Hi all,
Here is more information for those of you who have signed up to use Montage for your jury process this year. [1]
The developers of Montage (cc-ed) have been working hard in the past months on the latest release of Montage which will, among other things, bring some of the features and functionalities you told us about last year. [2] We are excited to bring these improvements to you, and here is the timelines for it [2]:
* 2017-09-30 around 21:00 UTC: I will start creating campaigns for each country that has signed up in [1]. * 2017-10-01 around 21:00 UTC: We will share the link to where the new montage version will live with you. Your jury coordinator (listed in [1]) can create round 1 of your jury process then. * 2017-10-02 around 21:00 UTC: your jury can start the jury process.
Any issue in [3] tagged with "high priority" will be ready by 2017-10-01, 21:00 UTC. These are features that you need in place to create your round 1. Issues tagged with "normal priority" will be done starting 2017-10-02. These are features that are either not critical in the early days of your jury process or we know that are relevant only when you get to the final ranking round.
While you are waiting the new version of Montage to become available: please make sure you have your jury ready and also make sure you have read https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikilovesmonuments/2017-September/0086...
Questions and comments are welcome.
Best, Lily
[1] If you haven't signed up and you want to use Montage, please sign your country up at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage as soon as possible. [2] We may be able to meet the deadlines earlier than the times specified here, but we can't promise that. If we have things ready earlier, we will shift deadlines for you to start earlier. [3] Such features and functionalities (in Github language: issues) are listed at https://github.com/hatnote/montage/issues