(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_…
(Or
http://bit.ly/19CKsqf if the link is broken)
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil