Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-07-09

ULS & ml.wiki
SUL release: This bug report is instructive about how SUL will behave. Note the two redirects upon logging in to an SUL wiki. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72365/6/features/uls_ime.feature https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50334 working with Amir on a browser test for Malayam ULS: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72365/6/features/uls_ime.feature. The behavior of CTRL-M In this situation is not yet clear.

Today's quarterly review
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review lessons learned - talk about code review backlog - fixed nuance re "lack of awareness" - fixed nuance re pm volunteers - fixed quim to give women OPW/GSoC stats remove [1] - fixed Goals: 10+ volunteers writing automated tests? now 6: fixed add to "next" that Guillaume on VE for 1/3 of this quarter - fixed demote community metrics thing - fixed Open questions if we have time:
 * metrics, specific focus areas to widen bottlenecks, figuring out how to do maintainership right - will address
 * are there changes we need to be making to wikitech.wikimedia.org/mediawiki? What are your pain points?
 * coding and review bottlenecks we want to fix:

are JavaScript and security the top priorities?

Tech talks & helping produce & curate videos/tutorials - ok approach?

What about performance and Puppetization?

Misc

 * No need to chat, but for http://korma.wmflabs.org/ Quim needs your input on KEY metrics, things that help measuring our performance or making decisions e.g. "time to resolve bugs", "time to resolve gerrit changesets", etc.
 * +1 to time to resolve gerrit changesets
 * also, # of open changesets (not opened)
 * break down by branch? eg 1.21 vs 1.22 dev cycles comparison
 * Also Quim wants to say Thank You for the Tech News. It's been several weeks now and the quality / interest stands. Well done!
 * Please share this with user:odder, who's been doing an awesome job on tech news, sometimes doing all the work
 * I will. Quim.

Upcoming changes/dates
Other conference deadlines:
 * Guillaume possibly a couple days off in August/September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * July Wed31-August Mon05: GNOME GUADEC (Brno/CZ)
 * August Wed07-August Mon12: Wikimania (Hongkong/PRC)
 * October Fri04-Sun06: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * July 16th: all-day meeting
 * Quim flying to Germany this weekend, will work from there until Wikimania, except
 * Quim on holidays July 24-31. Then flying to Hong Kong on Aug 2.
 * Željko:
 * July: some unavailability
 * August 16-18, eurucamp, Berlin, Germany (maybe, waiting for reply if my workshop is accepted, not likely)
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia (talk accepted!)
 * November 7, SQA Days-14, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"
 * LCA : July 20th http://linux.conf.au/media/news/1
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion