Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-03-20
TLDR meeting, 20 March 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Chris McMahon Guillaume on vacation RobLa - experimenting with letting him sleep in :-)
List of projects edit
- Project plan for QA testing
- QA FY 2013 planning
- Code review meistering
- 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
- Git and Gerrit migration
- SWIFT deployment support
- TMH testing
- Editor Engagement testing
- Bug Triage
- Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
- Testing infrastructure
- Bugzilla application management
- Wikimedia blog maintenance
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering project documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
- Conferences in general
- Commit Access
- Recruitment/encouragement
- GSOC
- UCOSP
- Dev community metrics
Who's doing what (this week) edit
Chris: Project plan for QA testing, QA fiscal year 2013 planning, testing project for TimedMediaHandler, working with Antoine to get testing infrastructure in place on Labs, testing Editor Engagement software Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruiting & encouragement Guillaume: off this week RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment followup, Git migration, Budget, meetings meetings meetings Sumana: Commit access, volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git)
Project plan for QA testing edit
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing Chris to talk to Siebrand/Niklas
Fiscal Year 2013 planning edit
Rob, Sumana, Chris have to have prelim plans by 20 March Rob & Sumana disappearing much of today & tomorrow
Code review meistering edit
Unreviewed code will get into Gerrit, get reviewed there.
1.19 stuff: deployment & release support edit
How did the triage go?
We got the # of bugs down from about 38 to 4, for the tarball Mark to track someone down for these
Git and Gerrit migration edit
We have the opportunity to do more training. Set expectations: March-April: more training, productivity hit
a top priority for sumana chasing a bunch of work
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=22596&hide_resolved=0
SWIFT deployment support edit
Trying to move to Swift originals at end of May, effort soon (this month) to test it on deployment infrastructure
Chris trying to keep in Ben's loop re this
TimedMediaHandler testing edit
Dev is complete, extension is available on Commons Lab, there's a bit of a test plan
Editor Engagement testing edit
Chris met with Fabrice et al., figuring out stuff. There are features in various states of progress being tracked in lots of different docs. Chris meeting with Ian. This is pretty high priority
Bug Triage edit
Mark is seeing significant issues with API & Gadgets. Mark to plan triage about it this week. Thurs or Fri
Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom) edit
hiatus this week
Testing infrastructure edit
Emulation wikis on Commons - updating of wikis to new versions, undocumented ad hoc process. Chris aims to get that standardized, and aims to eventually make those the standard testing env for staff, volunteers, & Chris http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
Beta Labs! continuing. Chris coordinating with Timo & Antoine
Bugzilla application management edit
Git integration
Wikimedia blog maintenance edit
(G on vacation)
Training documentation edit
Nothing this week
Monthly report edit
Please continue to add updates for your work as regularly as possible.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/March (G on vacation)
Communications support edit
(G on vacation)
Engineering project documentation edit
(G on vacation)
Recruiting/hiring edit
Rob; not in this meeting
Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania) edit
Sumana doing general planning, figuring out Berlin attendance
Conferences in general edit
Various talks have been submittedl OSBridge CfP now open till 30 March
Commit Access edit
Sumana wrote giant email, needs to revise some mediawiki.org pages http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/59681
Recruitment/encouragement edit
Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
GSoC edit
Approved; Monday 26th is when formal proposals will start coming in
UCOSP edit
Wiktionary template social engineering held up on friction with the Wiktionary community
Dev community metrics edit
On hold, waiting for Claudia to do some Bugzilla-related stuff in March
Misc edit
- Chris out of office Thurs & Fri
- Rob out-of-office week of Mar 26
- Guillaume: vacation / travel March 15th–25th
Mark leaving us, end of May