Re: [Wikimania-l] Developer's Q/A - meet that hackers at Wikimania
2011/1/20 Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de: So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can ask questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so everyone has a chance to attend. The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly idea? It's an excellent idea, but it may be a bit hard to implement. There are a dozen or so bugs in Bugzilla which are very important to me, and i think that they are quite important for the whole WM community and i keep wondering when will they finally be fixed. But dozens of other people have dozens of other bugs which are important to them. Put them all in one room with a few developers, and most likely a very little fraction of the people's questions will be answered. It doesn't mean that such a session shouldn't be held, but this problem should be kept in mind. One idea is to prepare the people who will participate in it that it will be a very first-come-first-served thing and to tell the people to prepare their questions precisely (e.g. to have the bug number) or maybe even to submit their questions in advance. Also, there can be a kind of a preparatory lecture explaining how the developers work in general, how do they decide on which bugs to work, etc. ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
Re: [Wikimania-l] Developer's Q/A - meet that hackers at Wikimania
Hi Daniel, On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Daniel Kinzler dan...@brightbyte.de wrote: Hello all As you probably know, this year's Wikimania will again feature hacking days (which I help to organize), just before Wikimania proper. However, the current setup is missing an opportunity for developers and chapter people to get together and talk about what the community wants and needs. So, I would like to propose to have a Q/A session where the community can ask questions to developers. I'd like to do this during Wikimania proper, so everyone has a chance to attend. The question is: are people interested? Or is it just my silly idea? Not a silly idea at all, on the contrary. I have fond memories of the Commons meeting in Paris where the techies and the non-techies sat together and made things go forward. So please, go ahead in organizing this, I think it's a great and potentially extremely interesting opportunity to make sure that the contributors feel heard by the developper community and vice-versa. Delphine -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org ___ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
