+1 Such a rule would seem rather misguided...
-bawolff On 2013-05-06 6:58 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/06/2013 05:26 PM, Aaron Pramana wrote: > > Brian Wolff <bawolff <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > >> > >> On 2013-05-06 1:31 PM, "Quim Gil" <qgil <at> wikimedia.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 05/06/2013 05:41 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > >>>> > >>>> A few people have started to organize the various bug reports about > >>>> watchlists, but there is still much to do before we have a clear & > >>>> prioritized vision of what the watchlist feature should become. > >>> > >>> > >>> fwiw I had already suggested a Bug Day focusing on the Watchlist > > feature. > >> If this is considered useful Andre could schedule it whenever > appropriate. > >>> > >>> > >>>> Therefore, if a few developers could declare their interest in > >>>> tackling the watchlist issue in the foreseeable future, it would help > >>>> arouse interest and enthusiasm from users, and motivate them to > >>>> organize user research in order to design a better watchlist feature. > >>>> > >>>> I don't think we need a formal pledge or commitment; a simple > >>>> declaration of interest would imho be enough to get started. The > >>>> specifics can be ironed out later. > >>> > >>> > >>> Sounds like an entry to > >> > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_proj > > ectsmight > >> help as soon as there is a broad idea of what needs to be done. > >> > >> What happened to last years gsoc project in this area? Are there people > >> working on getting it merged? > >> > >> -bawolff > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > Last year, I worked on making improvements to the watchlist feature as my > > project for GSoC. The changes I made are still available as an unmerged > > change in Gerrit. [1] I'm glad to see that the project is starting to > gain > > momentum. A major limitation of my efforts last year was that, under GSoC > > rules, I was the only developer who was allowed to code for the project. > > Aaron, can you point me to that rule? I am nearly certain that you are > wrong. > > > Now > > that other developers are looking to work on the project, I think that a > > project of this size has a much better chance of succeeding. Watchlist > > improvements as a project is extremely susceptible to feature creep, and > > unless there is a well-defined plan from the start, it risks getting > shelved > > entirely. A blog of my progress last summer is available for ideas. [2] > > > > I'd recommend fixing feature request bugs as a large coordinated > overhaul of > > the watchlist, rather than a piecemeal approach that may result in > > duplicative code or work that gets scrapped soon after it is finished. > > > > I may be unavailable intermittently for the next 6 weeks, but I should be > > able to help out from the middle of June until early September. > > > > -Aaron > > > > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16419/ > > [2] http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Engineering Community Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > 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
