jayvdb added a comment. The pywikibot userbase doesnt neatly overlap with those. e.g. When pywikibot devs are planning a breaking change, say for example the switch from using library `httplib2` to `requests` (the last big breaking change, and it caused quite a mess), it isnt relevant to Wikimedia editors, so https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/user-notice/ isnt appropriate according to the definition of that tag. However it effects `pywikibot` **users**, which is usually only a few people per wiki, some of which are sysadmins , some are developers, but those tags are not relevant either according to the definition of them. The sysadmin tag is probably the closest match, but it is only relevant for some of our announcements. e.g. if we break the APISite.upload method API slightly (which is currently being considered), sysadmins and the typical prepackaged script user doesnt care, but anyone using that method in custom code may need to make slight alterations.
I havent looked closely at the workflows the existing tags use, however roughly what I have in mind is three columns: 1. concept work / early developments that __may__ need to be announced 2. code about to be merged which __does__ need to be announced, possibly with multiple announcements depending on the scale of the change 3. a 'Done' column for when the announcements have hit the audience sufficiently that most users have been effectively warned about the change. Announcements would go out on the pywikibot-announce list, and/or possibly a MassMessage for the specific users who subscribe to these announcements. I dont believe we've got the capacity to manage a newsletter, or even work closely with the TechNews team except for very large breakages that impact wiki processes (e.g. T101214: Decommission compat <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101214> kills processes in production on wikis, in turn impacting users who've never opened a text editor in their life). TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101590 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: jayvdb Cc: valhallasw, Liuxinyu970226, pywikibot-bugs-list, Aklapper, jayvdb, Jdforrester-WMF, Krenair, Malyacko _______________________________________________ pywikibot-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot-bugs
