On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote:
> In my perspective, there should be two things on this list: > > * Invitations to test new features. "Testing" in this case is > something that can be done by somebody who is an end user who has an > "early adopter" character and who is curious about technologies, but > who is not necessarily a developer. The new feature must be set up > online somewhere: in labs, as an opt-in feature in an existing > Wikipedia or Wikisource, in translatewiki.net or some other site. It > usually shouldn't be needed to install software on your own computer > to test features announced here - installing MediaWiki is too hard for > non-developer users. Announcement of Visual Editor features > deployments in Meta is a good example of this. > > * Announcements about new features that break existing gadgets, > templates, features or content in existing projects, and require > change in their code. The change is not necessarily something that the > ambassador can do himself or understand completely, because the > ambassador is not necessarily a coder, but it must be something that > the ambassador must be able to convey to the techie types in his > community. The announcement of the $.browser deprecation by Krinkle a > few days ago is a good example of this. > I would add announcements about new features which are available or can be requested (e.g. "from today wikis can request ArticleFeedback to be turned on"). I would prefer not to have discussions here (with the exception of meta-discussions about the list itself, like this one); there are several channels for that already, and keeping the list low-traffic, high-relevance is much more valuable. On the other hand, pointers to discussions in other places (about how upcoming features should work, for example) would be useful.
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