I want to thank the Collaboration team for taking this brave step - and yes, it's a brave step. The natural trajectory of large projects that don't quite seem to meet their promise is to keep going and going until everyone is burnt out, and it is courageous to say "this isn't going where we wanted it to" and break that cycle. Most of the people who are currently involved in Flow and the Collaboration team were not there when it started, and they joined a project that had very mixed levels of support that had very challenging and broad objectives. We as a community can learn a lot from their experience, and we really should make an effort to examine this project and use this experience to re-examine and improve the process of developing new software.
I am certain once the team has a chance to refocus, they may choose to examine workflows that are common across multiple Wikimedia projects that would benefit from improvement. Off the top of my head, creating a "deletion" wizard in collaboration with a couple of large Wikipedias might be a starting point. I suspect that the Collaboration team and the Community Tech team will find many overlaps in their work as they go forward. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
