Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects with
statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist?
On Sep 20, 2014 3:37 AM, "Pine W" <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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.
Sent from my iPad
> On 20 Sep 2014, at 02:22, MZMcBride <z(a)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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