It is not surprising that long term contributors with advanced wiki editing skills and familiar with the key people and corners of our community don't see a big need for change. Well, this is part of the problem.
Yes, Gerrit and Bugzilla have issues. This proposal focuses on the potential contributors that are not even getting there.
On 04/03/2013 02:01 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > I'd like to add a +1 to Ori's request to trial the project in a much more
minimal way, show some results, and then expand from there.
What first iteration would you propose, then?
As I see it, the current proposal is already taking shortcuts in order to have fast iterations. 3 months doesn't mean you don't relese new features in between.
Anything related with enabling Semantic Forms in specific types of pages can be done pretty fast at Wikitech, where those extensions are already installed. We could prototype that by analyzing a bit further notifications and nodes.
If you have a proposal for simpler steps I'm all ears.
rearchitect our entire system from the ground up
This proposal actually doesn't touch our current workflows. You can continue doing what you are doing. All the new features are optional. The worst that can happen is that you find in certain pages a soft-redirect, or a form instead of a {{template}}.
This is *not* about enabling SMW forms in all pages. Main namespace could be as MediaWiki pure as it is now.