Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-08-28
ECT 2012-08-28 Attending: RobLa, 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
- 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
- Dev community metrics
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week) edit
Chris: beta labs, New Pages Feed/Curation, hiring, vacation Guillaume: tech ambassadors, communications support, monthly report Sumana: 20% time wrangling, yearly review of Guillaume, Grace Hopper prep, Bangalore prep, volunteer encouragement, GSoC wrapup
Feature testing efforts edit
NPF/Curation is top priority right now AFTv5 still being tweaked
Beta labs edit
Antoine is on it
Community testing planning edit
async testing for NPF to be announced, no event planned Chris will announce it before he goes on vacation
20% time wrangling edit
Sumana on this but prepping for discussion at allstaff
1.20 deployment edit
remains routine (this is slightly scary, it's TOO quiet) Chris wants to work on this as a medium priority - what coverage do we have with unit tests? and what steps can we take to make deployments more risky
Git and Gerrit migration edit
nothing important for us right now
Training documentation edit
Chris on docs review team for NPF
Monthly report edit
QA is done, review at will Get your statuses in regularly!
Communications support edit
Guillaume catching up
Tech ambassadors edit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors almost ready for publication. Need to amend the "Priority activities" section (notably, based on RobLa's input) and finish catching up on related e-mail & mailing list threads before sending out announcements to avoid making any comms faux-pas. Target date: tomorrow
Engineering activity documentation edit
Activity pages and status pages are being updated as the August report is being put together. New hub for i18n team: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Internationalization_and_Localization_engineering Please add a status update for your activities for the August report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/August#Platform_Engineering
Recruiting/hiring edit
Excellent candidate in place for QA Engineer New excellent candidate for Mobile QA Excellent candidate for Outreach Note about Bug Wrangler
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania) edit
Bangalore planning - November
Conferences in general edit
Grace Hopper - need to plan
Gerrit project owner groups edit
Sumana managing
Recruitment/encouragement edit
Sumana reaching out
GSoC edit
Sumana needs to write a wrapup post -- maybe next week
Dev community metrics edit
(Claudia missing)
HR Feedback? edit
Misc edit
Sumana: in SF next week Guillaume: Possible vacation after the all staff Chris: vacation Aug 31-Sep 7