Do we have a published guideline somewhere about MediaWiki quality standards for pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and production releases of elements like MediaViewer, VisualEditor, Flow, Winter, and HHVM?
Pine On Sep 20, 2014 12:14 AM, "Jon Work" jon.davies@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
:} I am always impressed by those of you for whom English is not your native tongue. It can be very complicated to understand some of the shortcuts we use.
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On 20 Sep 2014, at 02:22, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Anders Wennersten wrote:
I also did soma very subjective test on response times and found the new feature to give 1-3 s quicker response, which is quite much (6s-5s, 7s-4s) and make a big difference in the user experience.
Woo! :D
Also after reflecting on my little harsh reaction on the deployment process, I wonder if it is not a language/communication issue
Being a non-native English speaking person I must admit I have no idea of the meaning "intrepid" means in "for intrepid beta testers". It seems for Guillaume it means "hey this is badly tested, but use if you have patience/courage" which I can accept as a message of a testrelease
Also in my backgroud working in a company making internal deployment of software for 4000 internal users, I am used of making a huge difference in "ready for Alpha test" and "ready for Beta test", but perhaps my reference frame is inappropriate in this case, where perhaps a beta functionality means "Software for testing, not ready for release" and covering both my distinctions
So I apologize if I used too strong wordings and instead want to congratulate you on releasing a good function where you so speedily fixed the bug!
No worries. Thank you for taking the time to write up this message explaining. I think there are definitely ways in which we can improve our communication about beta (or alpha!) features, including attempting to label them appropriately and making sure the message is suitably clear. Your constructive feedback will help us do better in the future.
MZMcBride
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