On 9/28/15, Frances Hocutt fhocutt@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
That said, gsoc/opw usually doesn't reflect Wikimedia community priorities all that much (imo).
Do you have any thoughts on why that might be? As I'm on the Community Tech team, I'd love to mentor someone working on a community-centric project.
A potential issue I see there is scope and identifying requirements. It's very easy for onlookers to continue making suggestions and saying that this and that needs to be tweaked, even as the project goes on, and dealing with that process can take a lot of time. In a 10-week internship, it's more of a problem if consensus suddenly shifts around week 8 and suddenly the thing they've been working on is no longer wanted in its current form.
Thoughts?
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I guess because people want things that are self contained and "small" but not too "small", which limits what you can fix.
Don't get me wrong, they are useful projects (Usually, not always). But they usually don't strike me as things that the community would say are super high priority, most of the time. (At least imho).
-- -bawolff