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Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-07-17

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Engineering Community Team meeting, 17 July, 2012


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
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communications support
  • Engineering activity documentation
  • Recruiting/hiring
  • Wikimania
  • Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania, future)
    • Conferences in general
  • Gerrit project owner groups
  • Recruitment/encouragement
    • GSOC
    • UCOSP
  • Dev community metrics
  • HR feedback


Who's doing what (this week) edit

Chris: AFT productization, deployment, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements, automation Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania follow-up 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics

Feature testing efforts edit

-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 10% of enwiki + IE7 support -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now -- AFTv5 live on labs beta, need to make it usable now, have a use case in hand

Community testing planning edit

no plan currently Visual Editor? Talk to James Forrester

20% time wrangling edit

Sumana

1.20 deployment edit

-- is becoming routine

Git and Gerrit migration edit

Training documentation edit

New stuff from OpenHatch

  • Sumana: need to write checklists for Rob to follow

Monthly report edit

Get your statuses in regularly!

Communications support edit

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

Engineering activity documentation edit

Nothing to report

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 finished for four candidates.


Wikimania edit

Followup?

Guillaume:

  • clearing e-mail/watchlist backlog
  • follow up on contacts

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

Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon followup, need to do SF & Berlin followup,

Conferences in general edit

Sumana to write blog post about OSB

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

Did postmortem

  • Sumana: to email wikitech-l and other groups about future projects

Dev community metrics edit

Misc edit

Sumana's upcoming vacation Guillaume - starting in 2-3 days, more asynchronous than usual till 6 Aug

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