Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-07-03
Engineering Community Team meeting, 3 July, 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
- 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: -- AFT deploy, hiring are top priorities. Will reviews half-dozen new applications for QA Engineer
Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania prep 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics
- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
-- Conversation is ongoing, but policy (per Rob) of "if it has a deployment scheduled, get it on beta labs" is in place and everyone is aware of it.
Feature testing efforts
[edit]-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 1% of enwiki -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now
Community testing planning
[edit]-- Nothing solid right now, but discussed an Extensions bug triage project with Weekend Testers, they're interested -- review Openhatch test event
OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? Chris McMahon will schedule it.
Extensions testing w/WT
Parveen? none
20% time wrangling
[edit]Sumana
1.20 deployment
[edit]-- is becoming routine
Git and Gerrit migration
[edit]Training documentation
[edit]somewhat updated more in early July
Monthly report
[edit]Get your statuses in by Thursday!
Communications support
[edit]Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.
Engineering activity documentation
[edit]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. Tech and panel interviews in progress for four candidates.
Wikimania
[edit]Guillaume: presentation prep, currently consolidating content around https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_history before using it to build the presentation Sumana: need to prep presentation, need to write to Wikimania participants to suggest wikitech-ambassadors meetup
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
[edit]Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep, need to do SF & Berlin followup,
Conferences in general
[edit]Sumana to write blog post about OSB
SMWCon - Chris to consider
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]Tomorrow is US holiday