Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Krinkle
On Jun 23, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: >> >>> On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed >>> it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-23 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 06/22/2012 10:53 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: > >> On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed >> it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at >> Wikimania, and it fits our goal of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-22 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris McMahon wrote: > On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed > it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at > Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing > nicely: > Spea

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Ryan Lane
> I'm especially interested in tasks where there's a lot of work to do -- > that way, people can be given lots of hands-on things to do that can > provide practice to help people be more comfortable with tools like git > and gerrit, or more comfortable with the MediaWiki hooks, or where the > task

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Chris McMahon
On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing nicely: Wikipedia has a large number of open bug reports, like around 80

Re: [Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Nischay Nahata
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Hey all wikitech peeps, > > In helping organize the upcoming Wikimania DC Hackathon, I wanted > to ask if there are particular categories of work that people with > fairly limited experience could do that would have a meaningful impact. > >

[Wikitech-l] Suggestions for tasks for new contributors during hackathon

2012-06-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Hey all wikitech peeps, In helping organize the upcoming Wikimania DC Hackathon, I wanted to ask if there are particular categories of work that people with fairly limited experience could do that would have a meaningful impact. For example: * Updating extensions to work with the latest version