Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-03-05
5 March 2013
editmobile file upload testing
editHow many people did we get in the exercise? (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads for rough stats )
- Quim to follow up
Success:
- how many people downloaded app for Android, weekly build & Google Play, how many people testing iOS app, how many people ewnt into beta mode & uploaded from mobile web, & how many bug reports filed that week (and how many from employees & non-). Also, was Commons community aware & involved?
- We did get strong + & - opinions from Commons folks in their Village Pump.
- After Quim gets the data, let's talk about whether this was successful & why, & how to replicate
- What made a difference? we had new releases - news during the week. Novelty attracts people.
Lua rollout
editMarch 13th (Wed) across all Wikipedias
- San Francisco Meetup on March 14: http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/106078042/ to be streamed live, put on YouTube
- http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/Lua
- Sumana working with Jan & Brad
- Quim working to talk to Lua community in Bay Area.
- Reuse talk Brad gave at the TechTalk Hangout last week
- QA? opportunity to test templates that have been ported
Everyone: Look at Village Pump:Technical on en.wp -- thread about 10-second timeout
Volunteer product management
editSumana to give Howie a description of how volunteer Product Managers have gotten involved, what costs/benefits have come with them.
- Chris wants a subject matter expert for search to help Chris get feature acceptance tests for Search; RobLa is more interested in doing some triage around the Search components in BZ. Also we have Solr knowledge around WMF, so maybe Chris should just follow up with Ram.
- MWSearch, Lucene Search, Lucene Search 2, and 1 more. Reasonably good page on wikitech.wikimedia.org . And bugs are intermittent, hard to reproduce
- RobLa thinks it's premature to run an event even 3 weeks from now. Once we get a search engineer hired, ready to start seriously moving to Solr, etc. is better.
TODO: bug triage (Andre to initially groom list of bugs), Chris to talk to Ram to get understanding of feature, find out what info he needs to get some bugs solved.
- Chad, Ram, Andre, maybe Chris to walk through the list to determine priority, deduplicate, clean up components. Chad can bring long-term perspective on search & on the BZ tickets. Maybe AFTER that, decide to run an event.
Followup included potential discussion of a Platform PM - very tentative.
Followup from quarterly review
editSumana to send summary to wikitech-l
- CRM stuff - LCA. Also: Erik: ECT must come in the next quarter with an information architecture to structure all the technical volunteer engagement.
- Quim started defining the problem -- these 2 are related. Intake, management of volunteers, evaluation of contribution. Connects with OpenHatch followup. We need to do some proper planning & subcontract the work. Not trivial projects.
- Chris to toss an idea to Quim about scalable communication.
- We're trying to balance low-touch (scalable) with high-touch (mentorship) approaches, and leverage other groups. OpenHatch, SocialCoding4Good. They all want small tasks; several, like OPW & SocialCoding4Good, also want mentorship program ideas.
- Weekend Testing Americas has new leadership and is rebooting their practice, Chris had a first conversation with new leadership Mar 4 about a possible collaboration. WTA has exercise 1st Saturday every month.
- Quim hopes to have good solution by Dec 31 2013
- Quim planning to subcontract work on
- Redesign of some key mediawiki.org pages to get a fluent intake of contributors (ref "information architecture").
- "CRM" aka volunteers management. - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/Contributors
- Automated metrics to evaluate all of the above.
Work with LCA re community advocates
- Sumana ought to chat with Maggie & Philippe while they're here in SF
LCA warns re danger if code of conduct is imposed from above Work with OpenStack to see what metrics they're using?
- Quim to look into this next week
Hiring
editMultimedia - there are 2 positions. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings
OPW interns
edit- Valerie - describing flow of "how would I know how to report a bug" on en.wp, creating image
- Maria - collecting data, creating a page to show researchers what kinds of data is available from WMF. MW group on DataHub
- Lesson to ourselves? Monthly reports to be required in future programs, to connect with the Wikimedia movement practice of monthly reports.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_basics:_the_program_impact_model
Vacations, conferences, etc.
editThis Friday is Open Source Bridge talk deadline
Željko:
- Amsterdam Hackathon 24-26 May
- Selenium Conference June 10-12
- Submitted a talk for a local open source conference (15-17 May)
- Planning to submit a talk for another local conference (06-07 September)
Chris:
- Mar 11 (Jury duty)
- Mar 18 (PTO)
- Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
- May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
- Amsterdam Hackathon
Valerie looking for an idea for Grace Hopper - March 15th is deadline
People care about our statuses!
edit- New category: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Project_status
- RSS feed: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Project_status&feed=rss&target=Category%3AProject_status
- Discussion: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Current_issues#Categorize_.22.2Fstatus.22_subpages_24401
- Are there any analytics? how do we know people are reading?
- Someone cared enough to do the above. :-)
- Pull this kind of fresh activity to the mediawiki.org homepage