I'll be following up on a separate message.

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Corey Floyd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have the same question as Sam, are we officially supposed to be doing
> this type of work internally?
>
> If so, Do we have a services engineer for the reading team? Or if not, do
> we have an open rec?
>
> it would be nice to have a resource dedicated for this work (we are
> developing a rendering service for apps as well) preferably embedded in the
> reading team since we have so many service needs.
>
> It would be nice to lock these things down while the reorg is still
> "flexible".
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Sam Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's great to see this written down. I'd assumed that the Mobile Web
>> *teams* were now responsible for maintaining those extensions and had
>> been triaging bugs that landed in the mediawiki-extension-MobileFrontend
>> and mobile-web projects as such.
>>
>> Max: would you be up for a doing a techmosis – a recored presentation –
>> covering all of those features? Specifically, I'd like to hear the areas
>> that need improving.
>>
>> –Sam
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all -
>>>
>>> Max Semenik, now on Search & Discovery (he's been working on geo stuff
>>> for a while), spoke with me earlier today about transferring
>>> Reading-oriented extension components / API endpoints off his plate. I'll
>>> add the bullet points to the Etherpad for the recurring APIs/Services
>>> meeting instance tomorrow.
>>>
>>> * API action=mobileview : the apps are heavy users of this endpoint.
>>>
>>> * pageimages extension: Max noted that the algorithm needs improvement
>>> for targeting the "best" image.
>>>
>>> * featuredfeeds extension (RSS/Atom)
>>>
>>> * TextExtracts is still an open question. Max said he can maintain it in
>>> maintenance mode, if necessary. But if there's interest in Reading taking
>>> over future work on this, that would be even better. Max noted the
>>> persistence of the results is an area for improvement. Incidentally, some
>>> people have been communicating about this stuff today.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> -Adam
>>>
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>>
>
> --
> Corey Floyd
> Software Engineer
> Mobile Apps / iOS
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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