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[edit] 7 Feb 2012

Attending: Guillaume, Mark, Sumana, RobLa, Claudia, Chris McMahon

[edit] List of projects

  • Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communication support
  • Engineering project documentation
  • Code review meistering
    • 1.19 code review support
  • 1.19 deployment & release support
    • Test deployment
  • Bug Triage
  • 1.18 deployment & release support
    • Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
  • Bugzilla application management
  • Recruiting/hiring
  • Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, GLAMCamp)
    • Conferences in general
  • Commit Access
  • Recruitment/encouragement
    • GSOC
  • UCOSP
  • Dev community metrics

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[edit] Who's doing what

  • Sumana: Recruitment/encouragement, hackathon/event prep and followup, commit access, UCOSP, conferences in general,

communication support (git), GSoC

  • Guillaume: monthly report, engineering project documentation, communications support, blog maintenance, incl. 1.19 deployment

support/communication

  • Mark H - Bugzilla application management, Bug Triage, code review meistering
  • Chris M. - QA rampup! 1.19 release and deployment support
  • Rob - Hiring, code review meistering, 1.19 deployment support

[edit] Wikimedia blog maintenance

Guillaume:

  • not much happened last week; Discussed blog analytics with Matthew; will hopefully start working on blog maintenance again later

this week, otherwise next week

[edit] Training documentation

There’s new raw material from the SF hackathon. Work on hold last week due to monthly report. Reassessment after Pune hackathon meeting …

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Workshop

(Sumana to discuss, in meeting, what training docs we need. Lua, ResourceLoader2, and new Gadgets...)

Definitely needed by late May

In future, get help from volunteers to process raw materials -- Lee Worden

  • Sumana to do this! -- next week?

[edit] Monthly report

Guillaume:

  • did a lot of nagging (sigh) and a lot of discussing processes with engineering management & product team. A lot of the time that

was freed up the week before by the crowdsourcing of the report was just spent later because some people didn’t do their part.

2012/January publication tomorrow

[edit] Communication support

Guillaume:

  • wrote & published Open Advice blog post
  • inherited 1.19 deployment comms from Sumana; started catching up on sumanaspam today, will consolidate on the wiki page later

today. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Roadmap#Communications may include blog post on blog.wikimedia.org

    • tewiki said they will want to centralize the gadgets.
  • considering a CentralNotice campaign to reach out to logged-in users of small wikis & encourage them to upgrade gadgets to be

compatible with ResourceLoader

  • Sumana: still no SF hackathon blog post. Can Guillaume help? Sumana has written it! (is writing it)

Sumana redid git docs and roadmap last week. Sumana this week chasing Chad re blog post.

[edit] Engineering project documentation

Guillaume:

  • usual perennial maintenance of the project pages
  • team hubs now use a unique template to pull information from project pages, whether they exist or not (this will simplify

maintenance)

[edit] Test deployment

Mark has handed off most of this work to Sam Reed.

More problem reports that need to be addressed. Mark will do this today. http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/ Problem_reports Mark to work with Sam to see that any configuration issues will be fixed.

[edit] Code review meistering & 1.19 code review support

RobLa has set up daily 15-min meetings with people who have 20% time that day or the next day, to coordinate CR efforts.

MWCore meeting - reduced the # of FIXMEs yesterday by perhaps ½ ! And there is nothing insurmountable in the current FIXME list.

Still on track to first deployment to test2 on 13 Feb

[edit] 1.19 deployment/release work (testing etc.)

Chris found 4 diff smoke tests, acceptance tests, etc. coalesced those into 1 set of checks for 1.19 features. Simple statements. Chris will learn a lot by doing them.

Chris McMahon -- Last week, his focus: figuring out how he can contribute on 1.19

[edit] Bug Triage

Mark: None planned, need to focus on getting the 1.19 blockers assigned and fixed.

Mark aims to catch DKinzler on IRC

RobLa: let’s have a 1.19 blocker triage. Mark: OK.

