Well in that case I might as well start working on a HotCat extension...
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
+wiki tech On 17 Jul 2013 17:39, "Jared Zimmerman" jared.zimmerman@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Yuvi,
the link got stripped from the mailing list email but its here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Experiments Mark Holmquist is the dev on the feature.
Currently Mark is working on the Beta Experiments framework (nothing to do with HotCat, yet or planned) The first experiment will be an updated gallery control that is part of the upcoming Multimedia improvements lead by Fabrice.
However once the framework is in place it should be much easier for designer and developers to create experiments on the desktop site. Unlike gadgets the plan is that code goes into Beta, is validated, feedback is given from the community and its either scrapped, iterated, or integrated, rather than stagnating in gadgets forever.
You can see in the image on the feature page above some hints at other ideas we have for experiments in the future.
Let me know if you have bandwidth or 20% time to participate in working with the design team to either create new experiments or help migrate some of the more established gadgets into the Beta Experiments environment.
Jared
*Jared Zimmerman * \ Director of User Experience \ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman< https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman%3E
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipanda@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jon Robson jdlrobson@gmail.com wrote:
He says: "HotCat is number one on my list of gadgets to get some UX love and turn into a beta experiment... If everything goes well while its in experiments then it gets integrated into core extensions. Mark H. is coding the desktop beta experiments framework right now (literally while I write this email)"
Can you explain what this means? Is hexmode writing HotCat? Is he writing a framework to enable experiments on desktop? Was that discussed / announced anywhere?
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