Happy new year, EE.
How is the Newsletter extension coming along? The most recent discussion on the talk page
appears to be from September.
Thanks,
Pine
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:01:07 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
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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
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.
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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(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Editor Engagement <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [EE] Newsletters
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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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?
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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Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/