User:MaxSem/GSoC analysis
Project completion
| Year | Total | Completed & useable | Used by WMF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 2 | 2 | 1.5* |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 2010 | 6 | 4** | 1.5** |
| 2011 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 2012 | 9 | 3 | 2 |
| 2013 | 20 | 5+2*** | 5 |
| 2014 | 16 | 6.5–9 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 9+1 | 5–7 | 1+1+4 not-really |
| 2016 | 8 | 6 passed, 5 usable | 2 |
Notes:
- * Although LQT is used by several WMF wikis, it is still not ready for full-scale production use and it took a lot of effort to improve it even to this state.
- ** Gave 0.5 points to interwiki transclusion in the completed column - still not merged into trunk. Gave 0.5 points to WS legal tool for both completion and use - although it was done, it's merely a bot and not a part of MW proper or extension; also its impact for WMF projects in general was pretty small. I understand that this might be highly subjective, but such is my opinion.
- *** Gave 0.5 points to 4 projects which have published mobile apps or extensions, or have "ready" but unmerged code: they're in use by some users, but not considered completed yet. 2012 and 2013 projects in use are only those composed by a collection of bug fixes/refactorings to existing extensions.
Reasons of failures
- 2007
- Audio/video file recoding: not finished.
- 2008
- WebDAV: not finished(?), doubtful usefulness from the beginning.
- Visual Diff: lack of mentor's time?
- 2009
- MwEmbed: not finished.
- Image rendering daemon: not co-ordinated with WMF ops, lack of interest from mentor.
- 2010
- Extension management platform: not co-ordinated with WMF ops, too hard for GSoC.
- 2011
- Extension Release Management: too hard, student's personal problems.