Engineering Community Team/Planning/2014/04

March 2014

Engineering Community Team — Monthly planning, April 2014

May 2014

April 2014

Sumana

• RFC-writing/editing/coordination:
  • run four RFC meetings Status:    Done
  • develop and publish draft of performance guidelines Status:    In progress
  • develop and publish draft of security guidelines Status:    In progress
  • develop and publish draft of architecture guidelines Status:    In progress
  • send SOA/REST explanation to mailing list Status:    Done
• Mentor OPW intern Status:    In progress

Guillaume

• Assemble and publish the engineering report for March. Status:    Done
• Follow up on support requests (e.g. blog post reviews). Status:    Done
• Get the weekly tech newsletter assembled, published, translated and delivered (with help). Status:    Done
• (With Andre) (Continued from March) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Done (Requests for comment/Phabricator concluding)
• Organize ECT documentation pages. Status:    Done (Template:Engineering Community Team)
• Set up the transclusion of m:Tech/News on mediawiki.org. Status:    Done (Template:Latest tech news)

Quim

• start Google Summer of Code 2014 and FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 -- Status:    Done
• push mediawiki.org homepage redesign to get community approval-- Status:    Not done
• coordinate Facebook Open Academy -- Status:    Not done
  • co-mentor the OpenBadges project -- Status:    Not done
• Google Code-In blog post (moved from January) -- Status:    Not done (Strainu volunteered)
• complete descriptions and help of the five key performance indicators -- Status:    Not done
• draft strategy aligning Developer_hub and Data & Developer Hub -- Status:    Not done
• agree the strategy behind Upstream projects -- Status:    Not done
• agree Zürich Hackathon 2014 goals and pre-schedule -- Status:    Done
• create a simple process to schedule an event and test it with one Tech Talk and one SF meetup.Status:    Done
• document process for non-WMF contributors requesting shell access -- Status:    Not done
• create and handle Wikimedia Phabricator RfC and Upstream to Phabricator.org projects as part of the Phabricator RfC.Status:    Done
• restart Tech Talks, SF meetups, Bug Days. Status:    Done

Andre

• (With Guillaume) (Continued from March) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Done - RfC started on 2014-04-14
• (With Guillaume) Have another IRC office hour about Project management tools Status:    Done on 2014-04-17 and 2014-04-22
• Gather more feedback on rebooted Annoying little bugs after GSoC start Status:    In progress - Andre sent an email to five GCI mentors on 2014-04-24 and received three answers
• Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status:    Not done -- postponed to May
• Have a bugday in the second half of April Status:    Done: on 2014-04-29 about General MediaWiki, see Bug management/Triage/20140429