Engineering Community Team meeting, 8 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?

List of projects

Testing infrastructure/automation
Feature testing efforts
20% time wrangling
1.20 deployment
Git and Gerrit migration
Bugzilla application management
Wikimedia blog maintenance
Training documentation
Monthly report
Communications support
Engineering activity documentation
Recruiting/hiring
Wikimania
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)

Chris: In SF for Labs work. Weekend Testing retrospective, QA hires discussion. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, blog maintenance 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

Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps?

Feature testing efforts

TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

planning OpenHatch event

20% time wrangling

Sumana

1.20 deployment

Feature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.

Git and Gerrit migration

Sumana managing Danielle

Bugzilla application management

Git integration work on hold for next bug wrangler

Wikimedia blog maintenance

Some minor (and overdue) changes to the theme, now deployed to production
going through the initial pains of the wikimedia-flavored git/gerrit process and wrapping my head around it

Training documentation

Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report

on hold until later this month

Communications support

blog team office hours (Wednesday)
discussions about how to encourage engineering staff to blog on the WMF blog and not on 3rd party sites (today)

Engineering activity documentation

starting to plan wikitech cleanup

Recruiting/hiring

Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Wikimania

Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)

Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general

Gerrit project owner groups

Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement

Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC

Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics

Claudia is working with the Bugzilla API because she can't get the full database dump because of the restrictions re the private bugs Mark will set up a separate meeting with Claudia & maybe with Chris since he wants to learn more about the BZ API

TODO: Mark to set up separate Claudia & Chris meeting

Misc

Chris - in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
Guillaume: ~~tentative vacation 16-18 May~~ possible day or two off in May to move, (around a week-end)
Sumana: some offline time Wed & Thurs, some time off late next week
Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012

16 May 2012

Engineering Community Team meeting, 16 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?

List of projects

Testing infrastructure/automation
Feature testing efforts
20% time wrangling
1.20 deployment
Git and Gerrit migration
Bugzilla application management
Wikimedia blog maintenance
Training documentation
Monthly report
Communications support
Engineering activity documentation
Recruiting/hiring
Wikimania
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)

Chris: Labs followup. QA interviews. (ties in with labs). Feature testing efforts 1.20wmf3 ongoing deployments. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, communications support 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

Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps? Chris fleshing this out.

Labs Getting labs usable will take quite some time

Feature testing efforts

TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

AFT testing, bringing Tauhida up to speed. AFT test plan for June 9. improve EE test env?

planning OpenHatch event - June 9th, Sat, 10am

20% time wrangling

Sumana

1.20 deployment

Feature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.

manual testing of critical extensions -- Chris

Git and Gerrit migration

Sumana managing Danielle

Bugzilla application management

Have a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow.

Wikimedia blog maintenance

still on hold this week

Training documentation

Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report

on hold until later this month

Communications support

Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Engineering activity documentation

planning wikitech cleanup; probably going to use a gadget to assess pages, such as the one used by WikiProjects to assess articles

Recruiting/hiring

Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Chris working on QA engineer hiring

TODO: Sumana & Rob - work on job descriptions

Wikimania

deprioritized last week
Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation
Sumana & Rob & Guillaume to take a start at transparency talk next week? (May 21)

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)

Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general

Sumana to start writing OSBridge keynote

Gerrit project owner groups

Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement

Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC

Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

Sumana starting quick postmortem

Dev community metrics

Mark & Chris talked to Claudia - waiting for new questions from her

Misc

Guillaume: 1 day off this week spread throughout the week to visit apartments. Possible day or two off later in May to move (around a week-end)
Sumana: some offline time Thursday - Friday & Monday, in SF
Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.