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> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:01:07 -0700
> From: Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org>
> To: ee@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
> Message-ID: <5239F873.9050904@wikimedia.org>
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> On 09/17/2013 12:40 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > On 09/17/2013 01:19 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
> >> Do you think that the amount and complexity of work of
> >>
> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter
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> >> fits with an internship or an Individual Engagement Grant project (3
> >> months of one person approx)
> >
> > Hard to say. It depends on:
> >
> > * how well architected it is
> > * how integrated it is into Echo and Flow (of course, before the project
> > is funded, it would be good to check on how it relates to their current
> > roadmap, but it may be it makes sense for planning to adopt Flow late)
> > * how much of the wishlist is considered hard requirements
> > * last, but not least, how experienced the developer is with the MW
> > codebase and Wikimedia community
> >
> > If they have at least some experience with the MW code base and
> > Wikimedia community, they can probably delivery something useful in
> > three months. How it fits into a bigger roadmap is another story.
>
> Ok, so we seem to have these sequential questions:
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> 1. Do the Echo / Flow / Core Features / Growth teams think that a
> Newsletters extension is compatible with their plans or is there a
> reason to block it?
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> 2. Is there someone willing to mentor or provide technical guidance for
> this project?
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> 3. Can this project be sliced in a way that an internship / IEG project
> could deliver a solid first version?
>
> Let's find the answer to 1 first.
>
> PS: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43840 seems to be a
> good report related to this discussion. Otherwise I will create one.
>
> --
> Quim Gil
> Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:23:09 -0700
> From: Steven Walling <swalling@wikimedia.org>
> To: Editor Engagement <ee@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
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> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Quim Gil <qgil@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > 1. Do the Echo / Flow / Core Features / Growth teams think that a
> > Newsletters extension is compatible with their plans or is there a reason
> > to block it?
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> The only reason to block this is if it did not deliver newsletters in a way
> compatible with Echo and Flow. Otherwise it's a great idea, much desired by
> the community in a variety of use cases (WikiProjects, Tech News, etc.). I
> say go for it.
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>
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> Steven Walling
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/
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