@Romaine, @ResMar, here goes some background and a request to be respectful with the open and documented work that others are doing. The summary is: I think this project and its lead developer don't deserve the tone of your first posts here, feel free to learn and ask about the steps we have done, and by all means please bring all the specific objections you might have about this project.

Since 2013, I have been advocating for a newsletter type of functionality for MediaWiki, to be deployed in Wikimedia servers (if you want me to dig in wikitech-l archives, I will). Anybody working on a project in our context knows about the difficulty of setting up one-to-many communications with regular Internet users, not necessarily familiar with watching pages (and following watchlists) or subscribing to services MassMessage style.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Newsletter was created on 10 September 2013‎, after I proposed @Siebrand to fork the code related to notifications in the Translate extension. That path didn't progress further.

After some discussions in the context of MassMessage tasks, it was clear that that project would not be the solution for this use case. In 28 November 2014 I created this task. 

The rest can be read in this task. On 10 February 2015 I proposed it as a #Possible-Tech-Project, and from that point it entered the community review process. @01tonythomas (a former GSoC student, sticking around) volunteered as technical mentor. @Tinaj1234 stepped in as a Google Summer of Code candidate, together with several other students. Tina was selected, and we started to work following the GSoC deadlines. We had a couple of scheduled sessions at the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon on May, in June we contacted all the newsletter admins we found in several Wikimedia projects... 

I'm sorry you received such notifications in your busiest time, but I hope you understand that we cannot wait for the best spot in everybody's agendas. In terms of communication and feedback, I think we have covered the minimum and more.

As of today this GSoC is actually completed, awaiting only its evaluation. We are already discussing the next steps, which include addressing the open tasks, and go through the process to have this extension deployed in Beta, Meta, and then we'll see. Even if you just joined the discussion now, you still have time and chances to bring your feedback and objections.

This is about the project. Now let me add something about the developer that has put hundreds of hours on it in the past months. @Romaine @ResMar,  our new developers deserve a welcoming attitude from all of us. Especially when they are volunteers and interns in programs like GSoC, where Wikimedia decides to participate with a tailored community review process. Nobody knows whether these newcomers will be around in three years. And by the way, the same could be said about all of us (yourselves included) when you joined, and still today.

But you know what? In this specific case it is not even accurate to call @tinaj12143 a newcomer. [[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:%22Tinaj1234+%253Ctinajohnson.1234%2540gmail.com%253E%22,n,z | Her first patches ]] for Wikimedia were uploaded on December 2013 and since then she has got code merged in MediaWiki core and some extensions. She has a [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tinaj1234 | user account in mediawiki.org ]] since February 2014, when she started to prepare a GSoC proposal. She wasn't accepted because another candidate was chosen for the same project instead (@wctaiwan, who is another example of a GSoC student sticking around until today). So really, Tina has shown a remarkable level of commitment and perseverance even before the end of her GSoC internship.