Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-09

April 9th

RobLa, were you able to ask Greg to follow up re outage incident reports?
- Greg will not have it as a high urgent priority, but in the long run it is important. RobLa to talk to Greg.
Andre, anything new?
- Nothing really urgent
- some thumbnail cache purging issues again: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46976 (pinged on IRC, email to ops@)
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46836,46834 not urgent but waiting for attention / assignee (FlaggedRevs, ResLoader)
- Localisation update problem may still be an issue right now

using #wikimedia-office - preferred to #wikimedia-dev, less noisy
greeting every person who shows up (check hostmask for possible regulars versus newbies)
what kinds of promotion have been effective? ambassadors list? emailing specific interested people?
- can we let people subscribe to something so we can send a notification back?
  - Ask Alex Monk/Krenair re Echo
- BZ - ping reporters. We have a magic URL for "YOUR reports"
specific steps & tasks

Filling in Platform & Ops in QA amenability spreadsheet
- https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agte_lJNpi-OdGpJSHdMZV83UjdTdHc5UFVrdXBwaWc#gid=0
  - The way we handle unit testing in Platform is different enough from other bits that priority will not be very useful for that - it's up to dev teams to do the bulk of the work on unit testing; Antoine provides generalized infrastructure. In Platform, we should focus activities on the first 3 columns.
  - Chris to publish QA work-in-progress and/or roadmap to PMs (etc.) based on this doc. (Greg does a similar thing, speaking with him about ways&means)
  - Chris to publish "when to bring in QA" guide/best practice/outline. (See FYI below?)
Bugzilla admin rights
- have some been removed? what's the policy re NDA?
  - Andre has removed some (24 -> 18), still on it, been on the backburner. Policy: Not started yet.

April 30th is the submission deadline; What shall we submit?

https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
- Quim & Andre each to submit a standalone thing? Maybe merge them into 1 ECT "state of the union"? Single session is nicer to the organizers

Quim wants to organize a couple of surveys:

Quantitative and mostly "external": best timings and channels for QA activities.
Qualitative and mostly WMF: best ways for QA activities to contribute to development efforts.
- Qualtrics

me Andre:

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)
maybe August 14-18, JRubyConf (August 14-15) + European Ruby Camp (August 16-18), both in Berlin, Germany

Chris: