On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Although, I will say its still kind of unclear what is
expected that
these types of developers will be doing at the summit. Officially,
The content of the Summit is derived from the proposals submitted discussed
well before the Summit. If a developer had topics to discuss before the
Summit, they will have topics to discuss during the Summit. However, if a
developer didn't have any topic to discuss before the Summit then indeed,
there is a likely chance that such developer will have an unclear role
during the event.
At least when it comes to the developers requesting travel sponsorship
(most volunteers not based in the San Francisco Bay Area), we are requiring
them to point out to proposals they are submitting or where they are
heavily involved. So you see, I think we have a system that works, open to
anyone but in practice unlikely to propitiate i.e. template editors lost at
the Summit.
presentations are supposed to be "on organized
discussions that start
online and aim to reach to agreements during the event". Its been a
while since I was a regular "template editor" or "gadget developer",
but coming to agreement at an in person event isn't something that
strikes me as being the wiki-way of doing things, and people who
primarily develop on wiki-pages probably aren't going to resolve on
wiki disagreements in such a forum
If you are thinking about fixing a template in enwiki or copying a gadget
from pt.wiki and translating it to German, then sure. If you look at
platform / roadmap questions like common repository for templates (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52329) or i18n framework for gadgets (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110633) then I don't see any difference
with other developer topics being proposed for the Summit.
Maybe a problem here is a simplistic view of template and gadget
developers? Both areas have many content editors and junior developers
doing their best at a very basic level. They also have experienced
developers trying to solve complex problems that require the involvement of
the developers of the frameworks supporting gadgets and templates. Same
with bots, tools, apps, and the use of our APIs.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil