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Agenda

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  • Quick intro
  • Action items from last time
  • Individual writing to add items to the buckets
  • Walk through new items briefly, for understanding
  • Vote on what to discuss
  • Deeper discussions (2-3?)
  • Pull out action items

Participants

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  • Ryan
  • Danny
  • Frances
  • Niharika

Action items from last time

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  • Help Frances w Turnitin task: Kaldari
    • Forget how much of this happened, but: DONE *\o/*
  • Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
    • Need to do this. Kaldari will update the Gadget code on BetaLabs today.
    • Are we giving people admin accounts for demo-ing this?
  • Kaldari, Niharika, Frances: Look for timeslot(s) for pair programming sessions
    • Not done, how can we prioritize this? NK: Seems harder to prioritize now that we are in the middle of wishlist ticket investigations, but I would really like to see this happen.
    • Yes, we will have to make it a conscious priority and dedicate time for it
  • Danny: schedule bug triage meeting Fri, survey assessment mtg Tues after voting ends
    • Done

What's gone well?

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  • Lego helped with reviewing the last of the Gadgets 2.0 work which was very helpful
  • We got a lot of work done! 25 points closed +1
  • Frances learned a lot about developing in the ApiBase framework, shared this with Niharika, and has made good progress +1
  • Stepping back to think strategically about the Internet Archive project
  • Finished (just about) the turnitin work; that's all great, Earwig/Ben is great to work with, Eran fixed the upstream bug +
  • PageAssessments extension development has gone fairly well without many glitches. Learnt a lot.
    • That has been great to watch.
  • Jan and his team taking ownership of the Pageview stats tool (for now) leaves us free to focus on other stuff.
    • Danny: Niharika's investigation was an excellent base for Jan's team's work
  • Starting to work with Internet Archive
  • Making progress with Max
  • Talking with TCB
    • Frances: all really great to see, a model of good collaboration in a complicated situation
  • Quarterly review +1
  • Frances moving down to 3rd +1

What could have gone better?

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  • Turnitin took forever
  • Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
  • ApiBase is very frustrating (and yes, documentation, argh)
  • CommTech budget is a mess, need to talk to Tony more about how to sort it out
  • Documentation could have been better, as always. :) +100

What else is on your mind?

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  • PageAssessments goal/definition of done
  • Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem
  • General organizational integrity/values/chaos

Deeper discussions

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  • Unfriendly behavior on Phabricator
  • PageAssessments goal/definition of done
  • Deadlinks goal/strategies/definition of done/not wanting to commit to a really hard AI/ML problem

Action items

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  • Kaldari + Danny: Next week - plan when to show people the new GadgetManager on BetaLabs -- once front-end code is done
  • Niharika: add to documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PHP_unit_testing/Writing_unit_tests#Databases
  • Frances: ops and registration for #wikimedia-commtech [DONE]
  • Frances - talk casually to Andre - set up talk with Andre/Quim/James A + team
  • Danny - talk to Johan re: unfriendly behavior
  • Kaldari - Write up plan for PageAssessments on Mediawiki.org - roadmap, MVP requirements