On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:40 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Someone asked me about LiquidThreads and I pointed them to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LiquidThreads_3.0 only to realize that the current timeline on that page reads "August 2011".
Is there an updated status for LiquidThreads? I vaguely recall some e-mail saying it wasn't going to be a priority in 2012, but I don't really remember. If someone knows and could update this list or that page, that'd be awesome.
I know we *want* to prioritize it, with a basic plan that looks roughly like: * design a global notification system for it to hook into [1] * strip a lot of stuff down * build it back up but more awesome
[1] I've got some draft notes on low-level notification frameworks up at < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Notification_framework%3... and Brandon's currently working on some UX designs. We had a nice chat with Wikia folks recently about their 'message wall' system which internally is similar to many parts of LQT, but has a nicer notification experience, and hope to steal some ideas from there (though we probably can't take implementation easily as a lot of their code is mixed up with other extensions).
As for dates and how many / which devs will be assigned to it I can't say, but it all ties in with just about every other "new editor retention" project. (For instance MoodBar's comments need a better way to get replies and notify the original poster about it.)
-- brion