Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-01-03

01827604270 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Platform_Engineering QA: ECT: Reminder to have monthly statuses for the monthly report this week!
 * Goal: January 4th, have all the browser automation docs refactored
 * This is on track but is also ongoing :-)
 * On Monday - have someone from target audience playtest the docs
 * MobileFrontend on beta - Michelle is leading that
 * "First substantive systematic outreach to potential testers (possibly via CentralNotice banners)"
 * Echo is now deployed to mediawiki.org and has a basic testplan. Having more eyeballs will be useful.  Quim & Chris discussed. Quim to check in with Fabrice & Kaldari today
 * RobLa: we need very good general-purpose coverage for the data center migration Jan 22
 * There are 3 or 4 useful browser tests in the QA backlog -- features known to be fragile
 * Chris created a NPP test & found it's broken in IE7 & IE6
 * Chris to move the checklist from an etherpad to a wiki today
 * Andre's blog post: http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2013/01/01/wikimedias-bug-management/
 * Bug days will be monthly
 * Bug day may be connected to some other testing
 * For bug triage: look statistically at components that look like a mess or people who have a lot of tickets assigned to them (e.g. Chris Steipp?)
 * Look at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Qa/test_backlog#Backlog to help QA add backlog items for problems that manifest in the UI
 * Andre to look at his table of who runs what components & possibly share/publish
 * Guillaume Paumier: "As a quick note, I'd love to get some feedback on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors ; I'm going to discuss it with a few other people as well, but people in this group probably have comments and opinions on it."
 * He's tried to shorten it - please read it in its entirety.
 * Anything confusing? a good idea?
 * RobLa & Sumana: look on ambassadors talkpage re difference between product manager & ambassador
 * RobLa believes the ambassadors page should at least allude to PMs -- at least link to a place that exists (maybe link to the blog post) agreed, Guillaume will add it as well as the How to contribute link suggested by Quim

Misc notes
Chris will submit a talk to an Agile testing conference