Usage (Open Ticket Count Active Maintenance
tool XTools Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Usage/Open Ticket Count Active Maintenance
ext GlobalPreferences Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count/Patch Count Passive Maintenance
ext CodeMirror Partial Yes Yes Issues Project / Extension Open Ticket Count/Patch Count Active Maintenance
ext LoginNotify No Yes Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count/Patch Count Passive Maintenance
tool IA Upload Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Usage/Open Ticket Count Unmaintained by CommTech
tool Database reports N/A Yes Yes Discussion Usage ([1][2][3][4]) Passive Maintenance
core Numerical sorting N/A Yes Yes Discussion Not applicable Unmaintained by CommTech
ext Page Assessments No Yes Yes Issues Discussion Usage (Dependencies) Active Maintenance
tool SVG Translate Yes No Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count/Usage Active Maintenance
ext TemplateWizard Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count/Patch Count Passive Maintenance
bot Commons deletion bot No No Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count Passive Maintenance
tool Event Metrics Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Not applicable Passive Maintenance
tool Wikisource Export Yes Yes No Issues 1st project / 2nd project Open Ticket Count Active Maintenance
tool Who Wrote That? No N/A Yes Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count Active Maintenance
core Watchlist Expiry Yes No N/A Issues Discussion Open Ticket Count Passive Maintenance
ext Wikimedia OCR Yes Yes Yes Issues Open Ticket Count Passive Maintenance
ext Realtime Preview Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Usage vs. other preview types Active Maintenance
ext Phonos Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Active Maintenance
ext Better Diffs Yes No No Issues Discussion Active Maintenance
gadget AutosuggestSitelink Yes N/A Yes Issues Discussion Active Maintenance
tool WikiWho Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Active Maintenance
core Edit Recovery Yes Yes Yes Issues Discussion Active Development
core Multiblocks No No No Issues Discussion Active Development
gadget Wishlist Intake[1] No No Yes Issues Discussion Active Development

Notes

  1. This is a short-term project to be replaced by mw:Extension:CommunityRequests