Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-05-08
Engineering Community Team meeting, 8 May 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?
List of projects
edit- Testing infrastructure/automation
- Feature testing efforts
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- Bugzilla application management
- Wikimedia blog maintenance
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Wikimania
- 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)
editChris: In SF for Labs work. Weekend Testing retrospective, QA hires discussion. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, blog maintenance 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
editWorking on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.
Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps?
Feature testing efforts
editTimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
planning OpenHatch event
20% time wrangling
editSumana
1.20 deployment
editFeature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.
Git and Gerrit migration
editSumana managing Danielle
Bugzilla application management
editGit integration work on hold for next bug wrangler
Wikimedia blog maintenance
edit- Some minor (and overdue) changes to the theme, now deployed to production
- going through the initial pains of the wikimedia-flavored git/gerrit process and wrapping my head around it
Training documentation
editContractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report
editon hold until later this month
Communications support
edit- blog team office hours (Wednesday)
- discussions about how to encourage engineering staff to blog on the WMF blog and not on 3rd party sites (today)
Engineering activity documentation
edit- starting to plan wikitech cleanup
Recruiting/hiring
editSumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Wikimania
edit- Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation
Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
editSumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships
Conferences in general
editGerrit project owner groups
editSumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
editSumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people
GSoC
editMentors mentoring community bonding period
UCOSP
edit- TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem
Dev community metrics
editClaudia is working with the Bugzilla API because she can't get the full database dump because of the restrictions re the private bugs Mark will set up a separate meeting with Claudia & maybe with Chris since he wants to learn more about the BZ API
- TODO: Mark to set up separate Claudia & Chris meeting
Misc
edit- Chris - in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
- Guillaume:
tentative vacation 16-18 Maypossible day or two off in May to move, (around a week-end) - Sumana: some offline time Wed & Thurs, some time off late next week
- Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.
archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012
16 May 2012
editEngineering Community Team meeting, 16 May 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?
List of projects
edit- Testing infrastructure/automation
- Feature testing efforts
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- Bugzilla application management
- Wikimedia blog maintenance
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Wikimania
- 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)
editChris: Labs followup. QA interviews. (ties in with labs). Feature testing efforts 1.20wmf3 ongoing deployments. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, communications support 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
editBlog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps? Chris fleshing this out.
Labs Getting labs usable will take quite some time
Feature testing efforts
editTimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
AFT testing, bringing Tauhida up to speed. AFT test plan for June 9. improve EE test env?
planning OpenHatch event - June 9th, Sat, 10am
20% time wrangling
editSumana
1.20 deployment
editFeature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.
manual testing of critical extensions -- Chris
Git and Gerrit migration
editSumana managing Danielle
Bugzilla application management
editHave a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow.
Wikimedia blog maintenance
editstill on hold this week
Training documentation
editContractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report
editon hold until later this month
Communications support
editGuillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.
Engineering activity documentation
edit- planning wikitech cleanup; probably going to use a gadget to assess pages, such as the one used by WikiProjects to assess articles
Recruiting/hiring
editSumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Chris working on QA engineer hiring
- TODO: Sumana & Rob - work on job descriptions
Wikimania
edit- deprioritized last week
- Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation
- Sumana & Rob & Guillaume to take a start at transparency talk next week? (May 21)
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
editSumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships
Conferences in general
editSumana to start writing OSBridge keynote
Gerrit project owner groups
editSumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
editSumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people
GSoC
editMentors mentoring community bonding period
UCOSP
editSumana starting quick postmortem
Dev community metrics
editMark & Chris talked to Claudia - waiting for new questions from her
Misc
edit- Guillaume: 1 day off this week spread throughout the week to visit apartments. Possible day or two off later in May to move (around a week-end)
- Sumana: some offline time Thursday - Friday & Monday, in SF
- Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.