Hi folks,
Here are our notes from yesterday’s multimedia team meeting, when we planned our next development cycles.
We discussed our goals for the next 6-week cycle, as well as for subsequent cycles. We agreed to focus on wrapping up feature development and gradually releasing Media Viewer v0.2 in April/May, so we can move on to other important tasks on our roadmap.
To stay focused on this goal, we decided to devote the next 6-week cycle to completing final features for the first pilot release of Media Viewer v0.2 in the next cycle.
We will then switch our focus to Upload Wizard and Structured Data in the subsequent cycle, only fixing Media Viewer bugs as needed. We expect this new work to continue to be our main focus through the summer.
To make rapid progress on these important multimedia priorities, we may need to push back the next version of Media Viewer 0.3 to later in the year — or only do incremental work on it in the next quarters.
Our current goals for the next few cycles are outlined below — and you can read more on our meeting notepad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/multimedia-planning-meeting-2014-03-12
We welcome your comments, questions and suggestions about these proposed goals. We expect to adjust them periodically, based on this feedback and other factors.
Please respond by email for now. You can also post comments about Media Viewer on this discussion page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
Thanks as always for your constructive feedback, which is invaluable to us!
Best regards,
Fabrice on behalf of the Multimedia team
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MULTIMEDIA TEAM GOALS - NEXT CYCLES
Here are our proposed goals for the multimedia team’s next development cycles. (We define a cycle as a 6-week iteration, which includes 6 weekly sprints; it can also include one or more product releases).
We will be discussing these goals with community and team members in coming days. We expect to adjust them periodically, based on this feedback and other factors.
1. Goals for Current Cycle * Current Cycle started February 6, ends March 19 (second half of fiscal Q3). * Media Viewer v0.2 - Develop key features for pilot release in April * Analyze image load metrics, define acceptance criteria * Bugs & Technical Debt - Ongoing * See Mingle wall of tasks completed this cycle: http://ur1.ca/gtyvh
2. Goals for Next Cycle * Starts March 20, ends April 30 (first half of fiscal Q4). * Media Viewer v0.2 - Complete key features and launch tasks for April release * Release Media Viewer v0.2 in April/May (MW.org > small wikis > large wikis > all wikis) * Fix Media Viewer v0.2 Bugs (address most urgent community concerns) * Upload Wizard - Fix large bugs, collect metrics, unit tests, plan next steps * Bugs & Technical Debt - Ongoing * See Mingle wall: http://ur1.ca/gtvvr
3. Goals for Subsequent Cycle * Starts May 1, ends June 11 (second half of fiscal Q4) * Upload Wizard - improve UI design, incremental code refactoring, new features * Fix Media Viewer v0.2 Bugs (focus on most important community concerns) * Structured Data - start planning and first prototypes, with Wikidata and community * File Notifications - Your file was used * See Mingle wall: http://ur1.ca/gtyt3
4. Goals for 'Next-Subsequent' Cycle * Starts June 12, ends July 23 (first half of fiscal Q1) * Upload Wizard continued improvements and bug fixes, as needed * Structured Data - start implementation on Commons, with Wikidata and community * Fix Media Viewer v0.2 Bugs (focus on most important issues)
As time allows, we will consider incremental work on these goals throughout next year: * Media Viewer v0.3 - Develop new features (zoom, A/V support, plugins) * File Feedback - Develop positive feedback tool (Thanks, Watch or Favorite)
Useful links
* Multimedia Project Hub https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
* About Media Viewer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer
* Media Viewer Release Plan https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan
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Fabrice Florin Product Manager, Multimedia Wikimedia Foundation