> > I think this is the key point. Remember that this is the "developer summit" > and > not an "architecture summit", and as such anything MediaWiki-related is up > for > grabs. And if the topic of templates comes up, specifically what we need to > fix > in templates or what new features we should focus on next, who better to > have > there for that than the users of templates themselves.
I was basing my comment partially on the mw.org page, which states that the purpose of the meeting was to "push the evolution of the MediaWiki architecture and the Wikimedia Engineering goals for 2016." This kind of made it sound (at least to me) much more like "architecture summit" then "anything MediaWiki-related" Just to be clear, I think its great that people like template editors come to technical events. I was just concerned that the material would be mostly irrelevant to them if it was all about RfCs, which I appear to be mistaken about. Although, I will say its still kind of unclear what is expected that these types of developers will be doing at the summit. Officially, presentations are supposed to be "on organized discussions that start online and aim to reach to agreements during the event". Its been a while since I was a regular "template editor" or "gadget developer", but coming to agreement at an in person event isn't something that strikes me as being the wiki-way of doing things, and people who primarily develop on wiki-pages probably aren't going to resolve on wiki disagreements in such a forum (OTOH, my experience is a while ago, and only relavent to one wiki, so who knows). -- bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
