Not that it matters but yes, I agree that the purpose of this task has been superseded by Gerrit-Migration. When this task was created, our brains were still filled with lots of question marks about the Bugzilla migration, several of them affecting a fuzzier Gerrit migration. The purpose was to have a high level overview of the work that would need to be done, well before a team would commit to start working on it.

As such, marking as done. If you're curious about "What needs to happen to get this done?" go to the Gerrit-Migration workboard.

In T584#1843538, @greg wrote:

So, I'm still not sure of the usefullness of this. The original intent, I believe, was to get an idea of how 'hard' it was going to be to do this. (iow: "We have 5 epics worth of work, that's 5 x $some_multiple so $some_number_of_months worth of work.") We (RelEng) aren't that sophisticated yet in our forecasting (shame on us, can we get a TPG team member on our team?) and we're plugging ahead (of course, with the RFC (T119908) leading us).

Given 1) the original intent, 2) the current reality of how RelEng works, and 3) the fact that the Gerrit-Migration project is (mostly) well groomed and (mostly) only contains real blockers of the migration... I recommend that this task be closed/resolved.

I will say, while I think this task ran it's course, it was useful and a lot of good work was done to get us to where we are now. Thanks all. :)

So, I'm still not sure of the usefullness of this. The original intent, I believe, was to get an idea of how 'hard' it was going to be to do this. (iow: "We have 5 epics worth of work, that's 5 x $some_multiple so $some_number_of_months worth of work.") We (RelEng) aren't that sophisticated yet in our forecasting (shame on us, can we get a TPG team member on our team?) and we're plugging ahead (of course, with the RFC (T119908) leading us).

Not all interns published their wrap-up reports. The lesson learnt here is that we should not officially "Pass" a project until wrap-up reports are complete and have been looked over by the mentors.

I agree. I made an attempt to dig up the final reports/blogposts for our OPW interns some time ago and added my findings to that page. I don't think there's a point pursuing this further.

I propose to resolve this task in whatever status it is by the end of this month.

At this point lists of blockers / blocked by in this task are quite arbitrary. If T584 is a good starting point then yes, by all means, let's close this task and let's be all subscribed to that one.

I posit that this task has become mostly non-useful and instead people who are interested in 'what's the plan to migrate to Differential from Gerrit' should look at the workdboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gerrit-migration/

In T717#1410967, @Mvolz wrote:

I'm wondering if maybe some students think they've met this requirement, or actually have already and it's not been recorded in the checklist?

I've not been checked off the list here, but I did both a wrap up report and a wrap up blog post at the time of the internship so I've largely thought this post did not apply to me, until I noticed my name wasn't checked off today.

In T717#1409576, @NiharikaKohli wrote:

Off topic question: @Qgil, in my experience students tend to stay involved for long with the same organization if they have the chance of participating again in the same organization. Although I like our policy about not accepting repeats, it does lead to more students wandering off to other organizations after the internship ends.

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/me is a victim of this one, but got into the program at the end :P. I'm liking it though :)
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I'm wondering if maybe some students think they've met this requirement, or actually have already and it's not been recorded in the checklist?

I think this questions deserves a mentor / community discussion. All Wikimedia policies can be changed by better Wikimedia policies if there is consensus. :)

In T717#1408072, @Qgil wrote:

What is missing to complete this wrap-up?

What is missing to complete this wrap-up? At this point, I think we just need to be pragmatic and take the quickest efficient way to solve this task.

Good point: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=FLOSS-Exchange&type=revision&diff=12417227&oldid=12417053

As this is resolved, an update on the status of the propriety project management tools used by WMF may be possible: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange#Wikimedia_Foundation