Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-07-24

List of projects

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
Tech ambassadors
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)

Chris: AFT productization, check bug fix for 3 power users, deployment, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements for AFT Guillaume: communications support, tech ambassadors, monthly report, chasing reliable wifi 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

Isolated AFT bug affecting small number of AFT power users to particular bit of javascript, potential fix to be deployed today, will be following up on that behavior.

Community testing planning

Contacted Visual Editor team so they know testing (both me and community) is available

20% time wrangling

Sumana (if you see something that needs doing, tell Rob while Sumana is away)

1.20 deployment

-- is becoming routine Guillaume to consider working on deployment communications plan

Git and Gerrit migration

Training documentation

New stuff from OpenHatch

Sumana: need to write checklists for Rob to follow

Monthly report

Get your statuses in regularly! Next week: Aug 1 deadline

Communications support

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

Tech ambassadors

started to assemble a list of possible ambassadors
started to put together a plan of action

Engineering activity documentation

Activity pages are being updated in parallel with the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring

Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator

Chris has inquiry from acquaintance for Bug Wrangler

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

Followup

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)

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

Conferences in general

Sumana to write blog post about OSB

Gerrit project owner groups

Sumana doing regularly - need to delegate for vacation

Recruitment/encouragement

Sumana running developer access queue, recruited others to help Sumana continuing to do this.

GSoC

Sumana need to continue, & delegate

UCOSP

Did postmortem

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

Dev community metrics

Misc

Sumana's upcoming vacation Guillaume - more asynchronous than usual till 6 Aug