Hi Pine,
I can't speak for the team that is responsible for Flow. But perhaps you overlooked that a plan for such an opt-in system was already included in the September reprioritization announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/082993.html which some (present company excluded) had their drama-and-doom focused mindset let them misinterpret as "Flow is getting killed".
On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Toby.
Some of the goals for Research and Design Research particularly interest me.
Can you (or someone in Product and Engineering) clarify what is happening with Flow? I thought that development status had changed to maintenance only, but then I heard otherwise off-list, and now I see that there is a Flow-related goal to "Increase access to Flow by deploying and supporting an opt-in system for it". Deploying it sounds different than putting it into maintenace-only status. Having Flow be opt-in will probably please Flow's supporters, and hopefully will be a nice incremental way to identify problems with it on a manageable scale, and to allow wikimarkup users to continue to use that more flexible option. Is the plan to continue an opt-in rollout and continue to allocate development resources for Flow beyond minimal maintenance support? Clarification would be appreciated.
(Side note: there are ongoing discussions about Flow on Lila's talk page on Meta.)
Thanks, Pine On Nov 1, 2015 7:01 PM, "Toby Negrin" tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Everyone --
A bit late but I wanted to let you know that the Engineering goals for
the
2d quarter (October to December) of this current Fiscal year are posted
on
Mediawiki.org.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals
We'll be more timely in the future. Please reach out to the respective
goal
owner identified in the wiki page for more information.
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