Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-08-28
ECT 2012-08-28 Attending: RobLa, 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
- Tech ambassadors
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Wikimania
- Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania, future)
- Conferences in general
- Gerrit project owner groups
- Recruitment/encouragement
- GSOC
- Dev community metrics
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week)
[edit]Chris: beta labs, New Pages Feed/Curation, hiring, vacation Guillaume: tech ambassadors, communications support, monthly report Sumana: 20% time wrangling, yearly review of Guillaume, Grace Hopper prep, Bangalore prep, volunteer encouragement, GSoC wrapup
Feature testing efforts
[edit]NPF/Curation is top priority right now AFTv5 still being tweaked
Beta labs
[edit]Antoine is on it
Community testing planning
[edit]async testing for NPF to be announced, no event planned Chris will announce it before he goes on vacation
20% time wrangling
[edit]Sumana on this but prepping for discussion at allstaff
1.20 deployment
[edit]remains routine (this is slightly scary, it's TOO quiet) Chris wants to work on this as a medium priority - what coverage do we have with unit tests? and what steps can we take to make deployments more risky
Git and Gerrit migration
[edit]nothing important for us right now
Training documentation
[edit]Chris on docs review team for NPF
Monthly report
[edit]QA is done, review at will Get your statuses in regularly!
Communications support
[edit]Guillaume catching up
Tech ambassadors
[edit]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors almost ready for publication. Need to amend the "Priority activities" section (notably, based on RobLa's input) and finish catching up on related e-mail & mailing list threads before sending out announcements to avoid making any comms faux-pas. Target date: tomorrow
Engineering activity documentation
[edit]Activity pages and status pages are being updated as the August report is being put together. New hub for i18n team: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Internationalization_and_Localization_engineering Please add a status update for your activities for the August report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/August#Platform_Engineering
Recruiting/hiring
[edit]Excellent candidate in place for QA Engineer New excellent candidate for Mobile QA Excellent candidate for Outreach Note about Bug Wrangler
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
[edit]Bangalore planning - November
Conferences in general
[edit]Grace Hopper - need to plan
Gerrit project owner groups
[edit]Sumana managing
Recruitment/encouragement
[edit]Sumana reaching out
GSoC
[edit]Sumana needs to write a wrapup post -- maybe next week
Dev community metrics
[edit](Claudia missing)
HR Feedback?
[edit]Misc
[edit]Sumana: in SF next week Guillaume: Possible vacation after the all staff Chris: vacation Aug 31-Sep 7