> As a sort of compromise, maybe we could write up a list of new features > MediaWiki administrators would find useful a month before the release is > planned. By that time, we've got a very good idea of what is going to > be in it.
This seems like a good idea. Even if we never follow through with every plan, the primary reason I think we need something like this is so administrators can see what we're thinking about doing, and (possibly) provide feedback on that. For example, if a sysadmin sees that OAuth is on the list, they may come and say "This is awesome. You guys should totally do OAuth." or something along those lines. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | [email protected] On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/16/2012 11:45 AM, Tyler Romeo wrote: > > There should be some general > > idea of at least what is planned for a release before the code is > actually > > written. > > This would mean getting any non-WMF contributors (the volunteers) to > spec out what they planned to work on before hand and be committed to > actually delivering it. > > I'm not sure that is realistic. > > It is realistic is getting a schedule for WMF-sponsored work, but a good > deal of that is not going to interest the average MW admin since it is > focused on Wikipedia. > > As a sort of compromise, maybe we could write up a list of new features > MediaWiki administrators would find useful a month before the release is > planned. By that time, we've got a very good idea of what is going to > be in it. > > It could be that I'm just too pessimistic, but I think that comes from > my introduction to the term "Cookie-Licking". > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
