On 04/09/2013 12:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > 2013/4/9 Steven Walling <[email protected]>: >> One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech >> Ambassadors mailing list. I hope that mailing list grows and can be the >> place where we make announcements that should be communicated widely.
I'd like to second this. More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors > Yes, that, but to make it really useful testing environments must be set up. > > Every email to that mailing list must have a tl;dr version that MUST > have the following two things: > 1. A two-line-max description of the feature that is going to be deployed. > 2. A link to a working testing environment where the feature can be > tested. It can be labs or something like test.wikipedia. Or a feature > can be available using a preference which is off be default. > > Let people test - and make it easy. I agree that emails to wikitech-ambassadors should definitely have a short, plain-English "how this affects you" summary. A link to a place to test also sounds ideal. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
