Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W03
Amir
[edit]Last week:
- Mobile app testing.
- Set up and learn PHP unit.
- Set up and learn QUnit.
- Planning for writing QUnit tests for WebFonts.
This week:
- Writing tests for WebFonts.
Blockers:
Andrew
[edit]Last week:
- at school
This week:
- at school
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Arthur
[edit]Last week:
- on vacation
This week:
- FR cleanup
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Benny
[edit]Last week:
- FeedbackDashboard Top responders leaderboard
- Unanswered filter for feedback dashboard
- Implemented Concurrency API
This week:
- Surface MarkAsHelpful on FeedbackDashboard page
- Email copy update to feedbackdashboard response email
- Deployment & Testing of Moodbar & Concurrency
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Brandon
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This week:
- SOPA blackout design
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Brion
[edit]Last week:
- on mobile
This week:
- on mobile
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Dario
[edit]Last week:
- [AFT] uploaded to toolserver new comment streams/dashboard per article: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft5/articles/?p=Global+warming
- [AFT] reviewed early findings from hand-coding with Aaron and Oliver, results suggest no statistically significant difference across three design based on useful/not useful distinction, will dig into this further this week
- [AFT] caught bug in AFT5 that affected clicktracking data and worked with Reha/Roan on patch
- [AFT] post-mortem of AFT5 backend bugs. Reviewed with Alolita, Fabrice and Howie general plan for testing of backend and data collection for new features
- [clicktracking] started project with Ryan Faulkner to explore automated testing of clickthrough data across features
- [account creation] started documentation on Meta for account creation referral research project
- [open data] 2 interviews with journalists interested in our open data plans and data consultation
This week
- [AFT] wrap up hand-coding work with Aaron/Oliver
- [clicktracking] deploy patch for AFT5 (done)
- [clicktracking] review clicktracking data after patch is released
- [FD] stats on clickthrough data for email notifications
- [FD] review research plan with Aaron
- [other] off to a conference in NC the rest of the week (hosting a session on Wikipedia expert review/engagement)
Blockers:
- I'll be online/reading email during the conference but I don't expect to be able to work during the sessions
Gabriel
[edit]Last week:
- Worked on template expansion and support for it in token transforms, mostly works now (including somew parser tests)
- Design work with Trevor and Alolita
This week:
- Push template expansion further along, add parser functions and magic variables
- Think about integration with MW (extensions etc), consult with Brion
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Gerard
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Howie
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Ian
[edit]Last week:
- Got concurrency checker running
- Moved it into its own extension (InterfaceConcurrency)
- Got final version of NPP interview out to Oliver, he's now collecting signatures & scheduling
- Worked on TMH test plan, coordinating labs depolyment
- Fixed/tested a small UW regression in custom licensing code
- Was out and/or semi-incapacitated for a good part of the week
This week:
- More TMH/labs, work with MDale on finishing up/wikifying test plan based on Kaltura's QA materials
- Add a few functions to InterfaceConcurrency, notably listCheckouts()
- Some UW bugs could use fixing
- Maybe turn off Wikipedia and break the Internet for a day
Blockers:
- SOPA and PIPA. :)
Jeremy
[edit]Last week:
- Fundraising cleanup
This week:
- FR cleanup
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Jeroen
[edit]Last week:
- Work on Education Program extension
- Started implementing correct instructor and ambassador handling
- Worked on instructor workflow
- Worked on logging stuff
- Conference call w/ Frank, Erik and other people
- Conference call w/ Ayush and other person
- Updated design with with user group info
This week:
Blockers:
- None
Kaldari
[edit]Last week:
- FR cleanup
This week:
- SOPA blackout
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Katie
[edit]Last week:
- FR cleanup
This week:
- FR cleanup; SOPA Blackout
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Niklas
[edit]Last week:
- Wrote a lot of documentation (tutorials) for the Translate extension.
- Added a help link to the Translate extension's special pages. (mostly done by Santhosh)
- Learning QUnit
This week:
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Roan
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This week:
- At LCA in Melbourne
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RobM
[edit]Last 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, Top Responders, & FBD front end
This week:
- Add concurrency front end pieces to InterfaceConcurrency extension
- Testing concurrency with Feedback Dashboard / Deployment.
- NPP Sprint planning
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Santhosh
[edit]Last week:
- JS {{GRAMMAR}} support tests.
- {{GRAMMAR}} documentation.
- Narayam documentation.
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Siebrand
[edit]Last week:
- I18n code review
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Timo
[edit]Last week:
- October Coding Challenge: Judging/rating of submisisons for "Slideshow"
- CodeReview: 1.19 frontend related stuff
- JSTesting / Labs: Get new Special:JavaScriptTest testing stuff going, with hashar
This week:
- Help with SOPA banner where needed (CodeReview and testing)
- 1.19 deployment related on-wiki resourceloader migration helping with code and documentation
- CodeReview: 1.19 front-end related stuff
- October Coding Challenge: Pick a winner and runner up for "Slideshow" category
- JSTesting / Labs: Get new Special:JavaScriptTest testing stuff going, with hashar
- ResourceLoader: If any time left, whatever is on top of the RL2 task list
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Trevor
[edit]Last week:
- worked with Gabriel on wikidom/parser interfaces
This week:
- LCA
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