+1
Such a rule would seem rather misguided...
-bawolff
On 2013-05-06 6:58 PM, "Sumana Harihareswara" <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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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