Hi, What if we added extra projects to phabricator for programming languages (such as language-php, language-c) which could be optionally added to some tickets if help of people who know these languages would be needed. So that it would be possible for example to c++ experts to filter out open tasks that need c++ expert to look in them and so on? Currently I have few of such tasks that I would like to have experts in some language to look at, but there isn't really an easy way to do that. What you think? Should we add these meta-projects? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

What if we added extra projects to phabricator for programming languages (such as language-php, language-c) which could be optionally added to some tickets if help of people who know these languages would be needed. So that it would be possible for example to c++ experts to filter out open tasks that need c++ expert to look in them and so on? Currently I have few of such tasks that I would like to have experts in some language to look at, but there isn't really an easy way to do that. What you think? Should we add these meta-projects?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: Having a tag does not make experts magically find the task, especially for languages wich are relatively uncommon amongst MediaWiki devs. IMO it's more practical to ask on StackOverflow or ##c++ or some other forum that's specifically a gathering place for language experts. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: I think a previous step should e to have landing pages for such languages in mediawiki.org, pointing to the main projects and resources related to such languages. Quite often we meet new potential developers that want to contribute but have no strong opinion about where. They do have an opinion about their programming skills, so usually the reply is I can code in this or that language. Once a page like i.e. mw:Java exists and it is linked from the right venues, then it starts making sense to tag Phabricator tasks requiring Java skills, hopefully finding some Easy ones to offer a great search query for whoever might be interested. Related: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91633 (the 'what I can do for...' idea, which at least in the case of Mozilla started by asking you to choose a programming langiage). -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l