User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/archivedectmeetings Jan2013

January 3 2013
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

Jan 8 2013
Quim looks forward to your feedback ref Thanks! http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning QA this week: extending automated test coverage (espec re EQIAD migration) & focusing on building community -- test exercise for Echo. Echo IRC meeting today. Test exercise planned for Jan 30th. Later today, Quim & Chris to decide goals for that exercise. MobileFrontend in beta labs - scheduled for spike on the 14th -- 1 or 2 sprints
 * Syncing "News" block with our social media? (in mediawiki.org homepage) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki#Syncing_.22News.22_block_with_our_social_media.3F_21999
 * [Wikitech-l] How to contribute to sysadmin / devops http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-January/065514.html
 * Goal - EOD tomorrow - clearer howto on writing acceptance criteria

Jan 17 2013
Andre did https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Development_teams_usage -- check it out! Quim waiting for response re wheel thread on wikitech-l

QA
QA last week: extending automated test coverage (espec re EQIAD migration) continues Building community -- test exercise for Echo canceled MobileFrontend in beta labs - spike on the 14th successful, Max/Antoine/Arthur proceeding Current policy: code deployed to beta has to have been merged to the master branch. This will probably be too restrictive for mobile & AFT. This discussion will have to occur at some point soon.
 * http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning
 * Quim rethinking how we do test exercises

Trying out a meeting revamp
Guillaume agrees with Quim that we (ECT, QA, PM...) tend to work in silos even though we talk to each other regularly. We may not have a holistic & collaborative enough approach, and we would probably benefit from more coordination with what we all do So, for next week:
 * We will invite Mariya and Valerie
 * Have your activity statuses updated reasonably recently before the weekly meeting, and read each other's statuses before the meeting
 * At the start of the meeting we will hash out an agenda of stuff to talk about together to collaborate on a higher level

Misc
Travel - Feb 25 - Mar 1 ? :) FOSDEM upcoming - Filipin is giving a talk. Quim helping with merchandise
 * Zeljko and Chris will arrive around Feb 18