On Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
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.
I'm not at all concerned about the rate at which you iterate -- it isn't about how fast you put out the shiny and new, but whether the assumptions that motivate this big undertaking are testable and falsifiable. Before we can say anything with confidence about what newcomers truly need, we need to do some usability testing and research. Because newcomers are generally voiceless, there is an unconscious tendency to project onto them a set of subjective preferences and intuitions, and the only way around that is data.
-- Ori Livneh