Engineering Community Team/Planning/2014/03
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March 2014
[edit]- RFC-writing/editing/coordination:
- run four RFC meetings Status: Done
- Architecture Summit followup email, part II Status: Not done
- draft new performance guidelines Status: Not done
- draft outline of revised Architecture guidelines Status: Not done
- Assist newcomers in GSoC/OPW Status: Done
- Assemble and publish the engineering report for February. Status: Done
- Follow up on support requests (e.g. blog post reviews). Status: Done
- Get the weekly tech newsletter assembled, published, translated and delivered (with help). Status: Done
- Continue to advertise Tech/News through social media, on-wiki social tools to increase readership. Status: Done
- (Continued from February) Edit and publish the best discovery reports on the Wikimedia tech blog. Status: Done
- (With Andre) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review Status: Done
- (With Andre) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status: Started, continued in April
- Google Summer of Code 2014 and FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 projects almost decided -- Status: Done
- complete FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7
and publish blog post-- Status: Done- co-mentor OPW project mediawiki.org homepage redesign
and push it to get community approval-- Status: Done
- co-mentor OPW project mediawiki.org homepage redesign
- coordinate Facebook Open Academy -- Status: Not done
- co-mentor the OpenBadges project -- Status: Not done
- Google Code-In blog post (moved from January) -- Status: Not done
- complete Community metrics#Key performance indicators (Bitergia) (moved from November) -- Status: Done (Desc / help strings need to be improved)
- list of WMF Engineering employees with travel approval for Wikimania 2014 -- Status: Done
- draft strategy aligning Developer_hub and Data & Developer Hub -- Status: In progress
- First draft of the Index of Key Upstream projects -- Status: Done
Events/FOSDEM/2014 analyzed, and reported via blog post-- Status: Not done- Zürich Hackathon 2014 scholarships decided,
definition of the schedule started-- Status: Done
- (With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review (based on Project management tools/Review/Requirements), take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status: In progress
- (With Guillaume) Have an IRC office hour about Project management tools Status: Done on 2014-03-28
(With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision.Status: Not done -- postponed to April- (With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs based on Google Code-In experience; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week":
- Kill curated list on the wikipage; provide specific Bugzilla queries and "getting started" instructions for each area: Status: Done on 2014-03-07 (diff)
Introduce "Bug of the week" after talking to teams?Status: Not done - postponed to Q2/2014
- Better Bugzilla taxonomy: Discuss using classifications in Bugzilla and identify some initial non-controversial changes. - bugzilla:38990. Status: In progress; first smaller cleanup steps about "Tools" and deprecated stuff are
bugzilla:57738, bugzilla:54063, bugzilla:53986#c15, bugzilla:55351#c4, bugzilla:62386, bugzilla:62384; Proposal to use Bugzilla classifications on 2014-03-10 - Bugzilla setup / code:
Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress: (porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4) -- might get postponed to Q2/2014- Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do
Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins- bugzilla:37105. Status: Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. Porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4 -- postponed to Q2/2014