  • TODO - Mark to run that triage.

Sumana - to check - Blocker bugs mostly have the JS keyword. * Sumana to keep an eye out for volunteers who can help with this

[edit] 1.18 deployment & release support

SWIFT - deployed. Any issues? there was a minor site outage, people couldn’t edit. Turned out to be a secondary issue, not SWIFT itself. 2nd deployment Monday went well - deployed to only 1 of 256 shards. Today bigger day, 20% of the shards. Idea: 100% by Thursday.

  • TODO Mark is going to check with commons admins today, nothing immediately obvious on Village Pump

[edit] Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)

Mark regularly looking at Highest priority bugs and work with Rob to assign them

[edit] Bugzilla application management

“Mark to talk to CT Woo today” from last week -- CT said he would work with someone in Ops to get public data into wmflabs.org

-- public Bugzilla data ….

Aim: make it possible to have a public instance, a database that people can access on labs or toolserver, to let people access bz data via database instead of just the web. More flexiblity. raw database queries... need to sanitize bz data to keep private stuff private.

This is not a high priority.

[edit] Recruiting/hiring

(private)

Still recruiting for security eng & backend eng & others https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings

[edit] Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, GLAMCamp)

Sumana needs to follow up on Jan. event. SO MUCH FOLLOWUP.

Category:Wikimedia_Hackathon_San_Francisco_2012

  • Sumana to coordinate travel to WMF events for Neil, Romy, & Judy
  • Sumana to cleanup, post somewhere SF hackathon postmortem
  • helping plan WMDE hackathon. May 18-20 or Jun 1-3, starting with structured data. Theme of event: more inreach to chapters &

other developers.

[edit] Conferences in general

  • Sumana needs to reach out to community to find out what to sponsor

[edit] Commit Access

basically rolling along

[edit] Volunteer recruitment & encouragement

same old

A member of French chapter is coordinating some collaboration with students working on MediaWiki projects, incl finishing the plugin for DigiKam to upload to Commons! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jean-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric/digiKam

Resource Loader workshop on Feb 23 - tentative

Mark question: there’s an IRC channel. #wikimedia-userscripts …..

Where is the community of Gadgets authors? Guillaume and Greg Varnum are working on this with Sumana.

Is this even possible? they are so localised! But wikis do copy gadgets from each other, so there is reason for community

[edit] GSoC

started recruiting, now have flyers and better GSoC page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2012

[edit] UCOSP

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UCOSP_Spring_2012

Seems to be humming along

[edit] Dev community metrics

on hold basically; (dashboard)

  • Sumana to sprint on this next week for 30 min with Claudia

[edit] March TL;DR meeting in SF

We should plan this ahead of time and come up with a specific set of items we want to discuss and goals we want to accomplish.

First ideas: coordinate re roadmap, Wikimania, training documentation, work in coming months, etc.

Travel is mostly arranged.

  • Sumana to coordinate with RobLa next week

[edit] Misc.

Wikimania submissions:

etc.). This talk doesn’t mean you shouldn’t submit your own talk as well.

Tell people to apply for scholarships!

[edit] 14 Feb 2012

TLDR meeting, 14 Feb 2012

Attending: Guillaume, Mark, Sumana, RobLa, Chris McMahon

[edit] List of projects

  • 1.19 stuff: Code review meistering
  • 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
  • SWIFT deployment support
  • Bug Triage
    • Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
  • Bugzilla application management
  • Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communications support
  • Engineering project documentation
  • Recruiting/hiring
  • Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin)
    • Conferences in general
  • Commit Access
  • Recruitment/encouragement
    • GSOC
    • UCOSP
  • Dev community metrics

[edit] Who's doing what (this week)

Chris: 1.19 deployment testing

Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage

Guillaume: communications support, engineering project documentation, 1.19 communications

RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment

Sumana: Commit access, volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git),

[edit] 1.19 stuff: Code review meistering

yes, some still needs to happen. Rev report is still useful https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ MediaWiki_roadmap/1.19/Revision_report We’re not too worried about what is in here. This will happen in daily 20% meetings. Rob & Mark.

