2013/12/6 Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org
I think the Tech news page makes it simple enough to get involved and contribute: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute ; We also have a reasonably-stable schedule, so now we "just" need more people to give a hand. I'm actually drafting an overview of how Tech news works behind the scenes; I'll share it on this list when it's out.
Well actually, this reminds of the perennial "who should update the RELEASE-NOTES" discussion. It's hard to update it all the time in Gerrit, because it creates a lot of conflicts, so people don't do it and leave it to the release manager (or something along these lines).
The RELEASE-NOTES file should be useful for people who install MediaWiki on their servers. It isn't so useful for Wikipedia readers and editors. The Tech News should do the job of RELEASE-NOTES for Wikipedia readers and editors, and it's easy to update it because it's a wiki page. What can be suggested is that every time a significant feature that visibly affects end-users is merged, the developer who committed it should update the Tech News page, and before publishing Tech News a responsible editor (Guillaume?) should edit it and remove the less important things.
Of course, there are two problems: * What's a "significant feature that visibly affects end-users" * How to get developers not to forget to write that.
Quim, Guillaume - ideas on how to improve it?
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