Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W07

Features team meeting

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Amir

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Andrew

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Arthur

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Benny

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• Working with Article Creation Workflow
• Bug fix for category tree

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• Contine with Article Creation Workflow implementation
• Deployment and Cross Browser Testing
• Start with New Page Triage

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Brandon

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Brion

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Dario

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• On vacation until Wednesday, returned to the office on Thursday
• Mostly caught up with my backlog from previous weekReviewed status of AFT data collection, filed issue with incorrect tracking of CTA data
• Met with Yvonne Kammerer re: possible areas of interest for eye-tracking/usability research

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• Review metrics/clicktracking specs for Article Creation w/ Benny/Howie/Andrew
• Follow deployment of patch to clicktracking for AFT Edit CTA and run sanity check on data after fix is pushed
• Collect use cases for revtagging
• Recommendation for overhaul of clicktracking system
• Goals/research plan for new contractor (Giovanni)
• Review with AFT team research report from phase 1 and discuss next phase and timeline
• Update on feedback policy w/ Legal
• RCom work

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Gabriel

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• Added support for preprocessor stuff in attribute keys and values
• Continued work on parser functions, tokenizer etc- 238 tests passing currently
• Reorganized Future and related pages, named parser project as Parsoid (suggestion by Amgine); updated documentation in general
• More technical DOM discussion, and a lot of non-technical activity on wikitext

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• Helped Audrey Tang find her way around the code, detailed on-wiki todo
• Bug fixing- trying to survive template-heavy (especially cite) pages
• Start microdata implementation, add more rt data etc

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• A lot of not-that-hard-but-a-lot-of-work items on the todo list

Gerard

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Howie

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Ian

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Jeremy

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• Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
• Gave a UnitTest tutorial to OmniTI for AFT
• Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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• Working on CiviCRM recurring credit card payments.
• Working on LastModified Extension fixme
• Adding features to UnitTest extension
• Reviewing applicants for backend developer in fundraising

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Jeroen

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Kaldari

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Katie

Last week:

• Continued work on auditing tools
• Did code review for Jeremy's work on the globalcollect recurring module for Drupal / CiviCRM
• Reviewed many resumes of potential candidates for the fundraiser dev position

This week:

• Start phone screens and interviews for the new fundraiser dev
• Continued work on the auditing tools in Drupal / CiviCRM
• More code review and deployments to the fundraising Drupal / CiviCRM instance as-needed

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Niklas

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• new translation memory is progressing, enabled on twn, and I've started playing with labs to test in environment closer to wmf cluster, also blogged about it
• Some UI work Special:Translate - comments welcome

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Roan

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RobM

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• VisualEditor:
  • Editable Surface IME prototyping

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• VisualEditor:
  • Various experiments with ES IME modes
  • Create a cross browser IME prototype

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• None

Santhosh

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Siebrand

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Timo

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• (Unavailable this week due to college)

Trevor

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• Met with CE team
• Prototyped concept for floating

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• Implement floating

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• Brainpower shortages