On Apr 15, 2013 5:06 PM, "Denny Vrandečić" denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de wrote:
One problem is that the necessity to link to a working test environment does not allow to develop ideas with the community before they are implemented.
Nobody is asking of you to have a testable with every idea you bounce of the mailinglist, but this does ask for a testable setup at some point before implementing. I understand this is a pain, because it runs the risk of rejection after you put in enough effort to make a prototype. But better a community cry out at a proto than at a full implementation ready to merge into core.
In other words, all discussion is welcome, with or without proto, but don't expect final community buy in before we have been able to toy around with it.
2013/4/9 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
2013/4/9 Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com:
One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech Ambassadors mailing list. I hope that mailing list grows and can be
the
place where we make announcements that should be communicated widely.
Yes, that, but to make it really useful testing environments must be set up.
Every email to that mailing list must have a tl;dr version that MUST have the following two things:
- A two-line-max description of the feature that is going to be
deployed.
- A link to a working testing environment where the feature can be
tested. It can be labs or something like test.wikipedia. Or a feature can be available using a preference which is off be default.
Let people test - and make it easy.
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