On 02/28/2013 04:03 PM, Jean-Frédéric wrote: Thinking of this email and the "lack of time" answers... Would it make sense to have periodical UX sprints where we would focus on certain item(s) at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_experience_review_queue Those sprints would be scheduled ahead and would be planned and promoted as group activities involving the developers of the features reviewed, members of this list and anybody else interested. A bit in the style of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Weekly_goals but starting with one sprint per month. This could raise the attention (and the fun) around this queue and our design related activities in general. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

On 03/01/2013 11:05 AM, Steven Walling wrote: Agreed. QA sprints are a way to recruit QA volunteers (not the only one) and UX sprints could be also one way to recruit volunteer designers. Maybe we can run those sprints at a community level, and if WMF designers have time to join - great. If not, no problem. Then again there is another problem: can WMF be a blocker of the UX review queue if there are not enough resources to keep it moving? Maybe those sprints could be useful to find out whether an item in that queue is good enough, or to discuss and file bugs about specific issues. For instance, in the case of the Commons gadgets waiting in the queue: wouldn't be useful to have a one week sprint to discuss and decide the quality of the proposals? What is the Commons community and the volunteering designers that joined share an opinion at the end of the week? No matter what is the outcome it would be probably better than keeping waiting. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

On 03/01/2013 02:05 PM, Steven Walling wrote: And what's wrong with a designer fulfilling part of their LevelUp requirement with things like this? Of course, that is not to say any given person has to. Matt Flaschen