Hi Designers (sorry, I'm going to continue using that ;-) ),
<quote name="Steven Walling" date="2013-08-22" time="17:29:36 -0700">
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Greg Grossmeier greg@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Which links to: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Project_Design_Review_Process
Is that page geared for consumption by third-party developers? Or just internal WMF documentation? Is it clear about what things you want from an eg extension author who wants their extension to be deployed on Wikimedia project sites?
If you check the history you can see that Brandon made this page as a proposal back in 2011. It is not particularly up to date or a reflection of input from the entirety of the current design team. We should have something like this though, at least for outlining how design review works for volunteer extensions/patches.
We have a number of extensions that are awaiting review and/or are starting the review process now. Having something I can point them to that says "think about these things in preparation for a formal design review" is really nice, especially given the fact that in many places we say "get the design review done as early as possible, preferably before any code is written."
Seems not nice to say that but then "we don't know what the review looks like". :/
Sorry, I'm channeling the feedback I'm getting from the community here.
Greg