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 <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 eyes > on a situation. Thank you for your work on this, it was quite > enlightening. > > Risker/Anne > > On 7 June 2015 at 00:09, Neil P. Quinn <nqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > 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, > we > > won't find them replaced by new ones the very next quarter :) > > > > Thanks for the question—it feels great to know that someone is out there > > reading our child of the mind! > > ————— > > Neil P. Quinn <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neil_P._Quinn-WMF>, > > product analyst > > Wikimedia Foundation > > +1 (202) 656 3457 > > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Greg Grossmeier <g...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > <quote name="Neil P. Quinn" date="2015-06-05" time="16:56:07 -0700"> > > > > 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 > > > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2015_Process_Review> on > > > > mediawiki.org. If you're interested, please read it over and, of > > > > course, shout at us on the talk page if we wrote anything stupid. > > > > > > > > > Neil et al, this is great! Thanks for the very informative read, even > as > > > someone who works closely with the VE team on a semi-daily basis (at > > > least!). I think it is great that the time and energy was devoted to > > > developing this report. > > > > > > The plan at [0] suggests that this is a one-time process with a > > > conclusion (which is good), thus it isn't tied in, explicitly, with the > > > quarterly goal planning process, correct? > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > > > Greg > > > > > > [0] < > > > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/2015_Team_Process_Review#Plans > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > | Greg Grossmeier GPG: B2FA 27B1 F7EB D327 6B8E | > > > | identi.ca: @greg A18D 1138 8E47 FAC8 1C7D | > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
