Hoi,
As a very involved Wikimedian I do not get anything out of your approach.
It is obvious that you care about the VisualEditor because you have self
nominated it. That is fine. I do not care either about it so you already
lost me. Given that this is the Wikimedia list and not the Wikipedia list I
hope you find my reply obvious and irritating. When you want to engage all
of us, make sure that you do not phrase a general plea for engagement in
something that is mostly Wikipedia.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 11 February 2015 at 21:31, Damon Sicore <dsic...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> We are changing our engineering processes to improve how we engage with
> you -- our valued contributors and editors -- around software development.
>
> We are beginning with the collaborative buildout and deployment of
> VisualEditor. We are moving community engagement processes and product
> decisions into earlier stages of development, and making them iterative. In
> a perfect world this process would start prior to feature development, but
> in this case VisualEditor is already in-flight, so your participation now
> is critical. With your participation, we can work together to ensure this
> new process works.
>
> In this new process, we commit to:
>
> • Collectively identify success criteria for each target audience, from
> new editors (simple feature set) to expert editors (complex feature set).
> • Ensure success criteria represents the quantified and qualified goals.
> The feature will only be shipped when the success criteria is met.
> • Enable the feature for only portions of specific audiences that would
> best benefit (a process known as “incremental roll-out”) at a time.
> • Triage and prioritize all bugs and feature requests on a weekly basis to
> ensure they are addressed in a timely fashion. Publicly post responses,
> assessment, and target implementations. This will replace the RFP process
> and ensure we are tracking on all requested features efficiently.
>
> How you can engage:
>
> • Report bugs or enhancement requests in Phabricator:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/visualeditor/
> • Join any of the weekly triage meetings to nominate a release blocker.
> Please see the instructions at:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal
> • Participate in development. You can find the team on IRC in the
> #mediawiki-visualeditor channel on irc.freenode.net.
>
> We are excited to get this long-standing feature to the level of quality
> and success we all want and need. It is a collective effort. You are not
> only a stakeholder, but an active contributor in this work. We want to all
> to be proud of the outcome. Please participate now.
>
> All my best,
>
> Damon
>
>
> —
> Damon Sicore
> VP of Engineering
> Wikimedia Foundation
> dsic...@wikimedia.org
>
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