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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Engineering_Community_Team/Meetings/2014-05-2... On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, David Cuenca dacuetu@gmail.com wrote:
this year in a Gsoc project, following a proposal by the student, we are using a dedicated mailing list for his project.
I understand why you are deciding to create a mailing list, but at the same time I'm hoping that in the very near future situations like these can be solved with Phabricator, the tool that is planned to deprecate Bugzilla, Gerrit and several tools more.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator
In fact, instead of creating a mailing list that will be surely ignored and forgotten by the rest of the community, I encourage you to run your short-term project with a clear deadline at http://fab.wmflabs.org/
In a Phabricator project all the discussions can be organized around tasks. You can have a generic "Planning Project X" for the meta-discussion. This will give you a space for discussion integrated with project planning and code review.
Phabricator allows you to assign tasks to more than one project, which means that in our production instance you will be able to mark tasks as bugs in other MediaWiki components. Another interesting feature is the possibility for users to subscribe to keywords. This means that having a task related to "Python" might bring the attention of other Python developers, even if they had no prior idea about the existence of your project.
This way of working is a lot more efficient and sustainable than separate mailing lists for projects. I encourage you to give it a try! For what is worth, there is at least one GSoC project using Phabricator.
Chemical Markup for Wikimedia Commons http://fab.wmflabs.org/project/view/26/