I've added my comment (what slows me down) : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661#5638835
Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:09 PM Birgit Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > (sorry for cross-posting!) > > > Hello all, > > We’re running a session at next week’s Wikimedia Technical Conference > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019> > around the topic: Developer Productivity and onwiki tooling - > userscripts, gadgets, templates, modules > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661>. > > For this we’re looking for more input from folks who won’t be at the > conference. > > The goal of the conference is to identify changes to tooling and processes > to support Wikimedia developers in working more efficiently. One aspect of > that is to explore what makes it currently difficult for technical > contributors working with templates, modules, userscripts and gadgets, and > to discuss what could be improved or done differently. > > It would be wonderful if you could share your experience and comment on > the following 2 questions in the phabricator ticket for the session > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234661> (or send me an email, and > we’ll add it to the phabricator ticket): > > 1. > > What is your background, what do you do as a technical contributor? > 2. > > In what way your productivity as a technical contributor is affected > in the context of on-wiki tooling (what slows you down, what makes your > life complicated, what helps you …)? > > To give you two examples (made-up): > > 1. > > I am a volunteer developer and have developed several user scripts for > frwiki. > 2. > > When I’ve developed a userscript, I don’t know how many people are > copying the code to use my script. When I make changes to the script, > others often still have older versions. When people report bugs, I need to > first find out which version they are using which is very time-consuming. > > > 1. > > I am a developer of Wikibase extension, WMDE staff member > 2. > > When I develop a new feature in Wikibase, I am often informed AFTER > the feature has been released that Wikidata gadgets had been broken. Then I > need to stop my current tasks, go back to my previous work and change the > feature. This makes the process of my work on new features longer. > > Many thanks for your support! > > The developer productivity and onwiki tooling session crew > > > -- > Birgit Müller (she/her) > Director of Technical Engagement > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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