On 05/06/2013 05:26 PM, Aaron Pramana wrote:
Brian Wolff <bawolff <at> gmail.com>
writes:
On 2013-05-06 1:31 PM, "Quim Gil" <qgil <at> wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On 05/06/2013 05:41 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
>>
>> A few people have started to organize the various bug reports about
>> watchlists, but there is still much to do before we have a clear &
>> prioritized vision of what the watchlist feature should become.
>
>
> fwiw I had already suggested a Bug Day focusing on the Watchlist
feature.
If this is considered useful Andre could schedule
it whenever appropriate.
Therefore, if a few developers could declare
their interest in
tackling the watchlist issue in the foreseeable future, it would help
arouse interest and enthusiasm from users, and motivate them to
organize user research in order to design a better watchlist feature.
I don't think we need a formal pledge or commitment; a simple
declaration of interest would imho be enough to get started. The
specifics can be ironed out later.
Sounds like an entry to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_proj
ectsmight
help as soon as there is a broad idea of what
needs to be done.
What happened to last years gsoc project in this area? Are there people
working on getting it merged?
-bawolff
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Hi Folks,
Last year, I worked on making improvements to the watchlist feature as my
project for GSoC. The changes I made are still available as an unmerged
change in Gerrit. [1] I'm glad to see that the project is starting to gain
momentum. A major limitation of my efforts last year was that, under GSoC
rules, I was the only developer who was allowed to code for the project.
Aaron, can you point me to that rule? I am nearly certain that you are
wrong.
Now
that other developers are looking to work on the project, I think that a
project of this size has a much better chance of succeeding. Watchlist
improvements as a project is extremely susceptible to feature creep, and
unless there is a well-defined plan from the start, it risks getting shelved
entirely. A blog of my progress last summer is available for ideas. [2]
I'd recommend fixing feature request bugs as a large coordinated overhaul of
the watchlist, rather than a piecemeal approach that may result in
duplicative code or work that gets scrapped soon after it is finished.
I may be unavailable intermittently for the next 6 weeks, but I should be
able to help out from the middle of June until early September.
-Aaron
[1]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16419/
[2]
http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/
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