Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-05-01

Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects edit

  • Testing infrastructure/automation
  • Feature testing efforts
  • 20% time wrangling
  • 1.19 tarball
  • 1.20 deployment
  • Git and Gerrit migration
  • Bugzilla application management
  • Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communications support
  • Engineering activity 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: Highest priority: Feature Test Charters for Weekend Testing May 5, Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts, 1.20 testing, SF visit for test env. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: monthly report RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.20 deployment Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, Developer access, 20% time wrangling Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity


Testing infrastructure/automation edit

Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Blog post?

Blog post forthcoming from SF next week perhaps?

Feature testing efforts edit

TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

Tauhida?

Labs problems with TMH

would like to do a testing project with OpenHatch for AFT, replied to email -early June, AFT testing, OH Chris in charge of this

20% time wrangling edit

Sumana

1.19 tarball edit

(nothing from us this week)

1.20 deployment edit

Have preliminary Release Notes, Feature Test Charters, to be finalized today, hopefully after fixing Special:Version


Git and Gerrit migration edit

  • Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info


Bugzilla application management edit

Git integration?

Wikimedia blog maintenance edit

on hold this week

Training documentation edit

Contractor to work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report edit

Guillaume sprinting on this this week

Communications support edit

on hold this week

Engineering activity documentation edit

pages updated while putting together the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring edit

Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

QA Engineer position should go public RSN

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania) edit

Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general edit

Gerrit project owner groups edit

Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement edit

Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC edit

Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP edit

  • TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics edit

- working on checking the validity of the bug database (created from data provided by Mark) - still differences in result set from database and the bugzilla api, a lot of preparation stuff such as setting up postgresConnection in R - papers collected and partially reviewed but not documented yet - to summarize: did a lot of useful but not very successful (showable) stuff - hope there will be better/more news next week


Misc edit

  • Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
  • Guillaume: tentative vacation 16-18 May
  • Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.