Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-05-01
Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects
[edit]- Testing infrastructure/automation
- Feature testing efforts
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.19 tarball
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- Bugzilla application management
- Wikimedia blog maintenance
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
- Conferences in general
- Gerrit project owner groups
- Recruitment/encouragement
- GSOC
- UCOSP
- Dev community metrics
Who's doing what (this week)
[edit]Chris: Highest priority: Feature Test Charters for Weekend Testing May 5, Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts, 1.20 testing, SF visit for test env. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: monthly report RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.20 deployment Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, Developer access, 20% time wrangling Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity
Testing infrastructure/automation
[edit]Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.
Blog post?
Blog post forthcoming from SF next week perhaps?
Feature testing efforts
[edit]TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
Tauhida?
Labs problems with TMH
would like to do a testing project with OpenHatch for AFT, replied to email -early June, AFT testing, OH Chris in charge of this
20% time wrangling
[edit]Sumana
1.19 tarball
[edit](nothing from us this week)
1.20 deployment
[edit]Have preliminary Release Notes, Feature Test Charters, to be finalized today, hopefully after fixing Special:Version
Git and Gerrit migration
[edit]- Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info
Bugzilla application management
[edit]Git integration?
Wikimedia blog maintenance
[edit]on hold this week
Training documentation
[edit]Contractor to work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report
[edit]Guillaume sprinting on this this week
Communications support
[edit]on hold this week
Engineering activity documentation
[edit]pages updated while putting together the monthly report
Recruiting/hiring
[edit]Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials
QA Engineer position should go public RSN
Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
[edit]Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships
Conferences in general
[edit]Gerrit project owner groups
[edit]Sumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
[edit]Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people
GSoC
[edit]Mentors mentoring community bonding period
UCOSP
[edit]- TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem
Dev community metrics
[edit]- working on checking the validity of the bug database (created from data provided by Mark) - still differences in result set from database and the bugzilla api, a lot of preparation stuff such as setting up postgresConnection in R - papers collected and partially reviewed but not documented yet - to summarize: did a lot of useful but not very successful (showable) stuff - hope there will be better/more news next week
Misc
[edit]- Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
- Guillaume: tentative vacation 16-18 May
- Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.