Web Team/Bookmarks

This page and its subpages are intended to be a repository of team documentation.


 * To learn about the role, projects, and members of the team, as well as to check how to contact the team, go to Reading/Web.

Process

 * Daily chores
 * Phabricator backlog


 * Roles and responsibilities
 * Software component responsibilities
 * Phabricator information (boards & workflows)
 * Deployment procedures/guidelines
 * Story estimation
 * Chore results
 * What to do with an UBN
 * Quantitative testing
 * Submitting a request for the team

Onboarding

 * Newbies guide
 * Mobile beta


 * Team norms
 * Team values
 * Various wikis of Wikimedia, and how to log in to them
 * Developers/Maintainers. See table for extensions/skins maintained by web team.

Onboarding for developers

 * What is MobileFrontend and Minerva ?
 * Reading/Web/Getting setup with code review
 * Working with Vagrant
 * Performance
 * Development cycle
 * Coding conventions documentation (style, organization, commit message guidelines, etc)
 * Caching - see T124954 (Varnish) and ResourceLoader (client code).


 * QA - how to use browser tests
 * Wikimedia Design Style Guide

Community engagement

 * Recommendations for mobile friendly articles
 * Working with editors to get templates fixed
 * Graphs of phabricator/irc usage

Software development and testing

 * QA process
 * Articles we test on
 * Devices and browsers we test on
 * Reading/Web/QUnit test guidelines
 * Reading/Web/Working with legacy code
 * List of server log files known to Wikipedia project
 * Readers/Web/Building features with cached HTML in mind

Starting a new project

 * Setting up instances on wmflabs.org
 * Setting up a Gerrit repository (general notes)
 * Experience notes & followup
 * Review queue - for getting new projects in production
 * Hosting prototypes

Continuous Integration

 * Entry points
 * Popups Gerrit autorebase tool

Deploying, debugging and releasing

 * Pushing production code from beta to stable
 * JavaScript client error alerts
 * Setting up alerts with grafana
 * Reading/Web/Setting up instances on wmflabs.org
 * Release process
 * How to deploy code
 * Deploy gotchas
 * SSH configuration notes
 * Requesting shell access
 * Video showing deployment procedures
 * Reading/Web/Debugging with WebClientError
 * Running maintenance scripts

Analytics

 * EventLogging
 * Accessing Hive and accessing page view data
 * Access data about our projects (page views, editors, edits, change in bytes) using wikistats
 * Need to know what % of traffic is Opera Mini? Look no further - Turnilo or User agent breakdowns.
 * Using Turnilo

Other

 * Reporting an incident
 * Sunsetting a project (killing a project)
 * Icinga (network monitoring)

Research

 * Prototyping
 * Mexico Readers Research

Releases

 * Release timeline

Archived Notes

 * Reading Web 2015 - Q1 Feature stabilization
 * Q1 Planning, 2014-2015
 * Quarterly review meetings:
 * April 2015
 * January 2015
 * earlier