[edit] 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support

Last night: deployed to test2.

Still errors code 500. Not sure it’s useful to tell people to test it yet.

Chris: 1.19 test planning, starting work on test2. (Anything in need of investigation please add to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Feature_Test_Charters)

Messages*.php investigating discrepancies between 1.18 and 1.19, asking questions. (discovered misuse of $1, $2 etc. variables, arrays of different values and different lengths, but don’t know consequences of these) (i18n). Chris should talk to Siebrand and Niklas, the translation team, Mark suggests. RobLa notes that Sam Reed or nearly any of the developers, any of the frequent committers, would be able to give details on that.

Prioritywise, now that we have test2 up, the test2 stuff is probably more urgent right now. But this issue will affect the 1.19 deployment. Example: there is a namespace issue...

RobLa & Chris to talk more in IRC.

Chris adds that his first attempt to create a user on test2 this morning failed

Swift issues (below) delay deployment to next stage, since we need to fix them AND do debugging on test 2 issues.

Mark: ● Test2 testing ○ Some really awful CSS and blank pages seen already this AM ● Beginning watching village pumps and stuff on deployed wikis. ● Getting new 1.19 specific bugs (hopefully none) fixed.

Guillaume

  • Doing all sorts of communications planning at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Communications now mostly done; updating translations as they come in. Real-time stuff will be handled by Rob & Tilman (Did this communication have any effect on getting more testing? We don’t know.)

[edit] SWIFT deployment support

Caused test2 issues; PediaPress/PDF creator stuff caused problems. Image corruption problem in Swift discovered by the PDF generation people. But they didn’t tell us. Invalidated our cache, slammed our servers. Burden fell on Ben & Aaron. We may end up reverting Swift!

(Collections was disabled for about 4 hours on Monday.)

[edit] Bug Triage

None planned, focused on 1.19 rollout. But we’ll get a bunch of test2 reports to triage early this week, ASAP (hopefully), and we’ll get deployment-related comments & reports to triage. ○ We haven’t postponed the first deployment window yet. So RobLa wants to plan to do this very soon thereafter.

●

Mark to plan this.

○

[edit] Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)

Continuing to do this in 20% standups which seem really successful

●

[edit] Bugzilla application management

Ask Rusty Burchfield (gicode) to get something going with git integration?

●

[edit] Wikimedia blog maintenance

On hold last week and this week

[edit] Training documentation

On hold last week and this week

Sumana created a Tutorials category on mw.o bawolff interested in making a new tutorial

no events coming up in the coming months

[edit] Monthly report

The January report is (finally) out: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/January

Please continue to add status updates to your project regularly to make the February report less painful: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering

[edit] Communications support

Guillaume

  • blog posts writing & review (Open Advice, Ben’s swift post, 1.19 announcement)
  • drafting the SOPA tech retrospective for Erik http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/

SOPARetrospective

[edit] Engineering project documentation

Guillaume:

Sumana:

[edit] Recruiting/hiring

(private)

[edit] Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin)

Sumana

  • Follow-up on Pune event (7-19 promising volunteers)
  • Follow-up for San Francisco event (including posting SF hackathon postmortem)
  • Possible Brazil event
  • Planning for Wikidata / structured data part of Berlin event

[edit] = Conferences in general

  • this week: sumana reaching out to people who are not part of the 1.19 team, to encourage

them to submit proposals, etc. Wikimania, Opensourcebridge, and Grace Hopper conference

[edit] Commit Access

humming along

[edit] Recruitment/encouragement

humming along

[edit] GSOC

Sumana responding on mailing lists, etc.

