On 05/06/2013 05:26 PM, Aaron Pramana wrote: > Brian Wolff <bawolff <at> gmail.com> writes: > >> >> On 2013-05-06 1:31 PM, "Quim Gil" <qgil <at> wikimedia.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 05/06/2013 05:41 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: >>>> >>>> A few people have started to organize the various bug reports about >>>> watchlists, but there is still much to do before we have a clear & >>>> prioritized vision of what the watchlist feature should become. >>> >>> >>> fwiw I had already suggested a Bug Day focusing on the Watchlist > feature. >> If this is considered useful Andre could schedule it whenever appropriate. >>> >>> >>>> Therefore, if a few developers could declare their interest in >>>> tackling the watchlist issue in the foreseeable future, it would help >>>> arouse interest and enthusiasm from users, and motivate them to >>>> organize user research in order to design a better watchlist feature. >>>> >>>> I don't think we need a formal pledge or commitment; a simple >>>> declaration of interest would imho be enough to get started. The >>>> specifics can be ironed out later. >>> >>> >>> Sounds like an entry to >> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_proj > ectsmight >> help as soon as there is a broad idea of what needs to be done. >> >> What happened to last years gsoc project in this area? Are there people >> working on getting it merged? >> >> -bawolff >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > Hi Folks, > > Last year, I worked on making improvements to the watchlist feature as my > project for GSoC. The changes I made are still available as an unmerged > change in Gerrit. [1] I'm glad to see that the project is starting to gain > momentum. A major limitation of my efforts last year was that, under GSoC > rules, I was the only developer who was allowed to code for the project.
Aaron, can you point me to that rule? I am nearly certain that you are wrong. > Now > that other developers are looking to work on the project, I think that a > project of this size has a much better chance of succeeding. Watchlist > improvements as a project is extremely susceptible to feature creep, and > unless there is a well-defined plan from the start, it risks getting shelved > entirely. A blog of my progress last summer is available for ideas. [2] > > I'd recommend fixing feature request bugs as a large coordinated overhaul of > the watchlist, rather than a piecemeal approach that may result in > duplicative code or work that gets scrapped soon after it is finished. > > I may be unavailable intermittently for the next 6 weeks, but I should be > able to help out from the middle of June until early September. > > -Aaron > > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16419/ > [2] http://mw-watchlist.tumblr.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
