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
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:
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?
2. Is there someone willing to mentor or provide technical guidance for this project?
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.