Meetings/2012-10-18

What is it: Frequent (weekly?) open meetings of the Wikimedia technology community to discuss technical issues, architectural challenges and process improvements.

How does it work: We're trying a combination of Google Hangout on Air (an open YouTube stream from the 6th floor of the WMF office) + potential additional Hangout guest speakers + IRC for text-based communication. There's no attendance limit. You don't need Hangout to participate -- if you can play YouTube videos and join IRC, you're fine.

When: October 18, 2012, 19:30 UTC (12:30 pacific time), 60-90 mins (timeanddate.com timezone conversion)

Where:


 * Physical space: 6th floor SF office, "Collab" space
 * IRC: #wikimedia-dev-meetings on irc.freenode.net
 * Video stream: YouTube URL, to be published on IRC once stream is live

Food: It's a brown bag - bring your own :)

First topic
Suggestions:
 * How do we integrate and deploy code? How do we grant deployer permission, and who do we grant it to? Is our deployment tooling good enough, and if not, how can we improve it (who will help)? What do other organizations (e.g. GitHub, Facebook, Mozilla) do that we don't?
 * git-flow overview by Dan

Attendees
Sign up below:
 * 1) Eloquence (talk) 03:17, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) S Page (WMF) (talk) 04:18, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) MarkTraceur (talk) 06:29, 5 October 2012 (UTC) (only on IRC, G+ is no good)
 * 4) Chris McMahon (talk)
 * 5) LWelling (talk) 15:41, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 6) Tychay (talk) 17:48, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 7) Dan Andreescu (talk).  I propose we talk about git-flow now that we're on git, I can give a quick overview.
 * Thank you for the git-flow idea. I've used it for one month with success on Zed, a personal project. I discovered a successful git branching model when I were browsing Git workflows to find schema to explain our own Wikimedia workflow. --Dereckson (talk) 07:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Mwalker (WMF) (talk) 20:12, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 2) ori (talk) 21:46, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 3) Dereckson (talk) 07:44, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 4) Qgil (talk) 15:46, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

ToDos

 * Chip is on the AV setup -Tychay (talk) 18:15, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Should probably reserve the colllab space and create an entry in the engineering calendar (at least for the first one)
 * Space is reserved.--Eloquence (talk) 21:08, 5 October 2012 (UTC)