On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Brian Gerstle <bgers...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > TL;DR; this discussion is great, but I think moving to docs/wikis/etc. > instead of continuing the thread could improve communication and give the > people who end up working on this something to reference later. could just > be my n00b-ness, but I thought others might share the sentiment. > > I'm still new here, so please excuse me for possibly going against > convention, but does anyone else think it would be beneficial to move this > problem & proposal into a living document (RFC, wiki, google doc, > whatever)? In doing so, I hope we can: > > 1. Keep track of what the actual problems are along with the proposed > solution(s) > 2. Group related concerns together, making them easier for those voicing > them to be heard while also facilitating understanding and resolution > 3. Give us something concrete to go back to whenever we decide to > dedicate resources to solving this problem, whether it's the next mobile > apps sprint or something the mobile web team needs more urgently > 4. Prevent the points raised in the email (or the problem itself) from > being forgotten or lost in the deluge of other emails we get every day > > I don't know about you, but I can't mentally juggle the multiple problems, > implications, and the great points everyone is raising—which keeping it in > an email forces me to do. > > Either way, looking forward to discussing this further and taking steps to > solve it in the near term.
+1 This sort of major design change is exactly the sort of thing that I think the RfC process is good at helping with. Start with a straw man proposal, get feedback from other engineers and iterate before investing in code changes. The sometime frustrating part is that feedback doesn't always come as fast as Product and/or the team would like but we can try to accelerate that by promoting the topic more often. Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
