Hi folks, Thanks for your good feedback on Gergo’s proposal to discuss day-to-day details of the multimedia team's work on this list.
From what we’ve heard so far, it sounds like people are generally open to this idea, so we’d like to try this out for now. We can reconvene in a few weeks to see how everyone likes it. If we’re all happy with this, it will save us the trouble of starting another list. If it’s too much information for some folks, we could move some of the more detailed technical discussions to another list. Overall, this is good timing for increasing activity on this multimedia list, as we prepare to a wider release of Media Viewer and our team is now fully staffed. (We didn't use this list as much in recent months because we were still staffing up and our products were in early stages of development, with lots of known bugs.) Now that we are up to speed as a team, we look forward to discussing our work with you more, and getting more feedback from community partners at each step of the way. Keep in mind that some of our emails may be pretty trivial and will often not deserve a response. And we may not always be able to engage in extended discussions about every small feature, so we can save our scarce development time for getting the actual work done :) But even if we can’t respond to everything, everyone will have higher visibility into our work, and this will enable us to have more productive conversations during IRC chats, so we can focus on core issues, rather than getting everyone caught up. I will post an update about Media Viewer tomorrow, to give everyone a sense of our progress so far and next steps for this product. In the meantime, you are welcome to scan the log of Friday’s IRC chat to get a general idea of our current course. (1) Onward! Fabrice (1) Media Viewer IRC Chat Log: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2014-02-21-mm On Feb 24, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, please, more traffic. This list is currently abandoned, basically; >> having more "day to day stuff" will give it a sense, while not solving world >> famine. The subscribers interested in the old wikivideo-l-type discussions, >> or other higher level / less technical topics, already have Commons-l >> anyway. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Multimedia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia > > > > -- > Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 > > _______________________________________________ > Multimedia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia _______________________________ On Feb 23, 2014, at 4:36 AM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]> wrote: > You can start by posting a weekly (activity) report like the Wikidata team > does. > On Feb 23, 2014, at 2:40 AM, Amanpreet Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > I personally feel it would be great to get an insight of Multimedia viewer's > work as sometime it creates confusion for volunteers that what you are > currently doing and plan to do. > > There should be definitely a new mailing list as the one who want to know > your discussions will surely join it. > > Cheers! > > Gergo Tisza schreef op 23-2-2014 10:25: >> Hi all, >> >> the Multimedia team had some discussions recently about how to make our work >> more transparent and more open to volunteers, and we decided to try using an >> open subscription mailing list for team discussions, instead of the current >> practice of cc-ing each member manually. These discussions are about >> day-to-day details of our work; sometimes feature requirements or design, >> sometimes technical details. The volume is typically one or two new threads >> per day. >> >> We weren't sure how much members of this list would be interested in such >> conversations and didn't want to flood this list with mails that are not >> useful for most members, but we also do not want to split conversation >> channels unnecessarily. Please help us by telling whether you would be >> interested in the topics mentioned above, or would prefer if we created a >> new mailing list for them. >> >> Thanks! >> Gergő >
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