Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-03-27
TLDR meeting, 27 March 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume Chris ill RobLa - vacation
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
- Gerrit project owner groups
- 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: Monthly report, catching up, Berlin arrangements RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment followup, Git migration, Budget, meetings meetings meetings Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git), Gerrit project ownership
Chris edit
Chris is out of the office today and says: "Went to Test Automation Bazaar, learned a lot. Spiked browser automation Trying to work with labs, which is slow and UploadWizard is failing"
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 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#Wikimedia_technical_community https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#QA_Engineering_and_Continuous_Integration
Code review meistering edit
The new Git has awesomely negated the need for this? Or should I just prod things towards merging. finding stale commits turning patches into branches extension review queue deploy shorturl?
1.19 stuff: deployment & release support edit
last couple of bugs being addressed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi?resolution=---&target_milestone=1.19.0%20release
Git and Gerrit migration edit
Sumana to do more project management here
chasing a bunch of work
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=22596&hide_resolved=0
SWIFT deployment support edit
(Chris not in this call)
TimedMediaHandler testing edit
(Chris not in this call)
Editor Engagement testing edit
(Chris not in this call)
Bug Triage edit
API triage? -- fail from lack of publicity or interest
next time: try individual outreach to DarTar, other API people, mediawiki-api mailing list
Git triage? -- what would we cover? doesn't look like any new bugs are there. There will be by Thurs :-)
Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom) edit
Will see if anything needs handling right now. need to look at 1.20 roadmap and figure out what to target. can wait till next week
Testing infrastructure edit
(Chris not in this call)
Bugzilla application management edit
Git integration? API doesn't have the stuff in it that Mark wants.... there might be another approach
Wikimedia blog maintenance edit
Probably still on hold this week in favor of the Monthly report; should be resumed next week
Training documentation edit
Nothing this week Coming up in April: work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs & security training docs
Monthly report edit
This week is the last week of the month, so please make sure there is a status update for your projects, ideally today
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/March
Communications support edit
Nothing this week, except maybe processing the staff photos if time allows
Engineering project documentation edit
Guillaume updating pages while putting together the monthly report Sumana to improve https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Gerrit_project_ownership and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Labsconsole_accounts and ask for Guillaume's help if she can't figure it out
Recruiting/hiring edit
Rob; not in this meeting
Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania) edit
Sumana doing general planning, making Berlin reg form
Conferences in general edit
Various talks have been submittedl OSBridge CfP now open till 30 March.
Gerrit project owner groups edit
Sumana needs to start regular ownership-addition procedure
Recruitment/encouragement edit
Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
GSoC edit
Proposals are coming in. Sumana needs to do some administrative work re mentors, students, backup admin
UCOSP edit
Wiktionary template social engineering held up on friction with the Wiktionary community checked in with Amgine
Dev community metrics edit
On hold, waiting for Claudia to do some Bugzilla-related stuff in March (Claudia told me that her focus has really been elsewhere so she hasn't had time to do this.)
Misc edit
Renaming group
- Chris out of office today
- Rob out-of-office this week