[edit] UCOSP

humming along

[edit] Dev community metrics

Sumana will aim to work with Claudia this week to show her the existing spreadsheet & wishlist - ½ hour

[edit] Misc

Communicating with Gadgets creators: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Thread:Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Reference_tooltips/reply_(10) but what communication fora do they already use? We could update Timo’s page re using RL and create a link to a place where they can talk to each other. Create a space on mediawiki.org, use a script to ID the most prolific editors of gadgets on various wikis, send them a notification (e-mail or gadget talk page) Create a Gadget Portal on MediaWiki, Gadget Village Pumps

  • Sumana to draw up TL;DR team plan for March team visit
  • Guillaume in SF from March 1st to March 14th. On vacation from March 15th until March 23rd

[edit] 21 Feb

TLDR meeting, 21 Feb 2012

Attending: Guillaume, Mark, Sumana, Chris McMahon

[edit] List of projects

  • 1.19 stuff: Code review meistering
  • 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
  • SWIFT deployment support
  • Bug Triage
    • Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
  • Bugzilla application management
  • Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communications support
  • Engineering project documentation
  • Recruiting/hiring
  • Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin)
    • Conferences in general
  • Commit Access
  • Recruitment/encouragement
    • GSOC
    • UCOSP
  • Dev community metrics

[edit] Who's doing what (this week)

Chris: 1.19 deployment testing Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage Guillaume: communications support, monthly report, blog maintenance RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment Sumana: Commit access, volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git)

[edit] 1.19 stuff: Code review meistering

http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/119triage Mark coordinating with RobLa this week.

[edit] 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Feature_Test_Charters Charters have been useful.

Last week: Chris: Messages*.php discrepancies -- Chris came to a conclusion. Now: Chris learning his way around what a release looks like Mark: ● Getting new 1.19 specific bugs (http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/119triage) fixed.

Guillaume: ongoing maintenance & updating of the translations of the maintenance banners, landing pages, etc.

Last week: Communicating with Gadgets creators: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Thread:Talk:MediaWiki_1.19/Reference_tooltips/reply_(10) but what communication fora do they already use? We could update Timo’s page re using RL and create a link to a place where they can talk to each other. Create a space on mediawiki.org, use a script to ID the most prolific editors of gadgets on various wikis, send them a notification (e-mail or gadget talk page) Create a Gadget Portal on MediaWiki, Gadget Village Pumps

Mark has been working with Saibo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Commons:Village_pump#MediaWiki_1.19_deployment_to_Commons Look in Mark’s daily log for names of other gadgets, etc. helpers.

[edit] SWIFT deployment support

UNKNOWN.

[edit] Bug Triage

Mark: Friday Triage and volunteer gathering for any new 1.19 bugs. TODO: Sumana: to publicize

[edit] Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)

Continuing to do this in 20% standups MARK TO COORDINATE RE FIXMES

[edit] Bugzilla application management

Last week: Ask Rusty Burchfield (gicode) to get something going with git integration? (pushed to this week)

[edit] Wikimedia blog maintenance

On hold last week, working on it this week, see February Roadmap for details https:// www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap#TL.3BDR

[edit] Training documentation

On hold this week

[edit] Monthly report

Guillaume sent the “please add your updates for this month” e-mail to engineering@ to start assembling the February report : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/February

Please add status updates to your project(s) regularly to make the February report less

painful than the January one: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering

[edit] Communications support

Guillaume

  • getting back to people who need stuff from me (e.g. Wikimania help)
  • sort of handed over the SOPA tech retrospective to Matthew because it’s too hard for me to

find the information, and I can’t do it this week anyway

[edit] Engineering project documentation

Guillaume:

  • perennial project page maintenance

Sumana: git post is up and git docs are far better. TODO: arrange git/gerrit/git-review training for the 27th.

[edit] Recruiting/hiring

[edit] Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin)

Sumana used en.wp talk pages to reach out to a lot of template & gadgets people about upcoming events. Talked to Katie Filbert about structure for https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon

Sumana

  • Follow-up on Pune event (7-19 promising volunteers)
  • Follow-up for San Francisco event (including posting SF hackathon postmortem)
  • Possible Brazil event
  • Planning for Wikidata / structured data part of Berlin event

TODO: Mark to forward Sumana Portugese Wikibooks/Collection work people

[edit] Conferences in general

  • this week: Sumana reaching out to people who are not part of the 1.19 team, to encourage

them to submit proposals, etc. Sumana started a Wikimania submission

Wikimania, Opensourcebridge, and Grace Hopper conference

[edit] Commit Access

same... need to work on git future

[edit] Recruitment/encouragement

Sumana responding on mailing lists, etc.

