Hello Mathieu,
<quote name="Mathieu Stumpf" date="2013-04-18" time="10:26:56 +0200">
Le 2013-04-17 20:06, Greg Grossmeier a écrit :
- Echo will be rolling out on en, de, and fr wiki next week on
Thursday (the 25th)
On all Mediawiki projects, or just on some of them like Wikipedia?
Just the English, German, and French Wikipedias.
The Notifications (formerly "Echo") project team does a pretty good job of keeping this etherpad up to date with their planned deployments: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/echo-release
Full roadmap at:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aoizbfxc5g6KdEk...
Would it be possible to use free software solutions, which is not the case of the google spreadsheet as far as I know.
We (myself plus the Engineering Managers) were just talking about this yesterday during the Roadmap Update Meeting (the meeting that happens right before I send out this email).
Robla has a very very rough script that will (hopefully, someday) convert the GDoc into a MediaWiki table that lives on mediawiki.org. He's only working at it sporadically, unfortunately.
So, yes, we completely agree. From my understanding, the home of this information was previously a mediawiki.org table, but that became too unruly when the size of it and the number of people simultaneously editing it caused usability problems. I can safely say that we aren't happy with the non-Freeness of GDocs and we wish we didn't use it in this case, but it was a stop-gap solution, and we fully intend on something else (big F Free) replacing it when we know what will meet our needs.
Depending on the feature needed, EtherCalc may be used instead of the current solution. Other free/libre culture advocates, like the French framasoft[2] network are already using it, see [3].
Wow! Thanks! I have to admit, I haven't put in any real time searching for a replacement, but these might be able to do it.
I'll work on copying over the current version of the Roadmap to ethercalc today/tomorrow.
Actually, if anyone wants to help: https://ethercalc.org/WMF_Engineering_Roadmap
I *think* all of the content is copied over, but the formatting needs some work ;-). I didn't see an "import from CSV/xsl" function, but if I missed that, it might be worth a shot.
No promises from our end, yet (as I don't know if we tried this already and decided against it for some reason), but this is a great option, thank you Mathieu!
Greg