Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-08-14

ECT 2012-08-14 Attending: RobLa, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
 * Feature testing efforts
 * Community testing planning
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Tech ambassadors
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Wikimania
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania, future)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics
 * HR feedback

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: PageTriage testing, test planning for community event, interviews, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements for AFT and E2 paused while Antoine on vacation. Legwork for proposed community test event for E2 on Sept 8 with WTA and Openhatch. Guillaume: tech ambassadors, communications support RobLa: Hiring Sumana: on vacation

Feature testing efforts
PageTriage getting near socialization stage AFT getting db tuning right now for later expansion

Community testing planning
Possible PageTriage test Sept 8, plan to make the call on that no later than Friday

20% time wrangling
Been working with Diederik: http://gerrit-stats.wmflabs.org/graphs/mediawiki (gives a mostly blank page right now)

1.20 deployment
1.20wmf9 deployed everywhere but *.wikipedia.org (enwiki has it, though)

Git and Gerrit migration
Guillaume followed up on Sumana's request to ask people for updates

Training documentation

 * No new news

Monthly report
Get your statuses in regularly!

Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc. today, working on a rush on Srikanth's post

Tech ambassadors

 * draft on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Guillom/Ambassadors ; solicited some initial feedback, will continue to do so and amend

Engineering activity documentation
nothing special to report

Misc
Sumana: on vacation Guillaume: Possible vacation after the all staff Chris: vacation Aug 31-Sep 7 Platform Engineering meeting on Thursday, 10am PDT