Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W02

Features team meeting

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Amir

Last week:

• Translation workflow states that are themselves translatable
• tryed to make edit summaries behave more nicely in RTL and failed PHP unit tests for the first time ;)
• code review for Niklas' new feature - review recent translations
• started doing some tests for the Android app, mostly for RTL and input methods

This week:

• Planned: writing a LOT of QUnit and PHPunit tests for WebFonts.

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Andrew

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Benny

Last week:

• Deployed Changes for Moodbar and MarkAsHelpful

 1. Added page level display rule to MarkAsHelpful
 2. added clicktracking to response email

This week:

• Concurrency API
• Top responders leader board
• unanswered filter

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Brandon

Week:

• Product Design Guild meeting
  • Got some ideas for a decent "language" icon from it.
  • No resumes; possibly a solid volunteer
• Lots of work on Notifications System
• Working on "Athena v 0.5" or thereabouts (mobile platform stuff)
• Re-reading all our NPP research in anticipation of cranking back up
• Lots of work on various outreach programs, including our jobs/career pages
• Hiring/interviews

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Dario

Last week:

• [account creation] preliminary research into how to track internal referrals for accounts created
• [AFT] shared summary of preliminary quant results
• [AFT] reviewed issues with data collected since launch and coordinated with OmniTI to release patch to fix bug in option 3 that prevented collection of comments with no rating
• [AFT] modified toolserver dashboards to control for this bug
• [AFT] reviewed analysis plans with other team members for measuring potential cannibalization of edits
• [AFT] worked on clicktracking specs to measure edit conversions with Reha
• [trending topics] worked on specs for US elections case study with Diederik, Nimish and external research collaborators

This week:

• [account creation] start documentation of research questions/metrics on Meta
• [moodbar] document metrics/analysis plan for feedback response
• [AFT] continue quant analysis / monitor data collected after release of new placement
• [AFT] start work to adapt fundraiser code for automated testing of conversions with R Faulkner
• [AFT] participate in organization of second round of hand coding
• [trending topics] meet with dataviz collaborator to discuss data to be collected

• Work with ops on filters to extract registration referrals
• Discuss with Diederik analytics plans for US presidential elections as possible testbed

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• None

Gabriel

Last week:

• Refactored token stream transforms for template expansion support, separated async/sync transforms in subclasses and made them separate parser stages (needed for template expansion)
• Made all parser stages event emitters and -consumers and refactored ParserPipeline. Needs to be pushed to parserTests and parse.js.
• Implemented a rough template expansion outline, working on making that functional now
• Travelled to SF

This week:

• Make template expansion work
• Plan next steps for integration with editor, round-tripping, reconciliation and misc issues with Trevor

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Gerard

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Ian

Last week:

• Finished up NPP interview release
• Got ConcurrencyCheck code running, all tests pass
• Added caching support to ConcurrencyCheck
• Interview coding for editor motivations study
• Verified fix for UW bug for deploy

This week:

• Coordinating NPP interviews
• Finishing ConcurrencyCheck and getting it reviewed
• Adding listCheckouts() method
• Finishing interview coding for Thursday meeting

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Jeremy

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Jeroen

Last week:

• Work on Education Program extension
  • Not much though due to being sick

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• Finish up student and instructor workflow

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Kaldari

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Katie

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Niklas

Last week:

• Code review, like always
• Polishing Translate for deployment
• Big i18n deployment: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2012-January/000376.html - few issues which already fixed
• Using translatewiki.net to test what code still uses (to-be) deprecated JavaScript features and fixing reporting those issues. Also have a logging of JavaScript errors in translatewiki.net, thanks to Timo.

This week:

• Writing Translate tutorials
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_example
• Unit testing (learning and writing tests) (actually the whole team is going to learn and work on these, and will probably get in touch to ask questions).
• Code review - I want 1.19 out!

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Roan

Last week:

• AFTv5
  • Fixed clicktracking data format issue
  • Prevented logrotate from destroying clicktracking data
  • Deployed a few fixes
  • Reviewed up to trunk, deployment tomorrow
• MoodBar / MarkAsHelpful
  • Reviewed up to trunk, deployment tomorrow
• ResourceLoader
  • Reassessed state of RL2 project, updated wiki page
  • Fixed some client-side loader bugs with Timo
  • Implemented experimental support for async script loading from the <head>, disabled for now. Wanna try this on the cluster, then hopefully ship 1.19 with this as the default
  • Fixed the broken PLURAL-in-JS integration in trunk

This week:

• As much 1.19 CR as I can squeeze in. Like Niklas, I want 1.19 out
• Traveling to Australia for LCA (I leave early on Thursday)

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• No power on the plane that I'll be on on Thursday, Friday and Saturday :(

RobM

Last week:

• Deployed Changes for Moodbar and MarkAsHelpful

This week:

• Create core concurrency API wrapper for checking in and checking out resources
• Integrate into Feedback Responses
• Add concurrency notification to response item
• Add Moodbar Feedback to user contrib logs
• Secondary filters UI
• Top Responders styling & Feedback Dashboard layout enhancements

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Santhosh

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Siebrand

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Timo

Last week:

• Continuous integration:
  • Continue work on the MediaWiki-TestSwarm fetcher classes. Making it ready to run jobs via Special:JavaScriptTest, which was merged into trunk from the JSTesting branch last week
• MediaWiki Core JS
• *Code review
  • Debug toolbar improvements
  • Various QA/Linting
• ResourceLoader:
  • Did research with Roan on the new asynchronous loading logic and applied it to trunk
  • Fixed various gadgets and extensions that stopped working properly because they depended on undocumented behavior
  • Review of mw.loader and fixing several bugs that potentially caused load failures and/or race conditions

This week:

• Coding challenge:
  • Finish review of 2 more entries and pick winner
• ResourceLoader:
  • Fix minor layout bugs
  • Implement proper error/success handling through user feedback in the gadget editor for saving/deleting gadgets (currently works fine but simply reloads returns to form on failure and reloads on success showing the created gadget)
• Continuous integration:
  • Configure the new JSTesting environment in MediaWiki on WMF Labs and if all fine deploy to integration.mediawiki.org

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Trevor

Last week:

• Vacation

This week:

• Audit VisualEditor code, assess next steps
• Prepare for LCA
• Work with Gabriel on Parser

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