Talk:Wikimedia Engineering/2012-13 Goals

"integration of collaborative editing work from GSoC student, if applicable"

awesome! What is this brave student's name? Is there a page for this project yet?

Adamw (talk) 23:12, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ashish Dubey -- see User:Dash1291/GSoC 2012 Application, which I'll link to. Thanks. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

IPv6
See en:Wikipedia:WikiProject IPv6. I think IPv6 is an important goal here. It sure wouldn't be good for the WMF's PR if we miss World IPv6 Launch.Jasper Deng (talk) 03:43, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * But World IPv6 Day is 6 June 2012, which is before 1 July 2012 (the start of the 2012-2013 fiscal year). So you wouldn't be seeing that in these plans, which are for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator (talk) 12:07, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * But let's say that we miss it. Surely IPv6 will still require lots of activity after the launch.Jasper Deng (talk) 19:29, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

previous goals?
I know about the page "Roadmap" and the strategy wiki's "product whitepaper", but is there anything like a "2011-2012 Goals" page so we can see how past planning/prioritisation efforts have gone - so we can assess the scale of what's actually achievable in a 12 month period? I think all of the things that are listed here are great and would be brilliant if we had them, but is it feasible that even a majority of them can actually be delivered on time? Looking at the "big picture" section of this page there are 7 key areas, the first one of which is a massive undertaking just by itself [modernise the editor]. Don't you think that trying to do that in parallel with all the other things is likely to be a classic case of "biting off more than we can chew"? I'd love to see the budget approved to achieve all this, but I'd hate to for it to look like a plan that is over-promising and likely to under-deliver. Wittylama (talk) 05:36, 2 April 2012 (UTC)