[EPIC] Ensure Talk Pages Project "Phase 1" work is easy to maintain, build upon, and learn from
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	Oct 28 2021, 7:45 PM

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This epic involves the work with ensuring the Talk Pages Project "Phase 1" work – broadly defined – is in a state that makes it easy for other people (volunteers, WMF colleagues, our future selves, etc.) to maintain, build upon, and learn from.

Where "easy to maintain, build upon, and learn from." in this context means things like:

Volunteers...
- Know where to go to learn how DiscussionTools features work
- Know where to go to report issues and/or suggest improvements to how DiscussionTools features appear and behave
- Know how to go about leverage DiscussionTools primitives to invent new communication tools and experiences

WMF Staff...
- Know where to go to learn what the Editing Team learned from the research and work they've done during "Phase 1" of the Talk Pages Project
- Know how to go about leverage DiscussionTools primitives to invent new communication tools and experiences

Editing Team Members
- Can ensure DiscussionTools features continue to work in the ways volunteers expect while working on another, yet-to-be defined, initiative that will likely be unrelated to talk pages/DiscussionTools

TODO

A section to gather documentation work that does not yet have a dedicated task.

Document the Usability Improvement skin support we converged on in T306730 on mediawiki.org.

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T294592 [EPIC] Ensure Talk Pages Project "Phase 1" work is easy to maintain, build upon, and learn from
Open	None	T294593 Synthesize Reply Tool project page
Open	None	T270260 Better document how to use discussiontools-signature-prefix
Open	MNeisler	T295516 [SPIKE] What percentage of talk page edits are made with DiscussionTools?
Open	None	T303356 Transfer knowledge to Android and iOS Teams
Open	None	T303832 Refer to "new topic tool" consistently in documentation, not "new discussion tool"
Open	None	T262431 Put DiscussionTools / Talk pages project documentation in a consistent place
Open	None	T276607 Converge on a single DiscussionTools source mode
Resolved	ppelberg	T276608 Offer the source mode with tools as an opt-in setting
Resolved	Esanders	T257391 Add tools to DiscussionTools' source mode
Resolved	Esanders	T275950 Introduce a setting for enabling the text editing toolbar in DiscussionTools' source mode
Resolved	Ryasmeen	T276611 Pre-deployment QA: DiscussionTools source mode with tools
Resolved	ppelberg	T276614 Consult with volunteers about the prototype
Declined	ppelberg	T276635 [SPIKE] How might we record when people change the source mode toolbar setting
Resolved	None	T279122 Make volunteers aware of DiscussionTools' new source mode
Resolved	ppelberg	T279121 Undo functionality not "sticking"
Resolved	Esanders	T279124 Make config change to expose source mode with tools functionality and setting
Resolved	Esanders	T279157 Create a hidden change tag for edits made with the new source mode
Resolved	Esanders	T280745 Ensure plain text is pasted into DiscussionTools source mode
Resolved	ppelberg	T281011 Deploy the source mode with tools as an opt-in setting on the beta cluster
Resolved	ppelberg	T276609 Offer the source mode with tools as an opt-out setting
Declined	None	T276631 Analyze source mode with tools adoption
Declined	None	T279396 [SPIKE] Verify new source mode has not caused an increase in dirty diffs
Resolved	• Whatamidoing-WMF	T287314 Announce the availability of the new tools in DiscussionTools source modes
Resolved	DLynch	T287315 Revise the editing toolbar's setting language
Resolved	matmarex	T287927 Make config change to expose source mode toolbar by default
Open	None	T280066 Deprecate hidden change tag for DiscussionTools' new source mode
Open	None	T304616 Clean up DiscussionTools board
Open	None	T299819 [Qualitative] Evaluate usability improvements' impact on Junior Contributors
Declined	None	T253942 Update mw.org DiscussionTools help page
Open	None	T314200 [SPIKE] Define long-term regression testing plan for DiscussionTools
Resolved	Iniquity	T315529 Remove Reply, NewTopic and Subscriptions tools from Beta description
Resolved	matmarex	T297533 Config Change: Deploy Reply Tool as Opt-Out at fi.wiki
Resolved	ppelberg	T317375 [Config change] Deploy New Topic Tool as opt-out preference at fi.wiki (desktop)
Open	None	T249213 Create a vagrant role for discussion tools
Open	Esanders	T322497 Remove config settings for individual DiscussionTools features
Open	None	T322496 Remove the BetaFeatures integration in DiscussionTools
Open	None	T322493 Remove wgDiscussionTools_visualenhancements sub-features
Resolved	matmarex	T322495 Remove the new topic tool hint
Resolved	Esanders	T322492 Remove wgDiscussionToolsABTest config setting
Open	matmarex	T322457 Only include one set of DiscussionTools buttons in the page HTML
Open	matmarex	T280417 Converge on a single mobile talk page view
Resolved	matmarex	T310217 Evaluate usage of the "Read as as wiki page" mobile talk page view
Open	None	T325573 Introduce a setting to decide default collapse/expanded state of mobile talk page sections
Resolved	Esanders	T329474 Figure out why discussiontoolssubscribe API is marked as internal
Open	None	T331938 Enable developers to access discussion metadata via API
Resolved	Urbanecm_WMF	T343339 Mark discussiontoolsedit as stable for external users

Event Timeline

ppelberg created this task.Oct 28 2021, 7:45 PM

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ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to This Fiscal Year on the Editing-team board.Oct 28 2021, 7:45 PM

ppelberg moved this task from Backlog to Strategic Initiatives on the DiscussionTools board.Nov 3 2021, 7:54 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T270260: Better document how to use discussiontools-signature-prefix.Nov 4 2021, 3:36 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T303832: Refer to "new topic tool" consistently in documentation, not "new discussion tool".Mar 18 2022, 9:17 PM

Esanders added a subtask: T262431: Put DiscussionTools / Talk pages project documentation in a consistent place.Mar 18 2022, 10:09 PM

ppelberg renamed this task from [EPIC] Ensure Talk Pages Project "Phase 1" Work is Well Documented to [EPIC] Ensure Talk Pages Project "Phase 1" work is easy to maintain, build upon, and learn from.Mar 23 2022, 2:22 AM

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)

ppelberg added a subtask: T276607: Converge on a single DiscussionTools source mode.

ppelberg mentioned this in T303832: Refer to "new topic tool" consistently in documentation, not "new discussion tool".Mar 25 2022, 4:24 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T299819: [Qualitative] Evaluate usability improvements' impact on Junior Contributors.Apr 7 2022, 6:25 PM

ppelberg updated the task description. (Show Details)May 2 2022, 10:43 PM

matmarex subscribed.Jul 18 2022, 5:23 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T253942: Update mw.org DiscussionTools help page.Jul 29 2022, 6:13 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T315505: Create a way for apps to determine whether a permanent link exists for arbitrary comments/topics.Aug 17 2022, 11:44 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T315507: Introduce support for topic and comment permanent links within the Android and iOS apps.Aug 17 2022, 11:47 PM

ppelberg removed a subtask: T315505: Create a way for apps to determine whether a permanent link exists for arbitrary comments/topics.

ppelberg added a subtask: T315529: Remove Reply, NewTopic and Subscriptions tools from Beta description.Aug 18 2022, 6:42 PM

ppelberg added a subtask: T249213: Create a vagrant role for discussion tools.Sep 8 2022, 3:41 PM