[edit] GSoC

Sumana spending lots of time encouraging GSoC participants in IRC and mailing lists. Going to a women’s college on Thursday for general recruitment + GSoC recruitment. Updated https:/ /www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_Past_Projects with info about past projects. Need to start writing org application this week.

  • Sumana to provide template for emailing past professors, students, etc.

[edit] UCOSP

Basically progressing fine except that the mobile team does not have enough time to mentor them thoroughly this month. Sumana improved https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ UCOSP_Spring_2012

[edit] Dev community metrics

Sumana worked with Claudia

[edit] Misc

  • Chris discovered -- Labs is not automated. TODO: Chris to note the Labs gatekeeping

painpoints - on mediawiki.org, Wikimedia Labs discussion page

  • Sumana drawing up TL;DR team plan today (Tuesday) for March team visit - includes

Wikimania submissions including scheduling of sessions this week if possible

  • Sumana out of office Wed. night through Thursday
  • Guillaume in SF from March 1st to March 14th. On vacation from March 15th until March 23rd.
  • Sumana in SF Feb 29-March 10
  • TODO: Sumana to add link to archived notes in TL;DR section of Platform Eng page



[edit] 28 Feb

TLDR meeting, 28 Feb 2012


Attending: Guillaume, Mark, Sumana, Chris McMahon, RobLa


[edit] List of projects

  • Code review meistering
  • 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
  • SWIFT deployment support
  • Bug Triage
    • Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
  • Bugzilla application management
  • Wikimedia blog maintenance
  • Training documentation
  • Monthly report
  • Communications support
  • Engineering project documentation
  • Recruiting/hiring
  • Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
    • Conferences in general
  • Commit Access
  • Recruitment/encouragement
    • GSOC
    • UCOSP
  • Dev community metrics


[edit] Who's doing what (this week)

Chris: 1.19 deployment testing

    • making topics for next week’s SF visit (1.20 planning etc.)
    • experimenting with labs
    • learning git/gerrit

Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage Guillaume: communications support, monthly report, blog maintenance RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment Sumana: Commit access, volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git)


[edit] Code review meistering

Mark coordinating with RobLa.


We went back up to about 258 unreviewed revisions per https://toolserver.org/~robla/crstats/


Slush is still in effect -- we want people to arrange reviewers before they push anything that’s not a little bugfix. Reviewers, please revert anything that isn’t.


[edit] 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support

RobLa: delays, or will we deploy to en.wp and all the Wikipedias this week? YES (the latter!)


http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/119triage


Dutch & Polish Wikipedia seem fine! Mark talked to Siebrand, who found a small JS problem in Dutch WP. Krinkle looking at it.

  • TODO: Mark to add volunteer names to the spreadsheet.


We’re thinking of doing a point deploy from trunk in early Mark, opportunistically. Start the 1.20 series with 1.20 wmf1? how to decouple deployments from releases?


Bugs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&target_milestone=1.19wmf%20deployment&list_id=95048


Chris, Mark, Guillaume:


Chris: on top of testing effort Guillaume: ongoing maintenance & updating of the translations of the maintenance banners, landing pages, etc.


Communicating with Gadgets creators?

  • TODO: Mark to add some people’s contact info to volunteer spreadsheet


[edit] SWIFT deployment support

Currently: deployment went well; only doing thumbnails, not originals. Origs deployment at some point to occur. There are some broken imgs that we can clear up, mostly, by purging cache. They seem to be dated from around Feb 2, or before. Ben is planning to accelerate finding and fixing those.


