On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:09:21 +1100, Tisza Gergő gtisza@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
In my perspective, there should be two things on this list:
- Invitations to test new features. "Testing" in this case is
something that can be done by somebody who is an end user who has an "early adopter" character and who is curious about technologies, but who is not necessarily a developer. The new feature must be set up online somewhere: in labs, as an opt-in feature in an existing Wikipedia or Wikisource, in translatewiki.net or some other site. It usually shouldn't be needed to install software on your own computer to test features announced here - installing MediaWiki is too hard for non-developer users. Announcement of Visual Editor features deployments in Meta is a good example of this.
- Announcements about new features that break existing gadgets,
templates, features or content in existing projects, and require change in their code. The change is not necessarily something that the ambassador can do himself or understand completely, because the ambassador is not necessarily a coder, but it must be something that the ambassador must be able to convey to the techie types in his community. The announcement of the $.browser deprecation by Krinkle a few days ago is a good example of this.
I would add announcements about new features which are available or can
be
requested (e.g. "from today wikis can request ArticleFeedback to be
turned
on").
I would prefer not to have discussions here (with the exception of meta-discussions about the list itself, like this one); there are
several
channels for that already, and keeping the list low-traffic,
high-relevance
is much more valuable. On the other hand, pointers to discussions in
other
places (about how upcoming features should work, for example) would be useful.
+1 x2
The purpose of the list over the wiki is that it is real time, and it is *push*, so ...
* Invitations / opportunities : including the priority of what is the next in the process, skills wanted, time requested, with whom you would be working : clear notices of where help or review is wanted by the general user and/or sysop, and clarity in the preferred means of reporting .. via bugzilla, via wikis, via ambassadors
* Context : wiki communities, as it would be great to see either languages and/or the sister communities represented, so there is some conduit through to the forums so they are kept informed. Sometimes the detail to understand the context of changes
I also agree about not wanting the list of NOTs that were expressed.
Regards, Andrew