2012/8/22 James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org:
However, I am worried that posting these here every two weeks might be a bit spammy, so I'd love feedback not just on the content (for which the best venue is the central feedback page[2]) but also as to whether you would value me doing this every fortnight (or perhaps less regularly?), or if there are better, or additional fora that might be suited to getting this information for users on the Wikimedia projects.
Posting fortnightly updates about the VisualEditor on this list is probably not too spammy, as long as the goal of this list is remembered: it's not so much for technologists, as it is for ambassadors. Telling people on this list about newly deployed features and inviting them to test them on a demo wiki every two weeks is very useful.
Updating about the C++ implementation of Parsoid is less useful, however. It is probably interesting to people on wikitech-l, but it doesn't have any immediate action item for the ambassadors - there's not much to pass on to their respective editing communities and there isn't anything to test. But something like this would be useful: "We rewrote the parser in C++, and it's supposed to be 40% faster now, so please come to test its performance and see if it still handles the features that your project needs correctly."
Hope it helps.
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