On Thursday, April 10, 2014, Dan Garry
<dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Antoine,
Allow me to explain my motivations a bit. Perhaps it will become clearer
then. :-)
As a team, we have responsibilities. For example, that task that's on
there right now is a problem caused by our actions; we pulled that
extension for security reasons, then decided we couldn't reenable it due to
design issues. Therefore our actions have caused a very real regression in
our user experience. As the product manager, I find these regressions
concerning, and we have a responsibility to fix them.
Right now, my only recourse to fix these user experience regressions is to
ask politely for someone from the team to help me. I typically get a
lukewarm response to these requests. Meanwhile, I get a fair amount of
abuse directed at me by volunteers for not fixing these problems, because I
am the public face of the team and it (outwardly) looks like we don't care
to fix these relatively simple problems. Sure, it sucks for us to do these
random tasks, but it sucks hard for our users too. We lose a lot of
credibility with some of our volunteers for it.
So what I'm trying to do here is make it as easy as humanely possible for
you guys, the overworked engineers, to pick these tasks up and get them
done. At the same time, I don't want to get sucked into maintaining control
over the task list, so
mediawiki.org was the simplest solution.
I hope that helps explain things a bit.
Thanks,
Dan
On 10 April 2014 09:03, Antoine Musso
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wrote:
Le 10/04/2014 00:53, Dan Garry a écrit :
could
be thought of as "annoying little bugs for
more experienced developers".
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs is a nice page, I
point our India volunteers to it constantly (no clue if it has any
effects though).
I tend to dislike MediaWiki to maintains backlog lists. Maybe we could
use:
- a keyword or tracking bug in Bugzilla.
- phabricator , I would not mind start being used to it
- trello (yet another tool)
We used to do weekly reviews of bugs keyworded platformeng. The are 111
of bugs so you would have a hard time raising attention for the micro
tasks though :(
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=platformeng
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