Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W13

Features team meeting

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GENERAL

Engineering Goals: FY2012-2013

There is still almost a week before the the Engineering Goals are finalized as part of the 2012-2013 budget. So if you feel anything is wrong, feel free to make edits (or contact User:Tychay).

Meeting restructure

I would like to phase this meeting out (the etherpad that generates this will not be). Consider the and consult with your team:

• Keeping project wiki status up-to-date:
  • Have someone from each team update the status on their wiki at least once a week; or
  • Designate me to keep status up to date
• Weekly meeting update:
  • Have someone on each time give a report to me once a week by Tuesday morning;
  • Have someone on the team attend the IRC meeting to give report; or
  • Find a time once a week in my schedule where I can attend a meeting (informal, formal, standup, sitdown, with whole team or individually) where part of the agenda is to update me on engineering status for these notes
• Cross-functional and misc admin:
  • You can update the weekly meeting etherpad (a new one gets opened when the previous week gets closed out);
  • You can send an e-mail to me;
  • or You can attend the weekly meeting on IRC and bring up the concerns publicly or privately
• How to disseminate information out or between teams:
  • You can rely on me to e-mail you individually;
  • You can make individualls to be personally responsible to check the Weekly Status;
  • You can disseminate information back informally or via a designated IRC meeting attendee.

Goals of meeting

• I feel the Weekly Meeting is sucking up too much engineering resources.
• I feel the goals of the weekly meeting are:
  • To update me on status (seems like this burden should shift to me, instead of engineers)
  • To update project wikis on status (seems like the burden should shift tto the engineers instead of me, but I can assist if this takes up too much time)
  • To keep up cross-project awareness within Features (seems like this doesn't work on IRC anyway, and we've moved past the point of a standup or physical meeting, we need to find a solution here).
• Note: Where it says "Have someone" above, I suggest you rotate responsibilities in order to spread the experience/pain as I don't think keeping this up-to-date should be involved.

Visual Editor

Last week:

• New desk space for Wikia was procured on Monday

This Week:

• The team will be involved in a goal setting meeting on Tuesday
• The team will be meeting with Wikia on synchronization on Wednesday.

Gabriel

Last week:

• On Vacation

This week:

• On Vacation

Roan

Last week:

• tree synchronization for replace

This week:

• Working on an HTML DOM -> linear model converter

Evil plans to be executed after this week:

• Finish my data model refactoring introducing the offset map (maybe this week)
• Merge insert and remove operations into replace
• Refactor/redesign all the data model code
• Do a performance audit of the data model code

Blockers:

• Need code review on change 3735; Trevor?

RobM

Last week:

• Working at Wikia, planning R&D Toolbar configuration

This week:

• Refactoring current demo with Content Editable surface.
• Structuring UI configuration
• Prototype VE extension config

Trevor

Last week:

• Under heavy sedation

This week:

• Bug #34885
• VisualEditor planning/goal setting
• Connect some dots between dm, ce and ui

Editor Engagement: Article Creation Wizard (ACW)

Last Week:

• The Editor Engagement team was moved upstairs on Monday. Benny, Ian, RyanK (when he is unsick), and Fabrice are now working together next to Fundraising Engineering and Community.

Ian

Last week:

• Got backbone.js running in Mediawiki
• Moved PageTriage's list view into Backbone, built it out
• Updated a bunch of APIs to do what I want

This week:

• Finishing up the list view
• Hopefully getting filtering working on that as well.

Editor Engagement: Page Triage (PT)

Benny

Last week:

• Add method to generate PageTriage dashboard data and table for triage status logging
• Add namespace, bot and redirect in listview filtering
• filters by metadata

This week:

• PageTriage filters by metadata
• Generating article snippet in listview
• Add more stats for dashboard data
• Add anonymous user metata data

Blockers:

• None

Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

Last Week:

• Patch release failed on Monday

This Week:

• Trying to do patch release on Wednesday

Multimedia (TMH)

Last Week:

• Michael and Jan ran into unresolved issues on the labs setup blocking from testing (this is probably because the labs instance is overloaded).
• Chris McMahon will evaluate for when it will be ready to run the test plans.

This Week:

• Terry will ping Labs (RyanL is on vacation) to try to get some movement from Labs on the hung processes
• Ben is working on getting Swift deployed on Beta (may take longer than a week, not a blocker for Test Plan start, but will be necessary for acceptance)
• Terry is working with RobLa and Chris McMahon to get QA resources lined up when ready.
• Terry is meeting with Google to update them and figure out Jan's status

Education

Jeroen

Last week:

• Did the stuff struck through on the roadmap
• git+gerrit

Fundraising

Last week:

• Working out some kinks in the hiring pipeline
• Continued discussion with GlobalCollect regarding an upswing in chargebacks in February
• Continued work on the pending globalcollect recurring module for civicrm
• Cleanup after an eventually successful upgrade of our production instance of civicrm from 3.4 to 4.1.1.

Jeremy

Last week:

• working on recurring_globalcollect

This week:

• working on recurring_globalcollect

Katie

Last week:

• Continue cleaning up occasional issues after the civi upgrade from 3.4 to 4.1.1 on the fundraiser's production instance of civicrm.
• Work with GlobalCollect to address recent fraud issues (or rather, help them understand that we have already addressed the recent fraud issues)
• Continue with the hiring process
• Code review for Jeremy's pending globalcollect recurring module in civicrm

This week:

• Three sessions of Mingle training
• Continue to work with GlobalCollect
• Deal with the mediawiki git migration. In other words: Start using git for the big four fundraising extensions.
• Continue with the hiring process
• Hopefully more code review for Jeremy's pending globalcollect recurring module in civicrm

Blockers:

• Waiting on promised chargeback reports and additional hard data from GlobalCollect so we can bring our recent and deeply involved anti-fraud discussions to a close.

Echo

Last week:

• Ian and Terry met with the Wikia team for a briefing about their notification design and architecture.
• Provided them with the diagrams from the Product retreat.

This week:

• Notifications will need to be separated out in the Engineering Goals document
• Nothing. This will become a priority in the next fiscal year

Misc. and Platform Support

Roan (RoanKattouw)

Last week:

• Git migration ate 3 full days of my time; not doing 20% until April 10th

This week:

• RL2 sprint with Timo on Wednesday
• AFTv5 mini-deployment on Wednesday

Timo

Last week:

• Continuous integration
  • (labs/testswarm): Further working on implementation of the CI plan for JS-testing via SpecialJavaScriptTest in TestSwarm (at wmflabs/testswarm/swarm-specialpage)
  • TestSwarm: Working with jQuery to fix bugs in TestSwarm that we need fixed and implement an API (we've had a great start)
• CodeReview
• MediaWiki core: Bug fixes and development of mediawiki-core JS/CSS

This week:

• ResourceLoader:
  • Sprint with Roan on Wednesday to make progress on Gadgets 2.0
• Continuous integration
  • TestSwarm: Continue working with jQuery to fix bugs and API implementation (I expect to finish it this week)

Blockers:

• Get review permission in Gerrit for mediawiki-core