Re: Web Platform Wednesdays

This all sounds really good. I'm going to get stuck into my properties right now.

Chris Mills
Opera Software, dev.opera.com
W3C Fellow, web education and webplatform.org
Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" (http://goo.gl/AKf9M)

On 6 May 2013, at 09:12, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks-
> 
> To help us get started with our new systematic push for breaking down CSS property contributions into bite-sized morsels, I took the liberty of creating a basic infrastructure.
> 
> What I've done:
> * Wrote up a project page [1] for Web Platform Wednesdays (or "WPD Wednesdays"?), describing the goals and specific tasks and articles, and settled on some terminology and methodology
> 
> * Simplified the CSS properties spreadsheet and made it into a sortable table in the wiki [2] (for contributor consumption... the coordinators can still keep track of everything in the spreadsheet)
> 
> * Added topic clusters for 2/3 of the properties, with a focus on P0-P2 priority items (but still needs work and review); announcing specific topics (as identified by these topic clusters) will help us get contributors, since it will be a concrete and identifiable goal ("Oh, hey, I can write an example for outline properties!")
> 
> * Created a task outline page [3] for keeping track of contributors and tasks on a weekly basis; the plan is to have one such page for each week
> 
> * Updated the Site Notice to call for CSS contributors to our new Web Platform Wednesdays page
> 
> 
> What we need:
> * Badge for "CSS Beta Hero" and "Beta Coordinator"
> 
> * Finalize this week's target articles
> 
> * Finish (and confirm) topic clusters
> 
> * Add URLs to each property article (some missing, most don't link directly to ID for property section)
> 
> * Write blog article (started)
> 
> * Figure out how we're going to represent this in the project management/issue tracker system (if at all)
> 
> * Integrate this into our existing "getting started/editor's guide" workflow documentation
> 
> * Create stubs for each article for this week (or better yet, make a script to do that for all articles)
> 
> 
> I think we should aim for 20 articles per week. That may seem ambitious, but I think we're better off inspiring contributors (especially volunteers) with a challenge, rather than limp along. If every one of the coordinators did 1 page a week themselves (if that's not too much to ask), that would be about a quarter to a half of the pages for that week (depending on how many coordinators we have each week).
> 
> It's important to note that the work will probably not get done on Wednesday... that's just a coordination day, and we should accommodate volunteers who need help on any other day, too... as much as we can.
> 
> We will get some people who want to contribute, and sign up for a slot, but get busy and can't complete it that week. We should come up with a way to deal with that.
> 
> 
> [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Meta:web_platform_wednesday
> [2] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Meta:web_platform_wednesday/master_list
> [3] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Meta:web_platform_wednesday/2013-05-08
> 
> 
> Regards-
> -Doug

Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:30:44 UTC