Topic on Talk:Developer Wishlist

Thanks @James and @Quim for getting this started!

Two initial ideas for the process:

1. just ape the CT wishlist. Same format, same voting system, ask the CT team to run the proposal randomizer bot for us.

   Pro: little effort, proven to work, relatively nitpicking-safe, wikitext is good at presenting long discussions in a very concise manner

   Con: probably a barrier to entry for devs who are not editors themselves, we don't learn much about voters

2. run the first phase of the CT wishlist (solicit wishes and have discussions about them), possibly in Phabricator instead of a wiki, then set up a simple form (Google Forms?) for getting votes + demographic information of voters (core contributor? works with MediaWiki how often? for money? etc) + maybe information about the specific vote (how often are you obstructed by this issue?)

   Pro: more inclusive (I think?), gives a lot of information that's good for prioritizing, helps us understand what kind of people use MediaWiki which is something we know embarrassingly little about

   Con: voting is not transparent (if we actually make use of the extra information then not really a voting at all), lot of effort to process all the feedback

Let's go for wishes proposed directly in Phabricator, which saves a lot of centralized work for the organizers and avoids duplication.

This should not condition how we want to vote. All options are still open, including classical votes in wiki pages. That deserves a discussion on its own, that we can have while people submit their wishes.

Sure, let's go for it. Want to work on the announcement?