Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-06-19

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) edit

Chris: 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 edit

TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)

Community testing planning edit

OpenHatch 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 edit

Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)

1.20 deployment edit

Git and Gerrit migration edit

Wikimedia blog maintenance edit

still on hold

Training documentation edit

somewhat updated more in early July

Monthly report edit

the May report was eventually published last week Next week the fun resumes for the June report...

Communications support edit

Guillaume continues to follow up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Engineering activity documentation edit

Guillaume followed up with Rob Moen's (and wikitech-l) about his assessment JS tool for wikitech.wm.o

Recruiting/hiring edit

Sumana 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) edit

Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep

Conferences in general edit

Sumana 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 edit

Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement edit

Sumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.

GSoC edit

Sumana need to continue

UCOSP edit

Sumana 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