Developer Relations

Purpose

 * Attract and support volunteer technologists so that they can become an even more powerful force in driving improvement on the website
 * Help nurture volunteer-developed extensions and widgets
 * Provide communications support for all groups in the engineering department
 * Develop clear documentation for MediaWiki so that new staff, volunteer developers and external users have a smooth ramp-up process to becoming MediaWiki developers

Events
Where to meet us face to face. See also Calendar.
 * WikiCon 2013 in Karlsruhe (DE), November 22-24, 2013

Current activities
See also Engineering Community team meetings.


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Planning
We connect our short term plans with the 2013-14 Engineering Community goals at the ECT Showcase. We might fine tune plans in our weekly meetings.


 * /November 2013 Quarterly Review

Guillaume

 * Publish the engineering report for November
 * Follow up on support requests (e.g. blog post reviews)
 * Get the weekly tech newsletter assembled, published, translated and delivered (ideally with help)
 * Publish behind-the-scenes article about how the tech newsletter is assembled and delivered
 * Prepare Google Code-In tasks for the Community change team and serve as a proxy
 * Mentor Google Code-In students
 * With Andre: Start planning evaluation of Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools.

Quim

 * Keep pushing Google Code-In
 * Coordinate FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7
 * Co-mentor OPW project mediawiki.org homepage redesign
 * Start Facebook Open Academy Program
 * Co-organize Wikis devroom at FOSDEM (schedule defined)
 * Organize Wikimedia Multimedia meetup in San Francisco
 * Complete Community metrics: Who contributes code and Gerrit review queue key progress indicators. (Bitergia) (moved from November)
 * Select one technical writer temporary contractor
 * Convert to GCI tasks:
 * Wrap up Google Summer of Code 2013 (moved from October)
 * Self-help guide to organize events. See Events kit and how WordPress does it.
 * Plan a Guided Tour at mediawiki.org.
 * Improve the confirmation email sent to new registered users and sync Template:Welcome.
 * What to do with the social media stats being collected at Talk:Community metrics?

Andre

 * Google Code-In: Run and organize contest with Quim.
 * Agree and finalize on "etiquette" for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@. - incorporated feedback from teampractices@, now asked for feedback on wikitech-l@
 * Start planning evaluation of Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools.
 * Test Bugzilla 4.4 with our custom patches on Labs (or zirconium in eqiad if production is still on kaulen in Tampa)., will need help from ops. Steps discussed between dzahn and aklapper on 2013-12-06.
 * Deploy Bugzilla 4.4 to production., will need help from ops

Guillaume

 * Publish the engineering report for October
 * Follow up on support requests (e.g. blog post reviews)
 * Get the weekly tech newsletter assembled, published, translated and delivered (ideally with help)
 * Prepare for Google Code-In: prepare tasks and add them to melange, reach out to volunteers and other Wikimedia teams for collaboration
 * Mentor Google Code-In students

Quim

 * Start Google Code-In
 * Start FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7
 * Engineering Community team quarterly review
 * Proposal for a Wikimedia stand at FOSDEM submitted by November 20. (Dimitar Parvanov)
 * Complete Community metrics: Who contributes code and Gerrit review queue key progress indicators. (Bitergia)
 * Send Request for Proposals for a technical writer temporary contractor
 * Help organizing Architecture meetings
 * Convert to GCI tasks:
 * Google Code-in
 * Review and polish browser test automation docs for newcomers. (moved from October) (QA team is working on this)
 * Screencast: how to file your first bug report. (moved from October) (Part 1)
 * Wrap up Google Summer of Code 2013 (moved from October)
 * Update Possible Projects (moved from October)

Andre

 * Google Code-In: Define generic information (template) for all task descriptions; clean up & import tasks from wiki into Google Melange. (except for tasks missing a mentor)
 * Finish cleaning up and syncing custom CSS in Wikimedia Bugzilla. - done (except for two CSS files) (54823)
 * Write an "etiquette" draft for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@. - first draft available
 * Start planning evaluation of Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools.
 * Start porting our custom Bugzilla patches by porting our 4.2 custom patches to deploy on a vanilla Bugzilla 4.4. (49597)

October 2013
Guillaume
 * Publish the engineering report for September ✅
 * Follow up on outstanding requests (e.g. blog post reviews) ✅
 * Finish to assemble and publish the tech newsletter ✅
 * Rest! ✅
 * Catch up ✅
 * Assemble and publish tech newsletter ✅
 * Start drafting the engineering report for October ✅
 * Plan the activities for the next month ✅

Quim
 * Events: MediaWiki 1.22 Release Plan tech talk ✅ and Flow UX Workshop meetup ✅
 * Participating in Google Code-in ✅
 * Bootstrap experiment of ECT public meetings. ✅
 * Wrap up Google Summer of Code 2013 and leave Possible Projects ready for FOSS Outreach Program for Women - round 7
 * Community metrics: Who contributes code key progress indicator
 * Bug of the Week ready to start.
 * Start drafting MediaWiki OSS Way of Working (too busy, maybe after GCI)
 * Promote OAuth to app developers? (waiting for the team to answer back)

Quarterly goals
See our agreed mid term goals at Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals.

Guillaume

 * Provide ongoing communications support (blog post reviews, activity pages, etc.)
 * Assemble and publish monthly reports
 * Revive tech news and try to assemble a team of volunteers
 * Experiment with "bug of the week" engagement on social media? (and other small experiments we discussed in SF: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sustainability_tech_contributors.png ) put on backburner in favor of Google Code-In
 * Prepare Google Code-In, publicize communications/documentation tasks, and mentor students

Andre

 * Make "guided bug report form" usable for Bugzilla newbies (inherit feedback from design team)
 * Show InlineHistory in Bugzilla - 47256.
 * Prepare and organize Wikimedia participation in Google Code-In with Quim.
 * Work on "etiquette" draft for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@.
 * Evaluate Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. - drafting initial kick-off email to teampractices@
 * Prepare / start testing upgrade to Bugzilla 4.4 (and our custom patches) - 49597.
 * Think about better Bugzilla taxonomy (products/components structure) and identify some initial non-controversial tasks. - 38990., first small steps: 57738, 54063
 * See Bug management/Task list for full list of plans and more information.

Quim

 * FOSS Outreach Program for Women - round 7 kicked off with at least 8 interns and new lessons learned.
 * First Wikimedia participation in Google Code-In headed to a successful completion.
 * About 6 volunteers contributing to automated tests regularly. (cancelled)
 * At least 3 Key Progress Indicators integrated to the Tech Communit Metrics dashboard.
 * MediaWiki Architecture Summit, Wikimedia participation at FOSDEM and pre-Wikimania London hackathons ready to roll.
 * "Bug of the Week" process working, including promotion. (after Google Code-in)
 * MediaWiki OSS Way of Working proposal discussed publicly with Wikimedia Foundation development teams and community liaisons. (maybe after Google Code-in)

Sumana

 * On sabbatical until Jan 2014.