Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-07-17
Engineering Community Team meeting, 17 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, future)
- 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 productization, deployment, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements, automation Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania follow-up 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
Feature testing efforts
[edit]-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 10% of enwiki + IE7 support -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now -- AFTv5 live on labs beta, need to make it usable now, have a use case in hand
Community testing planning
[edit]no plan currently Visual Editor? Talk to James Forrester
20% time wrangling
[edit]Sumana
1.20 deployment
[edit]-- is becoming routine
Git and Gerrit migration
[edit]Training documentation
[edit]New stuff from OpenHatch
- Sumana: need to write checklists for Rob to follow
Monthly report
[edit]Get your statuses in regularly!
Communications support
[edit]Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.
Engineering activity documentation
[edit]Nothing to report
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 finished for four candidates.
Wikimania
[edit]Followup?
Guillaume:
- clearing e-mail/watchlist backlog
- follow up on contacts
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
[edit]Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon followup, need to do SF & Berlin followup,
Conferences in general
[edit]Sumana to write blog post about OSB
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]Did postmortem
- Sumana: to email wikitech-l and other groups about future projects
Dev community metrics
[edit]Misc
[edit]Sumana's upcoming vacation Guillaume - starting in 2-3 days, more asynchronous than usual till 6 Aug