[Labs-l] Tool Labs: Summary of Feedback on the Draft for the Roadmap

[Ryan Lane]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Silke Meyer <silke.meyer at wikimedia.de>wrote:

>
> 2) Bad Tool Labs experience:
> * How fast is the account creation process right now? A tool
> maintainer reported that he spontaneously had some time to think about
> migrating. He requested an account but then waited for two weeks to
> get it. For people working on tools in their spare time this is too
> long.
> * Documentation has to be improved! Good overviews are needed as well
> as a detailed documentation of everything relevant to working in Tool
> Labs.
>

There's two project managers on this project, two ops folks and one
developer. If everyone involved would be bold and document things it would
be great.


> * An example: You get strange messages and can't find any information
> on them, e.g. this one: "Your user rights were changed by Andrew
> Bogott. You are now a member of this group: shell. Learn more". By
> clicking onto it, you get a list of permissions: "loginviashell".
> There is a red link pointing to "Wikitech:Shell". The user is
> confused.
> * Who is responsible for documentation? (I'm not sure I answered this
> correctly: It's not clear to me how much the Tool Labs docs overlap
> with general Labs docs and who is responsible for that part. Or is the
> Tool Labs documentation isolated from the rest???)
>
>
Everyone involved on the project is responsible for documentation. The
documentation for labs and tool labs overlaps greatly.

- Ryan
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