On 04/09/2013 12:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2013/4/9 Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com:
One system that I find a lot of potential value in is the Wikitech Ambassadors mailing list. I hope that mailing list grows and can be the place where we make announcements that should be communicated widely.
I'd like to second this. More info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors
Yes, that, but to make it really useful testing environments must be set up.
Every email to that mailing list must have a tl;dr version that MUST have the following two things:
- A two-line-max description of the feature that is going to be deployed.
- A link to a working testing environment where the feature can be
tested. It can be labs or something like test.wikipedia. Or a feature can be available using a preference which is off be default.
Let people test - and make it easy.
I agree that emails to wikitech-ambassadors should definitely have a short, plain-English "how this affects you" summary. A link to a place to test also sounds ideal.