Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-06-19
Attending: Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects
edit- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
- Feature testing efforts
- Community testing planning
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- 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
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week)
editChris: significant AFT deployment today. Try to book some of Fabrices time to talk about testing EE and whether to do that in Labs, since other avenues haven't been fruitful. Got the QA Engineer interview process unstuck, monitoring that. One phone interview yesterday and one more later this week.
Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania prep 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, HR feedback Claudia: Dev community metrics
Feature testing efforts
editTimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)
Community testing planning
editOpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? (Sometime this week would be good)
Note: bug triage on issues reported from Openhatch event this afternoon. Will be in #wikimedia-dev right after the AFT deployment 1pm Pacific, 30 min?
- TODO: Chris to email OpenHatch lists
Parveen working on training
20% time wrangling
editSumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)
1.20 deployment
editGit and Gerrit migration
editWikimedia blog maintenance
editstill on hold
Training documentation
editsomewhat updated more in early July
Monthly report
editthe May report was eventually published last week Next week the fun resumes for the June report...
Communications support
editGuillaume continues to follow up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.
Engineering activity documentation
editGuillaume followed up with Rob Moen's (and wikitech-l) about his assessment JS tool for wikitech.wm.o
Recruiting/hiring
editSumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator
got contract help for Wikimania hackathon!
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review. Tech and panel interviews in progress for four candidates.
Wikimania
edit- deprioritized last week
- Guillaume: presentation prep on hold for the last 2 weeks, resumed this week
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
editSumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep
Conferences in general
editSumana to continue writing OSBridge keynote
Chris considering CFP for Rocky Mountain Ruby re: starting a browser automation project for WMF. will talk to Rob about it tomorrow.
SMWCon
Gerrit project owner groups
editSumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
editSumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.
GSoC
editSumana need to continue
UCOSP
editSumana starting quick postmortem
- TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email
Dev community metrics
edit- Mark & Chris successfully talked to Claudia :) - setting up R<>BugzillaAPI connection - collecting information to Bugzilla Management (setting up the "wall") - analyzing the development of patch submissions over the last years
Misc
edit- Sumana in SF June 20-24, then Portland last week of June