Implement all the features required for running the Newsletter extension in Wikimedia
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	Aug 28 2015, 7:04 AM

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The purpose of this task is to agree on the features the Newsletter extension must have in order to be deployed in Wikimedia, and to track them down as blocking tasks. Here we talk about features in general; bug reports and implementation details don't need to be blocking this task directly.

@Tinaj1234, @01tonythomas and @Qgil are having their last GSoC weekly meeting today, and they will document here the ideas they had in mind during the GSoC phase. From this point, we will open the discussion to the rest of contributors and stakeholders interested. We should make another call for feedback to newsletter maintainers, perhaps adding wikitech-l, tech-ambassadors and Tech News this time. It would be good to have a list of missing features agreed by mid September.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Duplicate	Qgil	T125545 Phabricator Q&A session for Community Liaisons
Resolved	Qgil	T116025 Goal: Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices
Resolved	Qgil	T119387 Community Liaison and Developer Relation quarterly goals for January - March 2016
Declined	None	T104131 Exporting existing newsletter to the Newsletter extension
Resolved	Addshore	T110170 Goal: Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia
Resolved	Qgil	T110642 Implement all the features required for running the Newsletter extension in Wikimedia
Resolved	Glaisher	T110490 Deleting a newsletter and subsequent clean up
Resolved	Tinaj1234	T108482 Assign ownership of newsletter to another user
Resolved	Glaisher	T110191 Users should be able to subscribe to newsletters without JavaScript
Resolved	Tinaj1234	T110491 Newsletter extension should have validation
Resolved	Tinaj1234	T107557 Sorting of newsletters
Resolved	Glaisher	T110327 Add user rights for Newsletter extension
Resolved	Glaisher	T114145 Allow publishers to remove themselves
Resolved	Parent5446	T110552 Implement logging in Newsletter
Resolved	Tinaj1234	T108301 Notify users when they are added as a 'Publisher' to a Newsletter
Resolved	Mooeypoo	T116856 Write presentation model for Newsletter

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Qgil created this task.Aug 28 2015, 7:04 AM

Qgil raised the priority of this task from to Medium.

Qgil updated the task description. (Show Details)

Qgil added projects: Community-Relations-Support, Developer-Advocacy, MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter.

Qgil removed projects: Developer-Advocacy, Community-Relations-Support.

Qgil set Security to None.

Qgil added subscribers: • Elitre, Bawolff, • MZMcBride and 7 others.

Qgil mentioned this in T110170: Goal: Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia.Aug 28 2015, 7:25 AM

Qgil added subtasks: T104570: Issues of newsletters should be subpages of the newsletter's main page, T110490: Deleting a newsletter and subsequent clean up, T108482: Assign ownership of newsletter to another user, T110191: Users should be able to subscribe to newsletters without JavaScript.Aug 28 2015, 11:09 AM

Qgil mentioned this in T110366: Newsletter extension: Technical review.Aug 28 2015, 11:32 AM

Qgil mentioned this in T104131: Exporting existing newsletter to the Newsletter extension.Aug 28 2015, 11:42 AM

Qgil removed a subtask: T110645: Interwiki support for Newsletter extension.Aug 28 2015, 11:49 AM

Qgil moved this task from Backlog to Feature complete on the MediaWiki-extensions-Newsletter board.

Glaisher closed subtask T110490: Deleting a newsletter and subsequent clean up as Resolved.Sep 24 2015, 11:52 AM

Qgil removed a subtask: T104570: Issues of newsletters should be subpages of the newsletter's main page.Oct 1 2015, 11:12 AM

Tinaj1234 closed subtask T108482: Assign ownership of newsletter to another user as Resolved.Oct 1 2015, 11:16 AM

Glaisher closed subtask T110191: Users should be able to subscribe to newsletters without JavaScript as Resolved.Oct 1 2015, 3:48 PM

All the blocking tasks are closed, should this be still open ?

Yes, there's still some features I'd like to be implemented before deployment. We still need to clean up the code and also verify that nothing breaks.

Glaisher added subtasks: T110491: Newsletter extension should have validation, T107557: Sorting of newsletters, T114145: Allow publishers to remove themselves, T110327: Add user rights for Newsletter extension.Oct 23 2015, 11:33 AM

Glaisher added a subtask: T110552: Implement logging in Newsletter.

Qgil mentioned this in T115095: Security review of Newsletter extension.Nov 12 2015, 12:14 PM

Glaisher closed subtask T114145: Allow publishers to remove themselves as Resolved.Nov 16 2015, 4:48 PM

Glaisher closed subtask T107557: Sorting of newsletters as Resolved.

I looked at the test installation (http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org) again very briefly yesterday. I continue to find the user interface very awkward to use.

The difference between http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters and http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ManageNewsletter is still unclear to me

Once a newsletter is created, I couldn't figure out how to edit its description text; http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Newsletter/12 doesn't work to edit the text, as far as I can tell

http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Newsletter/12 is rough to use; "main page" isn't a link; the page is still weirdly sprawling without giving a lot of information; the "manage" button doesn't do what I would expect it to do at all

http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:CreateNewsletter has a weird and confusing "Title of Main Page" label

The "subscribe" button at http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Newsletter/6 shouldn't require confirmation on a separate screen

Newsletter name field should probably do more input validation (a single space is allowed?)

Description field doesn't parse wikitext (http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Newsletters)

Breadcrumbs at http://newsletter-test.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:ManageNewsletter aren't aware of the current page (current breadcrumb should turn bold and be de-linked)

Glaisher closed subtask T110327: Add user rights for Newsletter extension as Resolved.Feb 15 2016, 5:42 PM

Qgil mentioned this in T110491: Newsletter extension should have validation.Feb 18 2016, 11:39 AM

@MZMcBride , thank you for the feedback. I have pasted your comment to T116353: Design feedback on the Newsletter extension with the rest of your comments.

Qgil added a subtask: T108301: Notify users when they are added as a 'Publisher' to a Newsletter.Feb 18 2016, 12:10 PM

Tinaj1234 closed subtask T110491: Newsletter extension should have validation as Resolved.Mar 10 2016, 12:11 PM

Qgil mentioned this in T131454: As creator / publisher of a newsletter, I cannot edit and save its description.Apr 1 2016, 9:10 AM

Qgil mentioned this in T131457: "Manage" label in Newsletter detail page is confusing.Apr 1 2016, 9:18 AM

01tonythomas closed subtask T108301: Notify users when they are added as a 'Publisher' to a Newsletter as Resolved.Apr 1 2016, 12:09 PM

ori reopened subtask T110490: Deleting a newsletter and subsequent clean up as Open.Apr 2 2016, 1:27 AM

ori closed subtask T110490: Deleting a newsletter and subsequent clean up as Resolved.Apr 2 2016, 2:20 PM

01tonythomas closed subtask T110552: Implement logging in Newsletter as Resolved.Apr 2 2016, 2:24 PM