Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-07-16
July 16th
[edit]Followup from quarterly review
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review
- felt a little rushed - think about 75 or 90 minutes in future
- Greg maybe should be in more quarterly reviews generally
- Try to get Alolita
- less so Antoine
Communications of feature teams out to community - ones that don't have liaisons may not do as much Action item: Ken and Andre to continue conversation, have a meeting/chat in August -- Andre to push on this re BZ/rt Action item: Sumana to think about ECT communications for activities that don't have dedicated liaisons & talk with eng directors about, e.g., Analytics Action item: Sumana to consolidate & prioritize upstreams lists
Wikimania prep
[edit]https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Transparency_and_collaboration_in_Wikimedia_engineering Andre, Quim, & Sumana
"internal" (Wikimedia)
- Day-to-day: Andre/Quim
- Coordination of Wikitech-ambassadors, Weekly tech news, Signpost and other initiatives encouraging information and collaboration beteen Wikimedia tech contributors and editors. - Quim
- Bug reporting - Andre
- Long-term:
- Helping you shape developers' priorities, with bug triage and product development opportunities. - Sumana
- Monthly engineering report - Sumana
"external" (other organizations) (Sumana)
- Work on news and activities with an impact in mainstream tech media, thus raising the awareness among potential contributors at large.
- Collaboration with established organizations & upstreams: many active groups out there have an interest in making technical contributions to Wikipedia.
Andre, Quim, & Sumana to basically cover these points, divide them up, and one of us do an intro. will fill 15 minutes + 10 min Q&A
Upcoming changes/dates
[edit]- Guillaume off on Thursday. possibly a couple days off in August/September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
- Andre:
- July Wed31-August Mon05: GNOME GUADEC (Brno/CZ)
- August Wed07-August Mon12: Wikimania (Hongkong/PRC)
- October Fri04-Sun06: Mozilla Summit 2013
- Sumana
- July 16th: all-day meeting
- Quim flying to Germany this weekend, will work from there until Wikimania, except
- Quim on holidays July 24-31. Then flying to Hong Kong on Aug 2.
- Željko:
- July: some unavailability
- September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
- September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
- November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
- Chris:
- Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"
- possible longish vacation in Octobe
Other conference deadlines:
- LCA : July 20th http://linux.conf.au/media/news/1
- FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion
VisualEditor
[edit]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000316.html - updated schedule
- Guillaume working on VE through most of August.
Misc updates
[edit]https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/23/pywikipediabot-moving-to-git-on-july-26/
- Andre has discussed stuff with them on 1 talk page - move to Git first, then move bug trackers into BZ
- Action item: Sumana to consolidate & prioritize lists of upstreams
Rachel?
- figuring out how to change your email address in Gerrit
- changed it the wrong way in Gerrit, then a week later, couldn't log back in
- LDAP problem
Who is backup?
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers
- on a larger page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
- global search http://hexm.de/mw-search
- or use the dropdown in https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=&button=&title=Special%3ASearch to choose "Wikimedia Technical CSE"
QA documentation improvement:
- open question on the QA list from Rachel - how to proceed? Thanks for her bug reports! :)
- Chris will update obsolete docs especially on browser test automation - consolidating - by August 2nd
Action item: Rachel to file bug asking to make it impossible to change email address wrong way with dev account Misc: Chris's HotCat test https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74075/4/features/hotcat.feature
Andre updates
[edit]Ken
- Andre sent Ken a note summarizing positions re Ops bug workflow
Jared & Howie
- Andre is making the workflow work for them
- Andre, a UX example from Mobile: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51204
BZ upstream GUADEC absence
- will have a delegate
Conferences & misc scheduling
[edit]Wikimania
[edit]Rachel- vacation Aug 5-9
- Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in August/September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
- Andre:
- July Wed31-August Mon05: GNOME GUADEC (Brno/CZ)
- August Wed07-August Mon12: Wikimania (Hongkong/PRC)
- October Fri04-Sun06: Mozilla Summit 2013
- Sumana
- Quim in Germany until Wikimania, except
- Quim on holidays July 24-31. Then flying to Hong Kong on Aug 2.
- Željko:
- vacation late July - early August
- August 16, eurucamp/JRubyConf EU Workshop, Berlin, Germany
- September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
- September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
- November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
- Chris:
- Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"
- possible days off in October
Other conference deadlines:
- FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion