Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-06-12
Engineering Community Team meeting, 12 June, 2012
Attending: Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects[edit]
- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
- Feature testing efforts
- Community testing planning
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- Wikimedia blog maintenance
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Wikimania
- Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
- Conferences in general
- Gerrit project owner groups
- Recruitment/encouragement
- GSOC
- UCOSP
- Dev community metrics
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week)[edit]
Chris: today: email to Antoine about beta labs status, review Dave's and Trish's tech evals, 2 phone interviews, AFT deployment, talk about Tauhida later this week: German wikidata about refactoring Selenium tests, more hiring, more labs, HR feedback Guillaume: communications support, engineering project documentation, monthly report, HR feedback RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.20 deployment Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, Developer access, 20% time wrangling, HR feedback Claudia: Dev community metrics
Feature testing efforts[edit]
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)
(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)
Community testing planning[edit]
OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? (Sometime this week would be good)
20% time wrangling[edit]
Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)
1.20 deployment[edit]
Git and Gerrit migration[edit]
Wikimedia blog maintenance[edit]
still on hold :(
Training documentation[edit]
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report[edit]
RobLa's improvements to the gadget were very helpful Guillaume still nagging people, and reviewing report now almost complete; publication hopefully today if the missing pieces are provided
Communications support[edit]
Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.
nothing new to report
Engineering activity documentation[edit]
RobMoen started an assessment tool, Guillaume still needs to take a look
Recruiting/hiring[edit]
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator
got contract help for Wikimania hackathon!
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review
Wikimania[edit]
- deprioritized last week
- Guillaume: on hold last week, hopefully resumed this week
- Sumana & Rob & Guillaume discussed a little in Berlin
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)[edit]
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep
Conferences in general[edit]
Sumana to continue writing OSBridge keynote
Gerrit project owner groups[edit]
Sumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement[edit]
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.
GSoC[edit]
Sumana need to continue
UCOSP[edit]
Sumana starting quick postmortem
- TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email
Dev community metrics[edit]
- Mark & Chris successfully talked to Claudia :) - setting up R<>BugzillaAPI connection - collecting information to Bugzilla Management (setting up the "wall") - analyzing the development of patch submissions over the last years
Misc[edit]
- Sumana in SF June 20-24, then Portland last week of June