User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/archivedectmeetings Aug2013

Wikimania
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submissions/Transparency_and_collaboration_in_Wikimedia_engineering (Sumana, Quim, Andre) & https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Improving_MediaWiki_quality:_How_everybody_can_help_with_bug_report_triaging (Andre) https://metrics.wmflabs.org/ - Sumana to ask Analytics to blog about this
 * next year's: lots of bigdata/UX outreach planned by WM 2014
 * Tech/News & release notes - revamping/rethinking. Make tech news more "how this affects users", roll release notes into tech news?  Need to take care re overwhelming Tech/News; only put in breaking changes/big things....
 * Tomasz (volunteer) is taking wikibreak; Guillaume recruiting - Andrew Gray?
 * The site's security certificate is not trusted! it should probably be http, not https (http://metrics.wmflabs.org/) -- yes, with the new CentralAuth you're going to get security warnings for all labs hosts

Community metrics
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071157.html
 * Key community metrics to influence our plans

Next Wikimedia Tech meetup
next time: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community
 * http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/119408822/ - Wednesday, August 21 -- topic missing but Quim has one idea: a Flow prototype live demo / workshop - t get direct user feedback?
 * If there is no time to agree this with the Flow team then we will postpone until we have a good plan.
 * Fabrice - Multimedia roundtable?

Conferences, dates
Other conference deadlines:
 * September all-hands: tickets?
 * TODO: Sumana to ask Doreen
 * Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * Željko:
 * August 16-18, eurucamp/JRubyConf EU Workshop, Berlin, German
 * a day or two off in the middle of August
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * from early September, 2-4 weeks in San Francisco
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Aug 23 PTO
 * possible days off in October
 * linux.conf.au
 * Quim submitted a proposal for a talk.
 * Željko did the same.
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion

Deployments this week
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_August_19th
 * VE
 * DNS
 * HTTPS

Community metrics

 * Key community metrics to influence our plans http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-August/071157.html
 * Please comment today or tomorrow

Group goals
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals#Wikimedia_Technical_Community Where are we?


 * Several (6) volunteers know how to contribute to and fix automated tests, and do so regularly, improving our capacity for faster deployments. -- in the first half of this quarter, we loosely have those 6 people, but we have to use the next half to tighten up. There is growing interest. Quim to focus on those who have already shown interest, get three nice pairs of people meeting every week or 2 to write scenarios
 * Quim to use September face-to-face time to move forward
 * To improve awareness of Wikimedia's engineering needs, we systematically reach out to FLOSS projects we rely on, and grow Tech Ambassadors membership. -- no real progress yet, wait till September

Conferences, dates
Conferences & deadlines:
 * September all-hands: tickets? - almost all sorted. Now, hotel!
 * Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * August Fri30: Likely only "half available" (travelling, but not completely offline)
 * Sumana
 * Offline but working Thursday and Monday
 * Željko:
 * a day or two off in the middle of August
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * early September, 2 weeks in San Francisco
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Fri Aug 23 PTO
 * possible days off in October
 * Grace Hopper in early October in Minneapolis
 * http://www.netways.de/puppetcamp/puppet_camp_nov_2013/cfp/ Puppet Camp in October in Munich
 * Diversity conference in November in Berlin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion
 * https://fosdem.org/2014/news/2013-08-06-call-for-participation/ - Quim will look

Deployments

 * HTTPS https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#August_28.2C_2013_-_Secure_log-in.2C_with_secure_browsing_and_editing_for_logged_in_users
 * http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/HTTPS1308
 * beta cluster problem - probably fix 2 weeks away - depending on Ryan Lane https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48501
 * Search - also Wednesday
 * will want to do a call for feedback -- you can compare searches across different backends. Compare your favorite searches! Mail out to wikitech-l & add to tech news?
 * an explanation of why we are changing backends would be nice. :-)
 * TODO: Greg & Guillaume to get a communication plan together with Chad & Nik
 * general weekly deployment rhythm - how is that going? are we catching bugs fast enough?
 * need more teams joining the train.
 * Greg: gut reaction: yes, we get a lot of feedback from pushing to non-Wikipedia projects. Fewer code changes in each deploy, so we respond faster, it feels like.  Data-gathering: on Greg's long-term TODO after this week's firefighting.
 * Andre: analyze in BZ: on which dates do we have the most incoming bug reports? Past analysis didn't prove anything

General coordination
How are these going? Anything falling through the cracks?
 * Language team
 * Multimedia
 * User Experience

Mentorship programs
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/status & https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2013
 * How is GSoC going?
 * All in all OK - this week, they are delivering monthly reports

Release/QA quarterly review
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngQuarterlyReview-201308
 * Anything you need ECT help with?
 * nothing specific

VisualEditor & Guillaume transitioning back to ECT

 * Need help with monthly report for August?
 * I should be ok; thank you for asking :) I'll ask if it turns out I need help.
 * Anything to report from VE-land?
 * Not really; We're mostly doing liaison work at the moment. We don't yet have a schedule for the next deployments (to the next wikis).
 * TODO: Greg to check on this

Weekly Tech news
Should it go on the blog?
 * Background: Matthew Roth suggested that we publish Greg's Deployment highlights on the blog. Greg wasn't sure they were "good enough" so Guillaume offered to start with publishing the tech news on the blog, since they include most of the deployment highlights. Opinions are welcome. (Greg, correct me if I misunderstood something.)
 * What if we have the Tech News but also include a paragraph expanding on one point, thanking one specific person?
 * A Code Tour http://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/124230.html that thanks specific people http://dstry.it/R25b
 * Quim points out that if we increase the burden, it won't happen...

IEG & tech projects
(push to next week)

Conferences, dates
Conferences & deadlines:
 * September all-hands: is hotel sorted out?
 * We should probably also start thinking about what we'll do there. i.e. maybe a couple meetings on specific topics outside of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/WMF_Tech_Days_2013/Brainstorming ?
 * Grace Hopper in early October in Minneapolis
 * Diversity conference 9-10 November in Berlin - please register by Sept. 18 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
 * FOSDEM - Quim contacted the organizers to checked whether it would be preferrable to have a Wikimedia or a Wiki devroom. Waited for an answer a week, will go for a Wikimedia proposal, open to be changed.
 * Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * August Fri30: Likely only "half available" (travelling, but not completely offline)
 * October Fri04-Mon07: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * Željko:
 * September 5-6, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * early September, 2 weeks in San Francisco
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * possible days off in October