Engineering Community Team/Planning/2014/05

April 2014

Engineering Community Team — Monthly planning, May 2014

June 2014

May 2014

Sumana

• Finish Performance guidelines. Status:    Done
• Mentor Frances Hocutt (start of OPW). Status:    Done
• Get Architecture guidelines 50% complete. Status:    In progress
• Get Security for developers/Architecture 75% complete. Status:    In progress
• Deliver WCA keynote (May 30). Status:    Done
• Organize three architecture meetings/RFC reviews. Status:    Done

Guillaume

• Assemble and publish the engineering report for April. 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) Bring Requests for comment/Phabricator to a decision. Status:    Done
• Rewrite the activity pages system and templates using Lua to make transclusion less fragile. Status:    Started, continued in June
• Improve Wikimedia Engineering portals to show more up-to-date information automatically (and be prettier) Status:    Started, continued in June

Quim

• Complete Wikimedia Hackathon 2014 -- Status:    Done
• kick-off Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1 -- Status:    Done
• initial sync of Google Summer of Code 2014 and FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 participants-- 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
• document process for non-WMF contributors requesting shell access -- Status:    Not done, will be delegated to Rachel
• Process to request the organization of Wikimedia hackathons in Europe and Asia in 2014-15 -- Status:    Done

Andre

• (With Guillaume) Close Phabricator RfC, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Done, see email
• Phabricator: Identify "heavy topics" and blockers (vs. acceptable trade-offs) that must be fixed before starting a migration to Phabricator. Status:    Done, see board
• Phabricator: Act on top items in the "Doing" column for Phabricator migration Status:    In progress
• Have sessions on Phabricator RfC and bug triage at Zürich Hackathon 2014 Status:    Done (though dropped triage in favor of three Phab sessions)
• Act on feedback received on rebooted Annoying little bugs page Status:    In progress -- some improvements on 2014-05-20
• Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status:    Not done
• Have a bugday either on bugs with higher priority in MediaWiki, or testing the new PDF Renderer once a test instance exists Status:    Not done - pinged on wikitech-l@ about PDF renderer status