On 2013-03-22 9:37 AM, "Guillaume Paumier" gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Many of the ideas listed there are too generic ("Write an extension"), improvements of existing features ("Improve Extension:CSS")
This may sound naive, but why are "improvements of existing features" discarded? My thinking was that, if the student didn't have to start from scratch, they would have more time to polish their work and make it fit with our strict standards, hence making it more likely for their work to be merged and deployed.
(Of course, the existing code needs to be good enough not to require a complete rewrite, but that could be decided on a case-by-case basis.)
-- Guillaume Paumier
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I think improvement to exidting features are fine, but it should be existing features that are used by (or have a high potential of being) used by the wmf. If its a feature not used by wikimedia, it should have an extremely high impact on third parties to compensate.
-bawolff