Hello all, I'm finishing up the evaluation portion of my API client library internship project. As a part of that, I'm making sure that feedback/bug reports/feature requests end up where they should be. I made several suggestions at the end of the pywikibot-core evaluation,[1] and have been linking bugzilla issues to some of the criteria. I also left comments on the documentation RFC [2] with the documentation-related suggestions. This leaves a handful of larger-scale/general/structural suggestions for change: * As of 25 July 2014, there are 105 open patches in gerrit. The patch review process should be streamlined and/or prioritized to reduce the backlog of unreviewed patches. * Iterating over a list and calling the API for each item is an inefficient use of API calls. Pywikibot could be made more efficient by combining API calls as much as possible (e.g. using generators and combining resultstitle=title1|title2|...). One option may be a constructor method that collects Page requests and enables larger, less frequent API calls. * The initial installation process features a series of obscure options and confusing installation documentation. Redesign the initial installation/configuration process to be lighter-weight, soliciting and valuing feedback from new or one-time users in the redesign process. Is it necessary to be logged in before `import pywikibot` will not cause an error? * Foster a hospitable attitude on pywikipedia-l, especially to new and/or inexperienced users. Consider agreeing on community standards for interaction; the Hacker School social rules[3] may be a useful starting point. Is Bugzilla the best place for these? Would these be useful to discuss at the pywikibot hackathon at Wikimania? Is there somewhere else these suggestions ought to go? -Frances [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Evaluations/Pywikibot#Sugges… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Documentation_RFC#Suggestio… from pywikibot gold-standard evaluation [3] https://www.hackerschool.com/manual#sec-environment _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l