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March 19th

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General requests

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Previous volunteer events

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Mobile upload: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_QA/Commons_uploads#Results 

   Number of people who tried to upload at least one picture (new users): 34. 9 for iOS and 28 for Android.

   21 non-WMF people used the mobile web upload features, and they uploaded a total of 30 images.

QA: Browser automation testing for Wikipedia Search http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features Was it successful? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features#Evaluation

  • Chris wanted to see ~10 edits to the backlog page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Qa/test_backlog
    • 6 scenarios added from the exercise
  • How many people whom we didn't expect make the edits? And how many of them are not WMFers? Goal: 5 scenarios written by 5 volunteers
    • 7 participants, one not connected to WMF
    • "7" includes Valerie & Sucheta.
  • Note: the IRC channel was observed, and at least one non-participant IRC observer complimented the exercise.

In the future: let's try doing it in longer form, not so synchronous

Next volunteer event

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What's the next exercise? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar How will we do outreach?

  • Features testing partnering with Weekend Testing scheduled Apr 6, targeting E3 projects "New Tools for New Users" or similar . Public announcements week of Mar 25.
  • predefine what data we want so we can get it from partner teams better

OPW wrapup

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  • Quim has set up meetings with all mentor/mentee pairs, an all-hands at end

Search bugs

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Search is nominally functioning on beta labs, but should be tested using enwiki as a reference. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34250 Andre at some point wants to push for consensus to reduce # of search components in BZ

  • ask Ram & Chad

Bugzilla admin rights

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From February conversation:

Come up with guidelines and requirements who should be Bugzilla admin and why. Nothing in place currently, number growing -> coordination and security issue, plus do non-employees need an NDA? RFC planned for later this week by Andre.

Followup?

  • No feedback by Geoff. Philippe said that an NDA is definitely needed (Bugzilla admin = access to Security bug reports), and "whether we want to even allow it" (non-WMF Bugzilla admins) "at all, that's an Engineering decision", so the ball is back in our court.
    • Is it possible to have a lower level of access than admin that will still be helpful?
    • Decision: Andre to come up with proposed policy and bring it up at an Ops meeting, where they will probably agree, and then implement it.

Vacations & conferences

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Andre:

  • Easter Holidays from Fri March29 - Mon April01 (that's public holidays here)

OSBridge talk deadline extended http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/03/were-extending-our-call-for-proposals/ Saturday, March 23 at 11:59 p.m. Texas Linux Fest: deadline April 1st

maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation ?

Consider http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/ , Valerie! Željko: 

   out of office for Platform Engineering team meeting this week, attending local bi-monthly software tester's meetup

   May 24-26, Amsterdam Hackathon

   June 10-12, Selenium Conference

   Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)

Chris: 

   Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)

   May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)

   May 24-26 Amsterdam Hackathon

   Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)

Sumana:

  • Somewhat out of communication Thursday & Friday due to SMWCon in NYC
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