One problem is that the necessity to link to a working test environment does not allow to develop ideas with the community before they are implemented.
2013/4/9 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > 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. > > 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. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Project director Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
