Wikimedia Engineering/Report/2012/October

Engineering metrics in October:
 * unique committers contributed patchsets of code to MediaWiki.
 * The total number of unresolved commits went from about 440 to.
 * About shell requests were processed.
 * About developers got access to Git and Wikimedia Labs.
 * Wikimedia Labs now hosts projects,  users; to date  instances have been created.

Major news in October include:

Upcoming events
Bangalore DevCamp (9–11 November 2012, Bangalore, India)

Work with us
Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up, and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.

Announcements

 * Željko Filipin joined the Platform engineering team as QA Engineer (announcement).
 * Andre Klapper joined the Platform engineering team as Bug Wrangler (announcement).
 * Michelle Grover joined the Mobile engineering team as a QA contractor (announcement).
 * Michelle Grover joined the Mobile engineering team as a QA contractor (announcement).

Technical Operations
Site infrastructure

Wikimedia Labs

Data Dumps

Other news

Future
The engineering management team continues to update the Software deployments page weekly, providing up-to-date information on the upcoming deployments to Wikimedia sites, as well as the engineering roadmap, listing ongoing and future Wikimedia engineering efforts.