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) edit
Chris: 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 edit
Working 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 edit
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
planning OpenHatch event
20% time wrangling edit
Sumana
1.20 deployment edit
Feature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.
Git and Gerrit migration edit
Sumana managing Danielle
Bugzilla application management edit
Git 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 edit
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report edit
on 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 edit
Sumana 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) 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
Claudia 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 edit
Engineering 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) edit
Chris: 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 edit
Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps? Chris fleshing this out.
Labs Getting labs usable will take quite some time
Feature testing efforts edit
TimedMediaHandler, 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 edit
Sumana
1.20 deployment edit
Feature 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 edit
Sumana managing Danielle
Bugzilla application management edit
Have a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow.
Wikimedia blog maintenance edit
still on hold this week
Training documentation edit
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report edit
on hold until later this month
Communications support edit
Guillaume 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 edit
Sumana 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) edit
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships
Conferences in general edit
Sumana to start writing OSBridge keynote
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
Sumana starting quick postmortem
Dev community metrics edit
Mark & 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.