On 07/31/2013 10:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I think it would be helpful, if possible, to give some guesstimates of > this, i.e.: how longer a wait it would cost us to reach some rank of > quality if the deployment was downscaled; or, what would be the > "deadline" for feedback on aspects X and Y to be actually able to be > processed and worked on, before previous development decisions become > irreversible or the developers move on to something else.
Is it even possible to quantify this without just pulling numbers out of one's ass? It's not just a matter of "10 times the number of users means 10 times the number of bugs found" since the /profile/ of the users changes drastically as well. For instance, allowing the VE only for registered editors is guaranteed to never reveal bugs/issues that only affects anonymous editing or interaction between anons and registered editors. Likewise, requiring opt-in or allowing opt-out changes the makeup of the users a great deal (the former making certain that only editors with at least some familiarity with how we work use it and thus preventing usability issues for "true newbies" from being found, the latter by allowing the more vocal and knowing segments of editors to "hide" the VE and no longer see issues they alone are well-equipped to notice or evaluate). -- Marc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
