User:Sumanah/archivedtldrmeetings May2012

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012

= 1 May 2012 =

Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.19 tarball
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bugzilla application management
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Highest priority: Feature Test Charters for Weekend Testing May 5, Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts, 1.20 testing, SF visit for test env. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: monthly report 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 Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity

Testing infrastructure/automation
Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Blog post?

Blog post forthcoming from SF next week perhaps?

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

Tauhida?

Labs problems with TMH

would like to do a testing project with OpenHatch for AFT, replied to email -early June, AFT testing, OH Chris in charge of this

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.19 tarball
(nothing from us this week)

1.20 deployment
Have preliminary Release Notes, Feature Test Charters, to be finalized today, hopefully after fixing Special:Version

Git and Gerrit migration

 * Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info

Bugzilla application management
Git integration?

Wikimedia blog maintenance
on hold this week

Training documentation
Contractor to work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
Guillaume sprinting on this this week

Communications support
on hold this week

Engineering activity documentation
pages updated while putting together the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

QA Engineer position should go public RSN

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC
Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

 * TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
- working on checking the validity of the bug database (created from data provided by Mark) - still differences in result set from database and the bugzilla api, a lot of preparation stuff such as setting up postgresConnection in R - papers collected and partially reviewed but not documented yet - to summarize: did a lot of useful but not very successful (showable) stuff - hope there will be better/more news next week

Misc

 * Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
 * Guillaume: tentative vacation 16-18 May
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.

= 8 May 2012 =

Engineering Community Team meeting, 8 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bugzilla application management
 * 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

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: In SF for Labs work. Weekend Testing retrospective, QA hires discussion. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, blog maintenance 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 Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity

Testing infrastructure/automation
Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps?

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

planning OpenHatch event

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.20 deployment
Feature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.

Git and Gerrit migration
Sumana managing Danielle

Bugzilla application management
Git integration work on hold for next bug wrangler

Wikimedia blog maintenance

 * Some minor (and overdue) changes to the theme, now deployed to production
 * going through the initial pains of the wikimedia-flavored git/gerrit process and wrapping my head around it

Training documentation
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
on hold until later this month

Communications support

 * blog team office hours (Wednesday)
 * discussions about how to encourage engineering staff to blog on the WMF blog and not on 3rd party sites (today)

Engineering activity documentation

 * starting to plan wikitech cleanup

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Wikimania

 * Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC
Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

 * TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
Claudia is working with the Bugzilla API because she can't get the full database dump because of the restrictions re the private bugs Mark will set up a separate meeting with Claudia & maybe with Chris since he wants to learn more about the BZ API
 * TODO: Mark to set up separate Claudia & Chris meeting

Misc

 * Chris - in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
 * Guillaume: tentative vacation 16-18 May possible day or two off in May to move, (around a week-end)
 * Sumana: some offline time Wed & Thurs, some time off late next week
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012

= 16 May 2012 =

Engineering Community Team meeting, 16 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris?

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bugzilla application management
 * 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

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Labs followup. QA interviews. (ties in with labs). Feature testing efforts 1.20wmf3 ongoing deployments. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: engineering project documentation, Wikimania, communications support 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 Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity

Testing infrastructure/automation
Blog post forthcoming from SF this week perhaps? Chris fleshing this out.

Labs Getting labs usable will take quite some time

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

AFT testing, bringing Tauhida up to speed. AFT test plan for June 9. improve EE test env?

planning OpenHatch event - June 9th, Sat, 10am

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.20 deployment
Feature Test Charters done and used. Generally pleased with how it worked out, pending retrospective on bugs submitted.

manual testing of critical extensions --  Chris

Git and Gerrit migration
Sumana managing Danielle

Bugzilla application management
Have a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow.

Wikimedia blog maintenance
still on hold this week

Training documentation
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
on hold until later this month

Communications support
Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Engineering activity documentation

 * planning wikitech cleanup; probably going to use a gadget to assess pages, such as the one used by WikiProjects to assess articles

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Chris working on QA engineer hiring
 * TODO: Sumana & Rob - work on job descriptions

Wikimania

 * deprioritized last week
 * Guillaume to start coordination page on meta for "11 years" presentation, add content from Nov. 2011 presentation
 * Sumana & Rob & Guillaume to take a start at transparency talk next week? (May 21)

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general
Sumana to start writing OSBridge keynote

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC
Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
Mark & Chris talked to Claudia - waiting for new questions from her

Misc

 * Guillaume: 1 day off this week spread throughout the week to visit apartments. Possible day or two off later in May to move (around a week-end)
 * Sumana: some offline time Thursday - Friday & Monday, in SF
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012

= 16 May 2012 =

Engineering Community Team meeting, 16 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, 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
 * Bugzilla application management
 * 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

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Testing infrastructure/automation. Hiring. Feature testing efforts. Community testing planning. Mark: Deployment support, BZ application management, bug squad Guillaume: communications support, engineering project documentation, Wikimania, monthly report 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 Claudia: Dev community metrics

Testing infrastructure/automation
Chris: Ongoing labs followup and status reporting.

I'd really like to have a solid QA Engineer hire in the pipe before cranking full-on with automation efforts. In the meantime, the better Labs is the better the automation effort will be.

Labs Great improvements recently from Antoine, but TMH is still not fit to be tested.

It's in Antoine's hands now. He's rebuilding it in Puppet.... Chris is project managing this activity Watch the wikivideo mailing list.
 * Chris to fwd to labs-l

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)-- identified a nice usability issue recently that will get addressed soon by Pau.

