(sorry, going through this thread that happened while I was on holidays)
On 07/28/2013 07:35 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:
On this topic, one thing that was brought up in the Board elections questions & answers was the (ongoing) need to triage feature requests by the community, including especially requests for features from experienced & admin users, and feature requests from the sister projects.
Yes!
One of the ideas in the candidate answers was to focus more on building a central place where feature requests (and cool existing tools) can be shared between language editions and projects, and where feature ideas could get refined outside of bugzilla & the lists;
http://bugzilla.mediawiki.org IS a central place to discuss feature requests. For higher level discussions there is http://mediawiki.org
Any reason for the projects not to embrace these existing channels?
another idea was to build a kind of technical committee to help collect and refine these ideas.
<prejudice>Technical committees have a tendency to become less technical or less committee than you wish.</prejudice> Any reasons for technical people in the projects not to jump in the Wikitech/MediaWiki common pool? I'd say that the ones that do don't regret it.
See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors & http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_development &
Then of course there is the actual technical work of addressing these requests.
I don't know if working on this would fit in with what any of the chapters are doing, but it does seem like a social/technical/community area that could use some energy.
Agreed. There are more than 5.000 open feature requests welcoming that kind of energy:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/report.cgi?x_axis_field=priority&y_axis_f...
(Or http://bit.ly/19CKsqf if the link is broken)