Wikimedia Features engineering/Notes/2012-W13
GENERAL
[edit]Engineering Goals: FY2012-2013
[edit]There is still almost a week before the the Engineering Goals are finalized as part of the 2012-2013 budget. So if you feel anything is wrong, feel free to make edits (or contact User:Tychay).
Meeting restructure
[edit]I would like to phase this meeting out (the etherpad that generates this will not be). Consider the and consult with your team:
- Keeping project wiki status up-to-date:
- Have someone from each team update the status on their wiki at least once a week; or
- Designate me to keep status up to date
- Weekly meeting update:
- Have someone on each time give a report to me once a week by Tuesday morning;
- Have someone on the team attend the IRC meeting to give report; or
- Find a time once a week in my schedule where I can attend a meeting (informal, formal, standup, sitdown, with whole team or individually) where part of the agenda is to update me on engineering status for these notes
- Cross-functional and misc admin:
- You can update the weekly meeting etherpad (a new one gets opened when the previous week gets closed out);
- You can send an e-mail to me;
- or You can attend the weekly meeting on IRC and bring up the concerns publicly or privately
- How to disseminate information out or between teams:
- You can rely on me to e-mail you individually;
- You can make individualls to be personally responsible to check the Weekly Status;
- You can disseminate information back informally or via a designated IRC meeting attendee.
Goals of meeting
[edit]- I feel the Weekly Meeting is sucking up too much engineering resources.
- I feel the goals of the weekly meeting are:
- To update me on status (seems like this burden should shift to me, instead of engineers)
- To update project wikis on status (seems like the burden should shift tto the engineers instead of me, but I can assist if this takes up too much time)
- To keep up cross-project awareness within Features (seems like this doesn't work on IRC anyway, and we've moved past the point of a standup or physical meeting, we need to find a solution here).
- Note: Where it says "Have someone" above, I suggest you rotate responsibilities in order to spread the experience/pain as I don't think keeping this up-to-date should be involved.
Visual Editor
[edit]Last week:
- New desk space for Wikia was procured on Monday
This Week:
- The team will be involved in a goal setting meeting on Tuesday
- The team will be meeting with Wikia on synchronization on Wednesday.
Gabriel
[edit]Last week:
- On Vacation
This week:
- On Vacation
Roan
[edit]Last week:
This week:
- Working on an HTML DOM -> linear model converter
Evil plans to be executed after this week:
- Finish my data model refactoring introducing the offset map (maybe this week)
- Merge insert and remove operations into replace
- Refactor/redesign all the data model code
- Do a performance audit of the data model code
Blockers:
- Need code review on change 3735; Trevor?
RobM
[edit]Last week:
- Working at Wikia, planning R&D Toolbar configuration
This week:
- Refactoring current demo with Content Editable surface.
- Structuring UI configuration
- Prototype VE extension config
Trevor
[edit]Last week:
- Under heavy sedation
This week:
- Bug #34885
- VisualEditor planning/goal setting
- Connect some dots between dm, ce and ui
Editor Engagement: Article Creation Wizard (ACW)
[edit]Last Week:
- The Editor Engagement team was moved upstairs on Monday. Benny, Ian, RyanK (when he is unsick), and Fabrice are now working together next to Fundraising Engineering and Community.
Ian
[edit]Last week:
- Got backbone.js running in Mediawiki
- Moved PageTriage's list view into Backbone, built it out
- Updated a bunch of APIs to do what I want
This week:
- Finishing up the list view
- Hopefully getting filtering working on that as well.
Editor Engagement: Page Triage (PT)
[edit]Benny
[edit]Last week:
- Add method to generate PageTriage dashboard data and table for triage status logging
- Add namespace, bot and redirect in listview filtering
- filters by metadata
This week:
- PageTriage filters by metadata
- Generating article snippet in listview
- Add more stats for dashboard data
- Add anonymous user metata data
Blockers:
- None
Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
[edit]Last Week:
- Patch release failed on Monday
This Week:
- Trying to do patch release on Wednesday
Multimedia (TMH)
[edit]Last Week:
- Michael and Jan ran into unresolved issues on the labs setup blocking from testing (this is probably because the labs instance is overloaded).
- Chris McMahon will evaluate for when it will be ready to run the test plans.
This Week:
- Terry will ping Labs (RyanL is on vacation) to try to get some movement from Labs on the hung processes
- Ben is working on getting Swift deployed on Beta (may take longer than a week, not a blocker for Test Plan start, but will be necessary for acceptance)
- Terry is working with RobLa and Chris McMahon to get QA resources lined up when ready.
- Terry is meeting with Google to update them and figure out Jan's status
Education
[edit]Jeroen
[edit]Last week:
- Did the stuff struck through on the roadmap
- git+gerrit
Fundraising
[edit]Last week:
- Working out some kinks in the hiring pipeline
- Continued discussion with GlobalCollect regarding an upswing in chargebacks in February
- Continued work on the pending globalcollect recurring module for civicrm
- Cleanup after an eventually successful upgrade of our production instance of civicrm from 3.4 to 4.1.1.
Jeremy
[edit]Last week:
- working on recurring_globalcollect
This week:
- working on recurring_globalcollect
Katie
[edit]Last week:
- Continue cleaning up occasional issues after the civi upgrade from 3.4 to 4.1.1 on the fundraiser's production instance of civicrm.
- Work with GlobalCollect to address recent fraud issues (or rather, help them understand that we have already addressed the recent fraud issues)
- Continue with the hiring process
- Code review for Jeremy's pending globalcollect recurring module in civicrm
This week:
- Three sessions of Mingle training
- Continue to work with GlobalCollect
- Deal with the mediawiki git migration. In other words: Start using git for the big four fundraising extensions.
- Continue with the hiring process
- Hopefully more code review for Jeremy's pending globalcollect recurring module in civicrm
Blockers:
- Waiting on promised chargeback reports and additional hard data from GlobalCollect so we can bring our recent and deeply involved anti-fraud discussions to a close.
Echo
[edit]Last week:
- Ian and Terry met with the Wikia team for a briefing about their notification design and architecture.
- Provided them with the diagrams from the Product retreat.
This week:
- Notifications will need to be separated out in the Engineering Goals document
- Nothing. This will become a priority in the next fiscal year
Misc. and Platform Support
[edit]Roan (RoanKattouw)
[edit]Last week:
- Git migration ate 3 full days of my time; not doing 20% until April 10th
This week:
- RL2 sprint with Timo on Wednesday
- AFTv5 mini-deployment on Wednesday
Timo
[edit]Last week:
- Continuous integration
- (labs/testswarm): Further working on implementation of the CI plan for JS-testing via SpecialJavaScriptTest in TestSwarm (at wmflabs/testswarm/swarm-specialpage)
- TestSwarm: Working with jQuery to fix bugs in TestSwarm that we need fixed and implement an API (we've had a great start)
- CodeReview
- MediaWiki core: Bug fixes and development of mediawiki-core JS/CSS
This week:
- ResourceLoader:
- Sprint with Roan on Wednesday to make progress on Gadgets 2.0
- Continuous integration
- TestSwarm: Continue working with jQuery to fix bugs and API implementation (I expect to finish it this week)
Blockers:
- Get review permission in Gerrit for mediawiki-core