Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-02
2 April 2013
editMisc reminders
edit- Reminder of Wikimedia technical search tool http://hexm.de/mw-search
- There's a way to enable this in your preferences as search in mediawiki.org
- today's skins triage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130402
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March
Mentorship
edit- Still can make it as GSOC/OPW project idea:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_the_mediawiki-bugzilla_extension_to_a_deployable_level (Mozilla + Andre?)
- I am happy to provide support but I don't see myself suddenly as a coder or reviewer. :) -- andre
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_the_mediawiki-bugzilla_extension_to_a_deployable_level (Mozilla + Andre?)
- Still can make it as OPW specific project ideas:
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Browser_Test_Automation (Željko)
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#A_proper_catalog_of_extensions (Yuri Katkov)
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Multilingual.2C_usable_and_effective_captchas (research only?)
- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#System_documentation_integrated_in_source_code (does Platform want research on this? mentor?)
- Also thinking of revamping http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub and main related pages. Mentor: could be Quim.
Amsterdam hackathon prep
edit- Anything to do?
- Outreach for more signups by 20 April?
- WMF sprints/trainings?
- Quim & Sumana to think about performance & Lua stuff with Rachel
High-priority escalations?
editThere are 3 that Andre has considered important in the last few days.
- bug 46428 - memcache split, blocks several other items
- 46401, patch awaiting review
- the http 500 error bugs
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46428,46401,46612
- Rob to check out these escalations
this weekend, we had 3 outages, and we need to improve communication around outages, Andre says. 2 of 3 were jobqueue-related.
- where were they documented?
- Etherpad for TechOps meeting yesterday, and short ops mailing list thread
- * Recent Outages
- ** 2013-03-28, Thursday - 19:40-19:43 GMT
- ** 2013-03-29, Friday 05:00 GMT
- ** 2013-03-31, Sunday - 21.20 GMT
- *** LVS - fix kernel leak / upgrade kernel ?
- Asher put in a jobqueue limit queue
- RobLa to ask Greg to follow up
Vacations/holidays
edit- Sumana part of tomorrow + part of Thursday
- Guillaume out this week
me Andre:
- a few days around Amsterdam (May 24th)
- maybe Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, June 18–21, 2013
Texas Linux Fest: deadline April 1st - http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/ , Valerie!
- maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation ?
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgil
Željko:
- May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
- 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 13-17 relocating, details TBD
- May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)