Brian Wolff <bawolff <at> gmail.com> writes:
On 2013-05-06 1:31 PM, "Quim Gil" <qgil <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 05/06/2013 05:41 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
A few people have started to organize the various bug reports about watchlists, but there is still much to do before we have a clear & prioritized vision of what the watchlist feature should become.
fwiw I had already suggested a Bug Day focusing on the Watchlist
feature.
If this is considered useful Andre could schedule it whenever appropriate.
Therefore, if a few developers could declare their interest in tackling the watchlist issue in the foreseeable future, it would help arouse interest and enthusiasm from users, and motivate them to organize user research in order to design a better watchlist feature.
I don't think we need a formal pledge or commitment; a simple declaration of interest would imho be enough to get started. The specifics can be ironed out later.
Sounds like an entry to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_proj ectsmight
help as soon as there is a broad idea of what needs to be done.
What happened to last years gsoc project in this area? Are there people working on getting it merged?
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Hi Folks,
Last year, I worked on making improvements to the watchlist feature as my project for GSoC. The changes I made are still available as an unmerged change in Gerrit. [1] I'm glad to see that the project is starting to gain momentum. A major limitation of my efforts last year was that, under GSoC rules, I was the only developer who was allowed to code for the project. Now that other developers are looking to work on the project, I think that a project of this size has a much better chance of succeeding. Watchlist improvements as a project is extremely susceptible to feature creep, and unless there is a well-defined plan from the start, it risks getting shelved entirely. A blog of my progress last summer is available for ideas. [2]
I'd recommend fixing feature request bugs as a large coordinated overhaul of the watchlist, rather than a piecemeal approach that may result in duplicative code or work that gets scrapped soon after it is finished.
I may be unavailable intermittently for the next 6 weeks, but I should be able to help out from the middle of June until early September.
-Aaron
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16419/ [2] http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/