On 2013-03-22 9:37 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"), > > improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS") > > This may sound naive, but why are "improvements of existing features" > discarded? My thinking was that, if the student didn't have to start > from scratch, they would have more time to polish their work and make > it fit with our strict standards, hence making it more likely for > their work to be merged and deployed. > > (Of course, the existing code needs to be good enough not to require a > complete rewrite, but that could be decided on a case-by-case basis.) > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I think improvement to exidting features are fine, but it should be existing features that are used by (or have a high potential of being) used by the wmf. If its a feature not used by wikimedia, it should have an extremely high impact on third parties to compensate. -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
