Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-06-12
Engineering Community Team meeting, 12 June, 2012
Attending: Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects
[edit]- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
- Feature testing efforts
- Community testing planning
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- 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
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week)
[edit]Chris: today: email to Antoine about beta labs status, review Dave's and Trish's tech evals, 2 phone interviews, AFT deployment, talk about Tauhida later this week: German wikidata about refactoring Selenium tests, more hiring, more labs, HR feedback Guillaume: communications support, engineering project documentation, monthly report, HR feedback 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, HR feedback Claudia: Dev community metrics
Feature testing efforts
[edit]TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)
Community testing planning
[edit]OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? (Sometime this week would be good)
20% time wrangling
[edit]Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)
1.20 deployment
[edit]Git and Gerrit migration
[edit]Wikimedia blog maintenance
[edit]still on hold :(
Training documentation
[edit]Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report
[edit]RobLa's improvements to the gadget were very helpful Guillaume still nagging people, and reviewing report now almost complete; publication hopefully today if the missing pieces are provided
Communications support
[edit]Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.
nothing new to report
Engineering activity documentation
[edit]RobMoen started an assessment tool, Guillaume still needs to take a look
Recruiting/hiring
[edit]Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator
got contract help for Wikimania hackathon!
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review
Wikimania
[edit]- deprioritized last week
- Guillaume: on hold last week, hopefully resumed this week
- Sumana & Rob & Guillaume discussed a little in Berlin
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
[edit]Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep
Conferences in general
[edit]Sumana to continue writing OSBridge keynote
Gerrit project owner groups
[edit]Sumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
[edit]Sumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.
GSoC
[edit]Sumana need to continue
UCOSP
[edit]Sumana starting quick postmortem
- TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email
Dev community metrics
[edit]- Mark & Chris successfully talked to Claudia :) - setting up R<>BugzillaAPI connection - collecting information to Bugzilla Management (setting up the "wall") - analyzing the development of patch submissions over the last years
Misc
[edit]- Sumana in SF June 20-24, then Portland last week of June