FileBackend/SwiftMedia: Aaron’s software is all written & polished.


[edit] Bug Triage

1.19 is all the week since *pedias are being done now.

  • TODO: Mark to plan Friday bug triage.


[edit] Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)

Continuing to do this in 20% standups - One fixme from code Roan committed in 1.19, Krinkle is trying to come up with a solution. 22 FIXMEs post-1.19. Mark is nagging them.


[edit] Bugzilla application management

Asked Rusty Burchfield (gicode) to get something going with git integration -- I talked to Rusty. He doesn't have time right now, but maybe he will later. In the meantime, I think I can figure out a way to create local branches from patches and, once Gerrit is ready, push those branches. Mark thinks this is trivial to do. Rob: This is a nice-to-have. Git makes this straightforward to do manually. Let’s not assign this to someone.

  • TODO: Sumana to ask Rusty to do this by mid-March if possible


[edit] Wikimedia blog maintenance

Guillaume created RT tickets last week, RobH processed one (upgrading WordPress code & 3rd-party plugins). Recent theme & WMBlog plugin improvements still awaiting deployment. Guillaume also started to rewrite the theme’s layout so it can be centered (which isn’t trivial, because the theme was originally based on the very MediaWiki-specific Vector layout. Made good progress last week, trying to finish this this week if time (besides monthly report & travel), otherwise next week (if I can get stuff done between meetings).


[edit] Training documentation

Sumana wrote/edited a bunch of Git docs, especially https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Workflow and has been running tutorials using that as a reference.


We need to improve our installation instructions for MediaWiki.


[edit] Monthly report

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/February


TL;DR and Platform in good shape, Guillaume is talking to the engineering directors to get the info for the other groups.


[edit] Communications support

<not much besides 1.19> Guillaume had a meeting with the extended Communications team last week; discussion to be continued in SF (about communications, the blog, processes; etc.)


[edit] Engineering project documentation

Guillaume:

  • perennial project page maintenance


Sumana: updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Conversion and a few other projects, told volunteers about https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Project_documentation_howto


[edit] Recruiting/hiring

Rob? (private)


fairly new opening: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/Lucene_Search_Operations_Engineer


[edit] Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)

Sumana followed up on Pune event, needs to work on other followup & planning; this week will have call re Berlin planning


[edit] Conferences in general

Sumana continuing to reach out and help arrange talks at upcoming events; added them to engineering calendar, including Calls for Participation ending in about 2 weeks. Submitted OSB proposal http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/758 and helped connect recruiter Karen Chelini with possible conferences to sponsor.


[edit] Commit Access

Behind due to deployments & Git migration; scheduled an extra-long meeting for next week to discuss how to deal with project ownership additions, changes, and removals in the new Git/Gerrit future


[edit] Recruitment/encouragement

Sumana continuing to do this.

  • Talked to mediawiki-l about the issue of spam and vandalism in MediaWiki installations, updated docs to recommend Extension:QuestyCaptcha
  • Marked patches that need review. Currently above 130 for MediaWiki core, 60 for extensions WMF deploys.

Rob says: go ahead and recruit skilled reviewers to review patches.


[edit] GSoC

Sumana spending lots of time encouraging GSoC participants in IRC and mailing lists. Last week, encouraged about 100 women at Wellesley to apply. Need to start writing org application this week!


  • TODO: Sumana to provide template for emailing past professors, students, etc. -- need to do this this week!


[edit] UCOSP

Basically progressing fine


[edit] Dev community metrics

On hold, waiting for Claudia to do some Bugzilla-related stuff in March


[edit] Misc

  • TL;DR team plan for March team visit - includes some strategy and budget thinking, Wikimania submissions sprint, Chris/Mark info transfer, and thinking about effectiveness in communications.


  • Sumana out of office Wed. afternoon while heading to SF, in SF Feb 29-March 10


  • Guillaume in SF from March 1st to March 14th. On vacation from March 15th to March 23rd.


  • Rob out-of-office week of Mar 26
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