Hello Mathieu, <quote name="Mathieu Stumpf" date="2013-04-18" time="10:26:56 +0200"> > Le 2013-04-17 20:06, Greg Grossmeier a écrit : > >* Echo will be rolling out on en, de, and fr wiki next week on > >Thursday > > (the 25th) > > On all Mediawiki projects, or just on some of them like Wikipedia?
Just the English, German, and French Wikipedias. The Notifications (formerly "Echo") project team does a pretty good job of keeping this etherpad up to date with their planned deployments: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release > >Full roadmap at: > > > >https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoizbfxc5g6KdEkza0xkQnJlM0o0TXlwQXhDOUFvYnc#gid=0 > > Would it be possible to use free software solutions, which is not > the case of the google spreadsheet as far as I know. We (myself plus the Engineering Managers) were just talking about this yesterday during the Roadmap Update Meeting (the meeting that happens right before I send out this email). Robla has a very very rough script that will (hopefully, someday) convert the GDoc into a MediaWiki table that lives on mediawiki.org. He's only working at it sporadically, unfortunately. So, yes, we completely agree. From my understanding, the home of this information was previously a mediawiki.org table, but that became too unruly when the size of it and the number of people simultaneously editing it caused usability problems. I can safely say that we aren't happy with the non-Freeness of GDocs and we wish we didn't use it in this case, but it was a stop-gap solution, and we fully intend on something else (big F Free) replacing it when we know what will meet our needs. > Depending on > the feature needed, EtherCalc may be used instead of the current > solution. Other free/libre culture advocates, like the French > framasoft[2] network are already using it, see [3]. Wow! Thanks! I have to admit, I haven't put in any real time searching for a replacement, but these might be able to do it. I'll work on copying over the current version of the Roadmap to ethercalc today/tomorrow. Actually, if anyone wants to help: https://ethercalc.org/WMF_Engineering_Roadmap I *think* all of the content is copied over, but the formatting needs some work ;-). I didn't see an "import from CSV/xsl" function, but if I missed that, it might be worth a shot. No promises from our end, yet (as I don't know if we tried this already and decided against it for some reason), but this is a great option, thank you Mathieu! Greg -- | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
