Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-09 Thread Pine W
Just to make sure that this has been said: thank you VE team, we appreciate your work that will benefit Wikipedia for years to come. Pine ___ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Joel Aufrecht
Hi Greg, The process improvement effort is not explicitly tied in with quarterly goals. If we come up with specific recommendations that require enough effort to register on a quarterly scale, or that influence the output of the team that much, they could be inputs to goal-setting. Team Practice

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-08 Thread Dan Garry
And, as a person that is not involved in the development of VisualEditor in any way but knows many of the VisualEditor Team quite well, I also found this very interesting. Thanks for putting it together! Dan On 6 June 2015 at 21:18, Risker wrote: > As a non-technical volunteer, I've drifted in

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-06 Thread Risker
As a non-technical volunteer, I've drifted in and out of the VE discussion, and have participated at wildly variable levels over the past few years. I found this to be a very interesting and informative read - especially as it came from people new to the entire history. It's good to have fresh eye

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-06 Thread Neil P. Quinn
Hey Greg! Yes, this is meant to be a one-time process. We've been spending a significant proportion of our time on it ever since we joined in mid-April (I'd say about 30% for me, and probably more for Joel)—too much to make it a regular thing. And hopefully, if we manage to address these problems,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [editing-department] Read the VisualEditor process review

2015-06-06 Thread Greg Grossmeier
> Hello everybody! > > For the past couple months, Joel Aufrecht and I have been working on a > project to document and improve the VisualEditor team's processes; we > just published a draft of our report > on > mediawiki.org. If y