Wikimedia Quality and Test Engineering Team/Meetings/2021

= 2021-02-10 = - Round Robin - = 2021-01-27 = - Topics - - Round Robin - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271978 - (GrowthTeam) lots of documentation and other preparatory materials on Structured tasks - Add Link, Add Image - (Structured Data team) keep testing UI improvements for MediaSearch - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252692 [XL] Add support for boolean operators (AND, OR, -) to MediaSearch profile - the workload is normal so far - onboarding meetings with new devs for Growth team - it was interesting to talk to new people about QA processes and compare with their previous experience working with QA _____________________________________ = 2021-01-13 = - Topics - - Round Robin - Lots of testing for UI improvements on MeidaSearch - Required a db conf change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272103[regression - wmf.26] frwiki Homepage SE module has 'cirrussearch-query-too-long' for default filters - few bugs for MediaSearch - T271373, T271388, T271874, T272000 - looks normal so far - MediaSearch should be made default by the end of March - it requires a good QA focus on the project, but luckily Growth team still works on the backend for Add link Structured task. WP20 Birthday banners https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271749 Thank you campaign 2021 Birthday banners Updated triage script is getting close - Bug verification, ITC, Testing considerations Learning French
 * Attendance: Pita, Željko, Dom, Elena, Rummana, Anthony, Edward, Harriet
 * Anthony
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Watchlists on Android and bug regression
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Normal testing
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Looking good
 * Other interesting things
 * https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/
 * Dom
 * Notable features being worked on
 * SecurePoll
 * WS Export tool
 * Working on the new Wikisource extension (to improve UI/UX of ebook exports)
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Manageable at the moment
 * Other interesting things
 * We have added 3 devs to AHT since December, with one more coming soon
 * Edward
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * A lot of testing in Prod with the train delay. Still manageable.
 * Other interesting things
 * Should be starting Vue Search testing next week.
 * Pita
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Section Translation (SX) is about to be released to only one wiki (bengali) for testing
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Many bugs on the new SX project
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * SX is on the last stretch but don't think I need any help
 * Other interesting things
 * Rummana
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Topic Subscription work coming up
 * Other interesting things
 * Train being blocked delaying some verification task
 * Zeljko
 * Project updates
 * Scaling GrowthExperiments - Help panel tests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274166
 * Off-board from Release Engineering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267313
 * Logstash/Kibana presentation at QTE meeting https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274167
 * Other interesting things
 * Maintain a few Phabricator badges https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273660
 * new badge: Outreach Program Organizers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/recipients/20/
 * Local testing meetup is now online https://www.meetup.com/testival/
 * Deep Work by Cal Newport https://filipin.eu/deep-work
 * Deep Work at Lunch and learn https://filipin.eu/deep-work-at-lunch-and-learn
 * Elena
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Special:MediaSearch - refactoring of Search (required significant re-testing); UI improvements verifying
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Digging into eventlogging validation errors (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273700) and, overall, logstash errors
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Need help from Product Analytics people - already booked a slot for Office hours
 * Other interesting things
 * finally organized my ideas on testing Search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/226/testing_search_in_mediasearch/
 * Attendance: Pita, Ed, Monte, Anthony, Rummana, Željko
 * Anthony
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Testing release candidates for both iOS and Android
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Working on a new bug with article history on Android. Found a couple of other new bugs that have been fixed or closed. Nothing new on iOS yet.
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Workload is fine right now
 * Other interesting things
 * When the kids are all home doing online learning it is difficult to do online work :)
 * Dom
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Edward
 * Notable features being worked on
 * a lot of Max-Width testing happening
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * nothing really noteable, just more volume
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * No Help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Elena
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Greg
 * EngProd updates
 * Other interesting things
 * JR
 * Project updates
 * Other interesting things
 * John
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Monte
 * Project updates
 * Triage script is fully working. Tweaking UI a bit today.
 * Other interesting things
 * Looks like about 10" of snow overnight!
 * Pita
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Rummana
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Add topic tool under Discussion tool
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Lots of issues around New topic adding:
 * T272666: Comment highlight appears in an unexpected position.
 * T272746: [Regression pre-wmf.28] Comments are getting added in wrong order.
 * T272545: New Discussion Tool does not open if you have Reply Tool open from before.
 * T272543: The feedback message around the title field validation should disappear after adding a topic name
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Zeljko
 * Project updates
 * Working deeply on Deep Work talk for Engineering Productivity Lunch and Learn https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270773
 * Harriets internship project entered the third (of three) milestones https://github.com/hariclerry/mediawiki/milestones
 * Other interesting things
 * Chess at the next watercooler https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245252
 * Blogging like I mean it https://filipin.eu/blog
 * Attendance:
 * Anthony
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Dom
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271804 :( (but I got to +1 a commit :))
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Quite a lot of work on Wikisource/WSExport and SecurePoll
 * AHT has two new engineers and 2 more joining soon
 * Other interesting things
 * We are forming a new T&S engineering team
 * Edward
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Currently light but expected to get busy in the next week or two.
 * Other interesting things
 * Went to fix 1 selenium test that keeps erroring out, and found 3 tests that keep erroring out. but none locally.
 * Elena
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Greg
 * EngProd updates
 * Other interesting things
 * JR
 * Project updates
 * Other interesting things
 * John
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Monte
 * Project updates
 * Other interesting things
 * Pita
 * Notable features being worked on
 * Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Rummana
 * Notable features/tasks being worked on
 * Current and projected workload - any help needed
 * Other interesting things
 * Zeljko
 * Project updates
 * Outreachy mentorship going on great: Mentor Outreachy Round 21 intern https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263240
 * Soon... Off-board from Release Engineering https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267313
 * With a lot of help from Pita: Evaluate Appium https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251508
 * Watercooler coming soon: Set up Engineering Productivity watercooler meeting https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245252
 * Soon... Deep Work book discussion: Engineering Productivity Lunch and learn https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270773
 * The club down to 3 members: Organize a blog post writing club https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263660
 * Other interesting things
 * A local testing meetup I help organize is now online, feel free to join: https://www.meetup.com/testival/
 * Fall down while having fun with the kids on the snow, can't run for 2-3 weeks 😱 (at least)