Qgil added a comment. Thank you all for your thoughts and the illustrative patch. I spoke with @Jalexander a few hours ago, and we exchanged impressions about our respective top priorities. The further comments here are very helpful.
A summary that hopefully all we can agree on: * The Legalpad project is objectively urgent: there is an ongoing community process that needs it, and a board decision to fix this problem. However, due to several circumstances its push has been delayed, and now it is the Phabricator team who requests to wait a bit. We are in the middle of a Bugzilla and a RT migration that require all our focus and more, this is a declared WMF Engineering top priority, and the only sane approach is to put this task aside until we have completed Bugzilla-Migration. We are still hoping to finish by the end of this month, although we haven't committed to a specific date yet. * Today we can say that it is technically possible to provide the list with the details needed (say, for each entry Wikimedia username - Real name - Phabricator username - email). We just don't have the time right now to discuss and agree its details, but it looks like it shouldn't be rocket science. Patching upstream's Legalpad would be a short term solution creating a short term problem of maintenance. Since the use case is so unique for Wikimedia, it is unlikely that upstream will be interested in merging such patch, that we would need to maintain locally forever. Therefore, the best approach is an extension. * We can also talk about other features like inclusion in advanced search or triggering email notifications when a new users signs a legalpad (a feature that I could not find today via Herald or email preferences) but, again, not before the Bugzilla migration has been completed. Nobody wanted to arrive to this date without a Legalpad in full use, but this is where we got somehow. The Phabricator team requests the LCA team to wait just a few more weeks. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T607 REPLY HANDLER ACTIONS Reply to comment or attach files, or !close, !claim, !unsubscribe or !assign <username>. To: Qgil Cc: wikibugs-l, Qgil, Jalexander, mmodell, chasemp _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
