Developer Relations/Weekly summary

We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by Developer Relations: technical documentation, events, and community. See Phab:T114224.

2015-10-08

 * By the call for participation deadline on October 2, the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 had
 * 52 session proposals presented
 * 129 people registered, from which 17 request travel sponsorship.
 * Outreachy round 11 is approaching. We have project proposals, we need feedback and mentors! Check the Possible-Tech-Projects workboard. (T112620)
 * (Second call for consensus in first sections of Code of Conduct draft)
 * There is a new process to mark inactive software projects, aimed to highlight stalled repositories without code reviewers or maintainers. (T102920)
 * Creating tasks to clean the code review queue of slow repositories? The first task goes for analytics/wikistats. (T113695)
 * Google has released a set of Freebase to Wikidata mapping tools thanks to an internship with Tpt. (announcement)

Metrics

 * Repositories with slowest code review: 1. Repo (days) 2. 3. 4. 5. (to be filled on 2015-10-07)

Jul-Sep 2015
Tech community metrics presented at the Community Engagement quarterly review:

Code review
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.2 days (-21.3% QoQ, -21.1% YoY)
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 67.2 days (-19.5% QoQ, 51.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1075 (0.8% QoQ, 2.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 192 (-14.2% QoQ, -35.1% YoY)
 * Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3639 (10.9% QoQ, 21.7% YoY)
 * Number of code uploaders per month: 205 (-0.2% QoQ, 0.5% YoY)
 * Number of code reviewers per month: 189 (0.5% QoQ, 4.4% YoY)
 * Number of code committers per month: 128 (-3.0% QoQ, 13.2% YoY)

Phabricator
 * 863 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during September, our highest number so far.
 * 363 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator, keeping a growing trend.

Upcoming events
(FIXME: New Wikimedia Blog technology posts? Architecture RfC meetings?)
 * YYYY-MM-DD: etc etc