Hi Pine,
I can't speak for the team that is responsible for Flow. But perhaps you
overlooked that a plan for such an opt-in system was already included in
the September reprioritization announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/082993.html>
which
some (present company excluded) had their drama-and-doom focused mindset
let them misinterpret as "Flow is getting killed".
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Toby.
Some of the goals for Research and Design Research particularly interest
me.
Can you (or someone in Product and Engineering) clarify what is happening
with Flow? I thought that development status had changed to maintenance
only, but then I heard otherwise off-list, and now I see that there is a
Flow-related goal to "Increase access to Flow by deploying and supporting
an opt-in system for it". Deploying it sounds different than putting it
into maintenace-only status. Having Flow be opt-in will probably please
Flow's supporters, and hopefully will be a nice incremental way to
identify problems with it on a manageable scale, and to allow wikimarkup
users to continue to use that more flexible option. Is the plan to continue
an opt-in rollout and continue to allocate development resources for Flow
beyond minimal maintenance support? Clarification would be appreciated.
(Side note: there are ongoing discussions about Flow on Lila's talk page on
Meta.)
Thanks,
Pine
On Nov 1, 2015 7:01 PM, "Toby Negrin" <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone --
A bit late but I wanted to let you know that the Engineering goals for
the
2d quarter (October to December) of this current
Fiscal year are posted
on
goal
owner identified in the wiki page for more
information.
-Toby
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