Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W03

Features team meeting

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Amir

Last week:

• Mobile app testing.
• Set up and learn PHP unit.
• Set up and learn QUnit.
• Planning for writing QUnit tests for WebFonts.

This week:

• Writing tests for WebFonts.

Blockers:

Andrew

Last week:

• at school

This week:

• at school

Blockers:

Arthur

Last week:

• on vacation

This week:

• FR cleanup

Blockers:

Benny

Last week:

• FeedbackDashboard Top responders leaderboard
• Unanswered filter for feedback dashboard
• Implemented Concurrency API

This week:

• Surface MarkAsHelpful on FeedbackDashboard page
• Email copy update to feedbackdashboard response email
• Deployment & Testing of Moodbar & Concurrency

Blockers:

Brandon

Last week:

This week:

• SOPA blackout design

Blockers:

Brion

Last week:

• on mobile

This week:

• on mobile

Blockers:

Dario

Last week:

• [AFT] uploaded to toolserver new comment streams/dashboard per article: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft5/articles/?p=Global+warming
• [AFT] reviewed early findings from hand-coding with Aaron and Oliver, results suggest no statistically significant difference across three design based on useful/not useful distinction, will dig into this further this week
• [AFT] caught bug in AFT5 that affected clicktracking data and worked with Reha/Roan on patch
• [AFT] post-mortem of AFT5 backend bugs. Reviewed with Alolita, Fabrice and Howie general plan for testing of backend and data collection for new features
• [clicktracking] started project with Ryan Faulkner to explore automated testing of clickthrough data across features
• [account creation] started documentation on Meta for account creation referral research project
• [open data] 2 interviews with journalists interested in our open data plans and data consultation

This week

• [AFT] wrap up hand-coding work with Aaron/Oliver
• [clicktracking] deploy patch for AFT5 (done)
• [clicktracking] review clicktracking data after patch is released
• [FD] stats on clickthrough data for email notifications
• [FD] review research plan with Aaron
• [other] off to a conference in NC the rest of the week (hosting a session on Wikipedia expert review/engagement)

Blockers:

• I'll be online/reading email during the conference but I don't expect to be able to work during the sessions

Gabriel

Last week:

• Worked on template expansion and support for it in token transforms, mostly works now (including somew parser tests)
• Design work with Trevor and Alolita

This week:

• Push template expansion further along, add parser functions and magic variables
• Think about integration with MW (extensions etc), consult with Brion

Blockers:

Gerard

Last week:

This week:

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Howie

Last week:

This week:

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Ian

Last week:

• Got concurrency checker running
• Moved it into its own extension (InterfaceConcurrency)
• Got final version of NPP interview out to Oliver, he's now collecting signatures & scheduling
• Worked on TMH test plan, coordinating labs depolyment
• Fixed/tested a small UW regression in custom licensing code
• Was out and/or semi-incapacitated for a good part of the week

This week:

• More TMH/labs, work with MDale on finishing up/wikifying test plan based on Kaltura's QA materials
• Add a few functions to InterfaceConcurrency, notably listCheckouts()
• Some UW bugs could use fixing
• Maybe turn off Wikipedia and break the Internet for a day

Blockers:

• SOPA and PIPA. :)

Jeremy

Last week:

• Fundraising cleanup

This week:

• FR cleanup

Blockers:

Jeroen

Last week:

• Work on Education Program extension
  • Started implementing correct instructor and ambassador handling
  • Worked on instructor workflow
  • Worked on logging stuff
• Conference call w/ Frank, Erik and other people
• Conference call w/ Ayush and other person
• Updated design with with user group info

This week:

Blockers:

• None

Kaldari

Last week:

• FR cleanup

This week:

• SOPA blackout

Blockers:

Katie

Last week:

• FR cleanup

This week:

• FR cleanup; SOPA Blackout

Blockers:

Niklas

Last week:

• Wrote a lot of documentation (tutorials) for the Translate extension.
• Added a help link to the Translate extension's special pages. (mostly done by Santhosh)
• Learning QUnit

This week:

Blockers:

Roan

Last week:

This week:

• At LCA in Melbourne

Blockers:

RobM

Last week:

• Create core concurrency API wrapper for checking in and checking out resources
• Integrate into Feedback Responses
• Add concurrency notification to response item
• Add Moodbar Feedback to user contrib logs
• Secondary filters, Top Responders, & FBD front end

This week:

• Add concurrency front end pieces to InterfaceConcurrency extension
• Testing concurrency with Feedback Dashboard / Deployment.
• NPP Sprint planning

Blockers:

Santhosh

Last week:

• JS {{GRAMMAR}} support tests.
• {{GRAMMAR}} documentation.
• Narayam documentation.

This week:

Blockers:

Siebrand

Last week:

• I18n code review

This week:

Blockers:

Timo

Last week:

• October Coding Challenge: Judging/rating of submisisons for "Slideshow"
• CodeReview: 1.19 frontend related stuff
• JSTesting / Labs: Get new Special:JavaScriptTest testing stuff going, with hashar

This week:

• Help with SOPA banner where needed (CodeReview and testing)
• 1.19 deployment related on-wiki resourceloader migration helping with code and documentation
• CodeReview: 1.19 front-end related stuff
• October Coding Challenge: Pick a winner and runner up for "Slideshow" category
• JSTesting / Labs: Get new Special:JavaScriptTest testing stuff going, with hashar
• ResourceLoader: If any time left, whatever is on top of the RL2 task list

Blockers:

Trevor

Last week:

• worked with Gabriel on wikidom/parser interfaces

This week:

• LCA

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