On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
ChrisiPK wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
FYI I have an interest in improving several
things for Commons. Some things
are waiting for adoption for over a year and I am not done waiting.
So do I and I think we need to make some sort of summary what we actually want
to do. I have tried this by creating a proposal on the strategy wiki[1], but
there has not been an awful lot of input over there. If you know a better
place where such discussion should take place, please let me know.
Also some sort of watchlist would be nice where suggested improvemets are
listed, among with improvements awaiting implementation and so on.
Thanks and regards,
ChrisiPK
There is
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bugs listing a good
number of things that we want.
If Howie is going to work "improving commons" I hope him to cut down
that list, instead of working on a new feature that he thought might be
neat.
I'm not trying to discourage new ideas, they wouldprobably be good. But
I see that the Foundation POV of the issues needing tech attention is
often different than the one seen from the community, since the work for
many hires surprise me. For example, I don't think that working on
LiquidThreads would have been pointed as a priority by many members (the
current system is "not too broken").
Strategy intends to learn which things are important, but just having a
developer coming to the Village Pump to implement whatever the local
community needs [and is reasonable] could make a difference. It wouldn't
be appropiate for Big Changes, but would give an easy say for many small
changes that may simply annoy them. Making volunteers happy is
important, too.
Rather than having developers visit village pumps on various projects,
it would be good for a standard and well-advertised technical forum to
be set up somewhere (
mediawiki.org, meta) to discuss feature requests
from the community and help communicate community desires and
priorities to the developer community. Bugzilla sort of serves that
purpose now, but I know that many people are intimidated by that
format and it isn't well suited for general consensus gauging
discussions.
-Robert Rohde