Hi Quim I just posted an email titled "Silly question? Which list is meant for what?". I wonder if you would have the time to weigh in on that on the last point (2.a)) of the email.
Best regards, Rui 2014-05-20 16:39 GMT+02:00 Quim Gil <[email protected]>: > We are going to discuss Google Summer of Code and FOSS Outreach Program for > Women in 90 minutes at #wikimedia-office -- join us! > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings/2014-05-20 > On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, David Cuenca <[email protected]> wrote: > > this year in a Gsoc project, following a proposal by the student, we are > using a dedicated mailing list for his project. > > I understand why you are deciding to create a mailing list, but at the same > time I'm hoping that in the very near future situations like these can be > solved with Phabricator, the tool that is planned to deprecate Bugzilla, > Gerrit and several tools more. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator > > In fact, instead of creating a mailing list that will be surely ignored and > forgotten by the rest of the community, I encourage you to run your > short-term project with a clear deadline at http://fab.wmflabs.org/ > > In a Phabricator project all the discussions can be organized around tasks. > You can have a generic "Planning Project X" for the meta-discussion. This > will give you a space for discussion integrated with project planning and > code review. > > Phabricator allows you to assign tasks to more than one project, which > means that in our production instance you will be able to mark tasks as > bugs in other MediaWiki components. Another interesting feature is the > possibility for users to subscribe to keywords. This means that having a > task related to "Python" might bring the attention of other Python > developers, even if they had no prior idea about the existence of your > project. > > This way of working is a lot more efficient and sustainable than separate > mailing lists for projects. I encourage you to give it a try! For what is > worth, there is at least one GSoC project using Phabricator. > > Chemical Markup for Wikimedia Commons > http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/view/26/ > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
