User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/archivedectmeetings NovDec2012

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Engineering Community Team notes = Dec 11 2012 = Activity statuses: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering Quim: see also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil#Waiting Goals:
 * as followup to garbled CSS display stuff -- we need better cache docs re how the different caches interplay

Three online or in-person QA trainings for the community - moved from Q1 --- move to Jan

* "5 documenters" goal - failing

* vol sysadmins - check

* Quim to work on defining testers goal better

= Dec 4 2012 = Andre to lead a process of figuring out what to do with the current deployment problem (garbled display) Take a look at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_communications/Fall_2012_consultation

Misc notes
Blog posts - Quim to publish a blog post about these metrics reports + Ohloh + Bitergia, and Andre & Chris might write a post on QA/testing/reporting a bug Reminder: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Guidelines ; please let Guillaume know a few days in advance when you're planning to publish it SUMANA: get tech chat video for Commons uploading from Chip

Travel
Travel: Sumana in SF Nov 29-Dec 11 see GCal for Dec holiday stuff =Nov 27= Activity statuses: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering

Misc notes
LabeledSectionTransclusion changes: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/wmf5#LabeledSectionTransclusion https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/status Andre is working on change to priorities BZ upgrade probably by end of 2012 Quim: Outreach Program for Women: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_large_bugs http://socialcoding4good.org/organizations/wikimedia Discussion of HR orientation -- ok to take the next opportunity on this or to watch video.

Travel
Travel: Sumana in SF Nov 29-Dec 11