(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)

Community testing planning
planning OpenHatch event - June 9th, Sat, 10am-noon Pacific Time

Ongoing. Several small announcements in place, planning major announcement May 28. Test Plan is essentially complete. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/22/collaborative-software-testing-you-can-help/
 * will announce to Chris's blog, twitter, WTA, OpenHatch

Chris: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process

(discussion of Teahouse - actually, Chris is suggesting that the testers create accounts, do 10 edits on their user/talk pages)

Chris to begin planning a 3rd community testing event possibly for July or August. I have a lead to follow up on next week, but not sure it will pan out.

20% time wrangling
Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)

1.20 deployment
Is getting routine.

about 5 highest-priority bugs come in every 2 weeks? been rapidly addressed
 * TODO: Mark to check on that # and whether it is trending up/steady/down
 * TODO: Mark to add ChrisM to the list of people to alert with new highest-priority bugs

Git and Gerrit migration
Extension conversion backlog Sumana managing Danielle git office hour today

Bugzilla application management
Have a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow. Work this week on some basic template fixes that will bring small usablity improvements

Wikimedia blog maintenance
still on hold this week

Training documentation
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
getting started this week RMoen's status helper to be released today in beta, will help.

Communications support
Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc. getting more requests for review/help, which is taking time but GOOD

Engineering activity documentation

 * planning wikitech cleanup; found the gadget used by fr.wp WikiProjects to assess articles; started fiddling with it, but it's probably more time-efficient to ask the gadget's author for help. Target date: before the hackathon, so that the Ops team can use the tool during an Ops sprint if possible

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review, looking forward to QA Volunteer Coord announcement.

Wikimania

 * deprioritized last week
 * Guillaume hoping to finally start 11 years presentation
 * Sumana & Rob & Guillaume to take a start at transparency talk next week? (Berlin)

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general
Sumana to start writing OSBridge keynote

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

(BZ - Thehelpfulone)
 * TODO: Mark to contact some BZ admins re privs

GSoC
Sumana Kickoff! Need to do IRC HOWTO, argh

UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
- 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

 * Sumana: some offline time today
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012
 * Berlin hackathon affecting your colleagues May 29-June 4th

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_May2012

= 22 May 2012 =

Engineering Community Team meeting, 22 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, 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
 * Bugzilla application management
 * 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

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Testing infrastructure/automation. Hiring. Feature testing efforts. Community testing planning. Mark: Deployment support, BZ application management, bug squad Guillaume: communications support, engineering project documentation, Wikimania, monthly report 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 Claudia: Dev community metrics

Testing infrastructure/automation
Chris: Ongoing labs followup and status reporting.

I'd really like to have a solid QA Engineer hire in the pipe before cranking full-on with automation efforts. In the meantime, the better Labs is the better the automation effort will be.

Labs Great improvements recently from Antoine, but TMH is still not fit to be tested.

It's in Antoine's hands now. He's rebuilding it in Puppet.... Chris is project managing this activity Watch the wikivideo mailing list.
 * Chris to fwd to labs-l

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)-- identified a nice usability issue recently that will get addressed soon by Pau.

(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)

Community testing planning
planning OpenHatch event - June 9th, Sat, 10am-noon Pacific Time

Ongoing. Several small announcements in place, planning major announcement May 28. Test Plan is essentially complete. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/22/collaborative-software-testing-you-can-help/
 * will announce to Chris's blog, twitter, WTA, OpenHatch

Chris: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process

(discussion of Teahouse - actually, Chris is suggesting that the testers create accounts, do 10 edits on their user/talk pages)

Chris to begin planning a 3rd community testing event possibly for July or August. I have a lead to follow up on next week, but not sure it will pan out.

20% time wrangling
Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)

1.20 deployment
Is getting routine.

about 5 highest-priority bugs come in every 2 weeks? been rapidly addressed
 * TODO: Mark to check on that # and whether it is trending up/steady/down
 * TODO: Mark to add ChrisM to the list of people to alert with new highest-priority bugs

Git and Gerrit migration
Extension conversion backlog Sumana managing Danielle git office hour today

Bugzilla application management
Have a sponsor (in WMF!) for the Debian package for Bugzilla - Faidon (paravoid). Discussion on wikitech-l for improvment of bz workflow. Work this week on some basic template fixes that will bring small usablity improvements

Wikimedia blog maintenance
still on hold this week

Training documentation
Contractor working on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
getting started this week RMoen's status helper to be released today in beta, will help.

Communications support
Guillaume following up on requests, blog post reviews, etc. getting more requests for review/help, which is taking time but GOOD

Engineering activity documentation

 * planning wikitech cleanup; found the gadget used by fr.wp WikiProjects to assess articles; started fiddling with it, but it's probably more time-efficient to ask the gadget's author for help. Target date: before the hackathon, so that the Ops team can use the tool during an Ops sprint if possible

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review, looking forward to QA Volunteer Coord announcement.

Wikimania

 * deprioritized last week
 * Guillaume hoping to finally start 11 years presentation
 * Sumana & Rob & Guillaume to take a start at transparency talk next week? (Berlin)

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general
Sumana to start writing OSBridge keynote

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

(BZ - Thehelpfulone)
 * TODO: Mark to contact some BZ admins re privs

GSoC
Sumana Kickoff! Need to do IRC HOWTO, argh

UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
- 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

 * Sumana: some offline time today
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012
 * Berlin hackathon affecting your colleagues May 29-June 4th