User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings July2012

Engineering Community Team meeting, 3 July, 2012

Attending: 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
 * 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)
Chris: -- AFT deploy, hiring are top priorities. Will reviews half-dozen new applications for QA Engineer

Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania prep 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics

-- Conversation is ongoing, but policy (per Rob) of "if it has a  deployment scheduled, get it on beta labs" is in place and everyone is  aware of it.
 * Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)

Feature testing efforts
-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 1% of enwiki -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now

Community testing planning
-- Nothing solid right now, but discussed an Extensions bug triage project with Weekend Testers, they're interested -- review Openhatch test event

OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? Chris McMahon will schedule it.

Extensions testing w/WT

Parveen? none

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.20 deployment
-- is becoming routine

Training documentation
somewhat updated more in early July

Monthly report
Get your statuses in by Thursday!

Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Recruiting/hiring
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. Tech and panel interviews in progress for four candidates.

Wikimania
Guillaume: presentation prep, currently consolidating content around https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_history before using it to build the presentation Sumana: need to prep presentation, need to write to Wikimania participants to suggest wikitech-ambassadors meetup

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep, need to do SF & Berlin followup,

Conferences in general
Sumana to write blog post about OSB

SMWCon - Chris to consider

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

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

GSoC
Sumana need to continue

UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem
 * TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email

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
Tomorrow is US holiday

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_June2012

Engineering Community Team meeting, 17 July, 2012

Attending: 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
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * 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: AFT productization, deployment, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements, automation Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania follow-up 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics

Feature testing efforts
-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 10% of enwiki + IE7 support -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now -- AFTv5 live on labs beta, need to make it usable now, have a use case in hand

Community testing planning
no plan currently Visual Editor? Talk to James Forrester

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.20 deployment
-- is becoming routine

Training documentation
New stuff from OpenHatch
 * Sumana: need to write checklists for Rob to follow

Monthly report
Get your statuses in regularly!

Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Engineering activity documentation
Nothing to report

Recruiting/hiring
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. Tech and panel interviews finished for four candidates.

Wikimania
Followup?

Guillaume:
 * clearing e-mail/watchlist backlog
 * follow up on contacts

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon followup, need to do SF & Berlin followup,

Conferences in general
Sumana to write blog post about OSB

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

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

GSoC
Sumana need to continue

UCOSP
Did postmortem
 * Sumana: to email wikitech-l and other groups about future projects

Misc
Sumana's upcoming vacation Guillaume - starting in 2-3 days, more asynchronous than usual till 6 Aug

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedectmeetings_June2012

Engineering Community Team meeting, 17 July, 2012

Attending: 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
 * 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: AFT productization, check bug fix for 3 power users, deployment, QA Eng hiring, beta labs improvements for AFT Guillaume: communications support, tech ambassadors, monthly report, chasing reliable wifi 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics

Feature testing efforts
Isolated AFT bug affecting small number of AFT power users to particular bit of javascript, potential fix to be deployed today, will be following up on that behavior.

Community testing planning
Contacted Visual Editor team so they know testing (both me and community) is available

20% time wrangling
Sumana (if you see something that needs doing, tell Rob while Sumana is away)

1.20 deployment
-- is becoming routine Guillaume to consider working on deployment communications plan

Training documentation
New stuff from OpenHatch
 * Sumana: need to write checklists for Rob to follow

Monthly report
Get your statuses in regularly! Next week: Aug 1 deadline

Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Tech ambassadors

 * started to assemble a list of possible ambassadors
 * started to put together a plan of action

Engineering activity documentation
Activity pages are being updated in parallel with the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator

Chris has inquiry from acquaintance for Bug Wrangler

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

Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review. Tech and panel interviews finished for four candidates.

Wikimania
Followup

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon followup, need to do SF & Berlin followup,

Conferences in general
Sumana to write blog post about OSB

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly - need to delegate for vacation

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue, recruited others to help Sumana continuing to do this.

GSoC
Sumana need to continue, & delegate

UCOSP
Did postmortem
 * Sumana: to email wikitech-l and other groups about future projects

Misc
Sumana's upcoming vacation Guillaume - more asynchronous than usual till 6 Aug