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)
editChris: 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
edithttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing Chris to talk to Siebrand/Niklas
Fiscal Year 2013 planning
editRob, Sumana, Chris have to have prelim plans by 20 March Rob & Sumana disappearing much of today & tomorrow
Code review meistering
editUnreviewed code will get into Gerrit, get reviewed there.
1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
editHow 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
editWe 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
editTrying 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
editDev is complete, extension is available on Commons Lab, there's a bit of a test plan
Editor Engagement testing
editChris 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
editMark 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)
edithiatus this week
Testing infrastructure
editEmulation 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
editGit integration
Wikimedia blog maintenance
edit(G on vacation)
Training documentation
editNothing this week
Monthly report
editPlease 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
editRob; not in this meeting
Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
editSumana doing general planning, figuring out Berlin attendance
Conferences in general
editVarious talks have been submittedl OSBridge CfP now open till 30 March
Commit Access
editSumana wrote giant email, needs to revise some mediawiki.org pages http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/59681
Recruitment/encouragement
editSumana & Mark continuing to do this.
GSoC
editApproved; Monday 26th is when formal proposals will start coming in
UCOSP
editWiktionary template social engineering held up on friction with the Wiktionary community
Dev community metrics
editOn 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