Engineering Community Team/Planning/2014/Q2
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AprilâJune 2014
[edit]- Provide ongoing communications support (blog post reviews, activity pages, etc.). Status: ââ Done
- Assemble and publish monthly reports. Status: ââ Done
- Ensure the weekly publication of Tech/News. Status: ââ Done
- (With Andre) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status: ââ Done
- Improve the information architecture of Wikimedia Engineering-related activities on mediawiki.org. Status: ââ Done
- Improve the activity pages system and templates using Lua to make them less fragile and transclusion more flexible. Status: ââ Done
- Improve Wikimedia Engineering and team hubs to be more useful and provide more up-to-date information automatically. Status: ââ Done
- (With Guillaume) Do what's needed to drive Project_management_tools/Review. Status: ââ Done
- (With Quim) Expose an easy "bug of the week" with dev team support (after Annoying little bugs is in shape) Status: ââ In progress, Andre preparing
- Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status: ââ Done on 20140428 and 20140624, planning for 201407 started
Some more Bugzilla taxonomy cleanup.- bugzilla:38990 Status: ââ On hold -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor PhabricatorInvestigate closing components of extensions archived in the code repository.- bugzilla:47540 Status: ââ On hold, postponingInvestigate splitting "enhancement" out of Bugzilla's "severity" dropdown and make it separate.- bugzilla:58096 Status: ââ On hold, low priority & only if we stick with Bugzilla -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor Phabricator
- Our list of upstream projects is complete, with contacts appointed for each project.
- Google Summer of Code, FOSS Outreach Program for Women, and Facebook Open Academy focus in quality, getting code merged, and potential long term contributors.
- Our community metrics dashboard is used to attract contributions to the most neglected areas.
- Push mediawiki.org homepage redesign to get community approval-- Status: ââ Not done
- Draft strategy aligning Developer_hub and Data & Developer Hub -- Status: ââ Not done
- ZĂźrich Hackathon 2014 successful (definition of success tbd) -- Status: ââ In progress
- Restart Tech Talks and Meetups -- Status: ââ In progress
- Document process for non-WMF contributors requesting shell access -- Status: ââ Not done
- Ongoing plans for hackathons in India and the USA.
- Reboot Annoying little bugs.
- Wrap up Product_development
- The Architecture process has its own inertia, backed by revamped documentation and a Requests for comment queue clean.
- Performance guidelines
- Canonical document
- Approval and discussion at Zurich hackathon
- Poster
- Training syllabus
- Canonical document
- Security guidelines
- Canonical document
- Poster
- Training syllabus
- Architecture guidelines
- Canonical document
- Poster
- Training syllabus
- Weekly RfC review meetings
- Performance guidelines
- TitleValue a done deal by Zurich