Ori and all: this is really fantastic. Thank you. I'm seeing 2+ second speedups (on 6+s loads :/ ) on longish pages such as https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history
Rand, seconding some of your ideas: I would welcome a brief status table showing development-stage and one-line status for each activity, with a link to details.
For the detail pages: The status-history that most activities have is handy. A roadmap + timeline are great where they exist, but can fall out of date when updated manually. Perhaps this could be transcluded from an overall roadmap that is defined as the most up-to-date plan of record.
An overall priority list & 'what is needed next' would also help readers & contributors & testers understand what to prepare for and how to help. For instance with SUL finalization and other activities that involve a lot of coordination and communication and cleanup.
Sam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Rand McRanderson therandshow@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard
This is exacly the sort of thing I had in mind. Although I do have a few suggestions.
- The sizes of the rows are unwieldy. Maybe take the top X amount of
characters from each status summary, instead of the full status summary, and make the links to the full status pages more prominent (alternatively, you could have a short summary have an expand link of some sort to expand to the full summary within this same page). Is there a template for this?
- A column with a one or two word stage name like Pine described would be
helpful, especially if you could sort on it. For sorting purposes, it would be cool to sort by the order of stages (although that is really just an icing on top sort of idea, probably could be done most easily by just having a number in front of the stage name).
The problem with just reading the statuses like these is that a brief statement about the fact that it is almost ready to deploy or something like that can get lost in a wall of text.
On 09/20/2014 04:17 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Hello,
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Rand McRanderson therandshow@gmail.com wrote:
Here is one idea. A dashboard of top level Wikimedia projects with statuses, estimates, and a key to terms. Or does this exist?
There is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Dashboard
It doesn't have everything you mentioned, but we can build on it and improve it.
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