[Redirecting conversation about VisualEditor to wikitech-l; wikitext-l is for parser and Parsoid discussion.]
On 3 November 2014 05:18, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Parsoid & VisualEditor crew, > > Google Code-In (GCI) will soon take place again - a contest for 13-17 > year old students to contribute to free software projects. > > Wikimedia wants to take part again. > Last year's GCI results were surprisingly good - see > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in_2013 > [Snip] > * Open VisualEditor tickets created in the last six months (if I got > your products and components right): > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=[Bug%20creation]&chfieldfrom=-6m&keywords=easy&keywords_type=nowords&resolution=---&product=VisualEditor Corrected link (in front-end we use ASSIGNED to mean "accepted"): https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=ASSIGNED&chfield=%5BBug%20creation%5D&chfieldfrom=-6m&keywords=easy&keywords_type=nowords&list_id=356403&product=VisualEditor&resolution=--- > * Zero existing VisualEditor "easy" tickets (are they still valid? Are > they really self-contained, non-controversial issues with a clear > approach? Could some of them be GCI tasks that you would mentor? If so, > please tag them as described above!): > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=easy&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&product=VisualEditor Corrected link, per above: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=easy&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=356399&product=VisualEditor&query_format=advanced&resolution=--- — but there are still no such bugs > Could you imagine mentoring some of these tasks? > Unfortunately, I think the VisualEditor world is too complicated at this point to break off simple bugs without a lot more documentation (and this is reflected in the lack of bugs tagged as "easy"). We've talked about writing up a "crash course" to explain how things work, updating https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Software_overview and the like, but we're too far from that to be able to commit to GCI for this year, sorry. J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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