Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-16

GSoC/OPW
Signal-to-noise is good. We're pushing new people to useful pages right away and there are mentors around and students are getting mentors' respect. GSoC looks good. OPW - we have requests, mostly overlapping with GSoC. Greg to consider mentoring a release manager intern
 * Aayush251 would like to submit browser test automation project for GSOC; Quim will reply
 * rachel99 is interested in browser test automation project for OPW

High-priority escalations
seems stable Andre/Greg Monday meetings help

Weekly Bugzilla report
Guillaume: any weekly tech summary ought to link to weekly BZ summary. Don't include all of it, but definitely link & perhaps decide on 1 or 2 most-relevant metrics to include
 * can Quim and/or Andre add the numbers that Quim sent to wikitech to the script?
 * Is that about total number of tickets excl. enh && lowest? It's on andre's todo list, but if anybody feels like hacking PHP and SQL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=operations/puppet.git;a=blob;f=templates/misc/bugzilla_report.php;hb=HEAD
 * Yes
 * Andre on listing the most urgent tickets - hard to exclude the closed ones! works when Andre tests it locally. Andre's posted a BZ ticket with link to the problematic changesets
 * I am not sure if I did "update new version of this file" correctly for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla_Weekly_Report

MariaDB rollout

 * Communcations: Look out for a blog post from Asher this week
 * errors for Andre to watch out for: replag. If there are big big problems Ops will catch it.

LevelUp working/not working
on whether people get the time they need to do this stuff. We need to make it not feel like a distraction, like it's hyper-auxiliary. More integrated into our overall set of goals. Better alignment of mentoring activities with overall goals we're trying to achieve as an eng org. Plus managers impressing importance of this.
 * graph - data -might be useful

Wikimania & Amsterdam hackathon
Wikimania: April 30th is the submission deadline; What shall we submit? Amsterdam
 * https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
 * Sumana - respond today to Quim
 * Andre - would like to team up for a proposal. QA/community outreach, Andre could have 5 min re bug reporting?
 * Sumana needs to help wrangle tutorials for Amsterdam hackathon prep

Misc

 * Is anyone waiting on an urgent response from Guillaume? (finishing to catch up, but if you need something to be moved to the top of the list, please say so)
 * Testing activities: We need to assure more participation before getting events where we get 3-5 participants.

Vacations, conferences, etc.
Sumana: Andre: Željko: Chris:
 * June is weird
 * a few days around Amsterdam (likely May 20 - May 26)
 * Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, (June 18–21), likely SF before or after
 * May 18-23 Amsterdam with my family
 * May 23-27, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
 * Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)
 * maybe August 14-18, JRubyConf (August 14-15) + European Ruby Camp (August 16-18), both in Berlin, Germany
 * Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
 * May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
 * May 13-17 relocating, details TBD
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"