[teampractices] [Wikitech-l] Read the VisualEditor process review

Mon Jun 8 17:21:48 UTC 2015

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Neil P. Quinn <nquinn at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> In addition to the team's significant strengths, we identified three major
> challenges we'd like to work on:
>
>    - Consulting stakeholders like Analytics and Design Research often have
>    trouble engaging with VE’s development.
>    - The process for early-stage requirements and design decision-making is
>    informal and incomplete.
>    - The team has a high reporting load which may no longer be justified.
>
> Next week, we'll start to expand the report with some proposed solutions
> (suggestions welcome!)
>
> Have a good weekend!
> —————
> Neil P. Quinn <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Neil_P._Quinn-WMF>,
> product analyst
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