Roan Kattouw
<roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2011/3/23 Marcin Cieslak
<saper(a)saper.info>fo>:
One of the ways to improve this is to assign
mentors to new committers.
Mentors don't have to be necessarily related to the particular area
of committers work. The question is how many current developers
would have time to accommodate "newbies", but maybe we can work
towards this idea?
I was personally going for something more like assigning reviewers to
MW components, paths, time slots, or some combination thereof. But if
we're gonna have that discussion for real, let's have it in its on
thread :)
Yea, right, sorry for hijack. Changed subject for now. I am not sure
that any formal assignement will work esp. taking volunteers into account.
I prefer to do "svn log" and see who made last few meaningful commits.
In some areas it will be easy - like in the api I am most likely to see
"catrope" or "reedy", but there are some forgotten swamps (like
some extensions) where only raymond and firends push localization updates.
Obviously, I consider it a good practice to talk to someone
touch this code earlier (as I did with CentralNotice and I didn't with
API). Maybe we lack some forum for this pre-commit exchange
(I think some open forum is better than private exchange
on mail or even IRC channel). But sometimes things are too trivial
to bother *the* mailing list (and then, wikimedia-tech seems to be
more likely place since it became more developer-oriented than
mediawiki-l).
Just to give a not-so-hypothetical example, since I don't like discussing
in vain, what about this:
Is this okay to fix
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16260
by adding a new [[Message:qsidebar]] that is the same as [[Message:Sidebar]]
only accepts EDIT, THISPAGE, CONTEXT, MYPAGES, SPECIALPAGES, TOOLBOX boxes?
I see that hartman and dartman did some work there recently, and ashley
one clean up about a year ago.
//Marcin