On 7/27/15, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly with your email. But I wonder if this part is a bit looking at the past through rose coloured glasses. Vector roll out was certainly better than some other feature rollouts, but... it was hardly without pain if I remember correctly. Although it was a long time ago, and before I was involved on the dev side, so my memory is a bit fuzzy.
I was also a bit surprised to hear that process held up as a positive example. But it was before my time as well, so I don't have direct knowledge, just what Liam related to me.
The parts of that process I'm most excited about are:
- setting public success criteria ahead of time, based on user
adoption/retention 2. the public commitment to iterate*, before broad rollout, based on specific feedback from beta testers.
- J
*and not just fix bugs, but actually revise/add/eliminate features
Yes I agree that setting out public criteria ahead of time is something very nice. I see a lot of comments from users who feel they are powerless to prevent the feature from being fully deployed if it turns out to be bad, and thus don't want to have any trials at all, because they feel it leads down a road which cannot be turned back on.
--bawolff