Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-02-02 Thread bawolff
In regards to follow-up on the meeting about code review - That's partially my bad that there hasn't been any yet. During the meeting I said that I would pursue exploring the various options discussed, nag people, start further discussions and try to ensure the ball kept rolling. However, I

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-02-02 Thread Rob Lanphier
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wrote: > Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of > the Developer Summit? > I would love for the working group chairs to make the outcomes available from the main WikiDev16 page:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-02-02 Thread bawolff
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Rob Lanphier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of >> the Developer Summit? >> > > I would love for the working group

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-02-02 Thread Pine W
Hi Rob, Code review seems to be a choke point and the subject of numerous concerns, so I'd like to see SMART goals for improvements to code review, and one or more individuals (probably WMF individuals) taking leadership for meeting those goals. Perhaps the conversation at the Summit will inform

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-02-01 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 14:57 -0800, Pine W wrote: > Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the > outcomes of the Developer Summit? I'm not aware of a page but summaries for specific tracks or sessions can be found in the corresponding Phabricator tasks:

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2016-01-28 Thread Pine W
Hi Quim, Is there, or will there be, a page somewhere that describes the outcomes of the Developer Summit? Thanks! Pine On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:19 AM, Quim Gil wrote: > The Winter break took longer than expected. Busy times! > > You can help develop the next summary. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-04 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > That way people can get the information from the nicely-formatted > source without simultaneously being lured by a not-as-nicely formatted > source. Why is that better than making both sources nicely formatted? All it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-04 Thread Nick Wilson (Quiddity)
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > > > That way people can get the information from the nicely-formatted > > source without simultaneously being lured by a not-as-nicely

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-04 Thread Kevin Smith
The wiki view is vastly better than the email body. My perception is that this summary is not "What developer relations has been doing", but rather "if you're a developer here's stuff that might interest you". With that filter, it made much more sense. Kevin Smith Agile Coach, Wikimedia

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-04 Thread Oliver Keyes
Well, when the message doesn't adapt to the medium, it's of limited utility to argue the problem is the medium. You can argue as long as you want, just don't expect it to change ;) It seems like an easy resolution to this would be to just point people at the wiki. So instead of sending

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Bartosz Dziewoński
On 2015-12-03 01:33, Gergo Tisza wrote: (I wouldn't mind if the email would be HTML as well but there are usually people who dislike that.) This list strips HTML formatting. -- Bartosz Dziewoński ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Tony Thomas
I am positive that people will be subscribing to a newsletter with the name 'Developer Relations Weekly Summary' soon, which will send the Echo notifs, and people do directly look at the wiki page :) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter Thanks, Tony Thomas

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Oliver Keyes
My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same. On 3 December 2015 at 07:50, Quim Gil wrote: > Thank you for your

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Oliver Keyes
Point! On that front it is much improved; thank you :) On 3 December 2015 at 11:20, Quim Gil wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: >> My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the >> email so we don't have to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Quim Gil
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote: > My feedback last time was "could you put some of the content in the > email so we don't have to open 15 links to find out what's going on? > Some of this is pretty contextless". This looks pretty much the same. Actually

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-03 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Bartosz Dziewoński wrote: > This list strips HTML formatting. Looks like we identified the root problem then. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-02 Thread Dan Garry
On 27 November 2015 at 11:32, Oliver Keyes wrote: > This is a very long list of individual links. Could you quickly > summarise in text what the team has been working on and what they will > be next? I agree with this. The weekly update email, as currently structured, is

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-12-02 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > I agree with this. The weekly update email, as currently structured, is > pretty much unreadable for me. A short summary would work better for me. > You can click the first link and read the wiki version, where all the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-11-27 Thread Oliver Keyes
This is a very long list of individual links. Could you quickly summarise in text what the team has been working on and what they will be next? On 27 November 2015 at 11:36, Quim Gil wrote: > Original version: >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-11-05 Thread Magnus Manske
That "Wikimedia UI" thing looks good! Except it seems to require third-party javascript (myfontastic?), which is not allowed on Tools Labs, IIRC. And it wants to run Flash. Why??? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:33 PM Quim Gil wrote: > Original web version: > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-10-22 Thread Pine W
Hi Quim, I'm glad to see the tasks about 3D files in there. Open license 3D files were a need mentioned at WCONUSA for GLAMs. There has been a lot of discussion recently about the Education Exension's problems. Any chance of getting Developer Relations resources in making that code at least

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-10-22 Thread bawolff
> There has been a lot of discussion recently about the Education Exension's > problems. Any chance of getting Developer Relations resources in making > that code at least secure and maintainable enough to keep it deployed on > its current wikis in the short term and in order to buy some time for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-10-22 Thread Andre Klapper
Hi, On Thu, 2015-10-22 at 08:23 -0700, Pine W wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion recently about the Education Exension's > problems. Any chance of getting Developer Relations resources in making > that code at least secure and maintainable enough to keep it deployed on > its current

Re: [Wikitech-l] Developer Relations Weekly Summary

2015-10-08 Thread Pine W
Thanks Quim, I like the summary. Code review is a particular interest of mine and I'm glad to see some stats mentioned here. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 3:03 AM, "Quim Gil" wrote: > We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news > related to the areas