At the T149635: [WikiDev17] Developer Wishlist meeting, it was agreed that the Technical Collaboration team will organize a Developer Wishlist survey with the goal of obtaining a prioritized backlog of wishes from developer for developers by February 15. As proponent and first driver of the idea, @Tgr will oversee this program.
Key drivers:
- February 15! Non-negotiable. This is the latest point of time to meaningfully influence the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan 2017-18. Any other aspect of this project will adapt to this requirement.
- Inspiration on the Community Wishlist success. In case of hesitation, we will follow that precedent.
- Experimental mindset, a list is better than no list, perfect is the enemy of good, the second time will be better... With just a month to deliver, we have no time for deep discussions or bike-shedding.
Steps:
- Get https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Wishlist to a point good enough to announce the survey. Basically this boils down to explaining the scope, the process, and instructions to participate.
- Announce the survey in as many Wikimedia & MediaWiki technical spaces as possible.
- Triage proposals as they come with the goal of selecting the valid ones.
- Decide and implement a voting process.
- Voting period.
- Announcement of results by February 15.