Developer Relations/Weekly summary

We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by Developer Relations: technical documentation, events, and community. See Phab:T114224.

2015-10-29
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Software

 * MediaWiki 1.26 release is approaching. Help addressing blockers is welcomed!
 * Many software news around Wikidata's 3rd birthday on 2015-10-29 \o/
 * Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
 * Wikidata Taxonomy Browser (Announcement and discussion)
 * "Just about a week after its inception, the Distributed Game has passed 10K actions. Enough to see some interesting patterns in the stats." (source)
 * Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
 * ORES, a machine learning model for detecting vandalism in Wikidata.
 * Pronuncify, a new tool to record batches of word pronunciations for Wikimedia Commons.
 * MediaWiki-Codesniffer 0.5.0 released, is now voting on MediaWiki core patches.
 * JetBrains IDE licenses for MW developers

Events

 * Tech Talk: Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL Support on 2015-11-02 20:00 UTC, by MSchottlender (WMF) aka Mooeypoo.
 * Wikisource Conference 2015 (includes hackathon and technical workshops) on 20-22 Nov 2015 in Vienna.
 * The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 24 session proposals on track, 10 missing active discussion, 19 missing expected information.
 * By 2015-11-06 all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan documented in the description.
 * Video recording of Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia.
 * Video recording of the last round of Lightning Talks.

Outreach

 * Outreachy round 11 has 9 featured project ideas and 10 proposals submitted by candidates welcoming community feedback. The deadline for submissions is 2015-11-02.

Community health

 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on Finishing the "Report a problem" section.

Project management

 * MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Tasks/Feature wishlist (T954)

Code review

 * Opt-in Differential for projects needing code review but not Jenkins/Zuul for continuous integration (T94167)

Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) extdist: 312 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) WikimediaMaintenance: 296 days, 2 changesets.

Events

 * Tech Talk: Introduction to Free and Open Source Licensing at Wikimedia on 2015-10-23 17:00 UTC, by Slaporte (WMF) aka Slaporte.
 * The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 10 session proposals on track, 7 missing active discussion, 36 missing expected information.
 * Wikimania 2015 survey results: "The majority (53%) of Hackathon participants discussed future work, and the second-highest mentioned accomplishment was fixing bugs (34%)"

Outreach

 * Outreachy round 11 has 9 featured project ideas and 5 proposals submitted by candidates welcoming community feedback. The deadline for submissions is 2015-11-02.
 * Google Code-in 2015 is coming, and our planning has started.

Documentation

 * API:Presenting Wikidata knowledge is a new article for the Web APIs hub.

Community health

 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on these points:
 * "Publication of non-harassing private communication" (new proposal)
 * "Project administrators and maintainers have the right and responsibility..." (rewording proposal)
 * Finishing the "Report a problem" section (new)

Project management

 * Now anybody can join and watch the Operations project in Phabricator. (T90491)
 * Are the Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary projects in Phabricator useful? (T111046)

Code review

 * Gerrit Cleanup Day: lessons learned and proposal for a new edition in January 2016.
 * Decide/document whether "controversial" changes should be marked as CR-2 in Code Review. (T115850)

Metrics

 * Open changesets without code review is now fixed. The 3 oldest changesets haven't been updated since 2013; 2 were uploaded by volunteers. (T112661)
 * T110520 fixed means that now it is easy to track code review metrics for specific repositories, for instance MediaWiki core.
 * Now we have metrics for all Wikimedia tech IRC channels with logs. (T56230)

Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
 * 3) BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
 * 4) extdist: 312 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) Bootstrap: 281 days, 1 changeset.

2015-10-15

 * The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 has 6 session proposals on track, 4 missing active discussion, 42 missing expected information.
 * Outreachy round 11 has 7 project ideas featured, 16 missing mentors, 28 needing discussion. (workboard)
 * The discussion about the Code of Conduct draft welcomes feedback on these points:
 * Move "Expected behavior" out to a separate guidelines page?
 * Move "Our open source community acknowledges..." out of the CoC?
 * "Publication of non-harassing private communication"
 * "Participate in an authentic and active way"...
 * Project administrators and maintainers have the right and responsibility..."
 * Timo Tijhof (WMF) has joined the Architecture Committee. (announcement)
 * Is there a repository of Wikimedia tools, research projects etc? The answer is between No and Lots. (discussion)
 * A canonical location for metrics documentation? Meta, mediawiki.org, Wikitech? (discussion)
 * Histography.io draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new recorded events. (about - source)

Metrics
Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * 1) Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * 2) Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer: 463 days, 4 changesets.
 * 3) BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
 * 4) BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.
 * 5) Babel: 370 days, 1 changeset.

2015-10-08

 * By the call for participation deadline on October 2, the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 had
 * 52 session proposals presented
 * 129 people registered, from which 17 request travel sponsorship.
 * Outreachy round 11 is here. Tony Thomas is the new org admin, and Niharika Kohli is secondary org admin in this round. (T112267)
 * 5 project ideas featured, 18 missing mentors, 34 need discussion. You can help at Possible-Tech-Projects workboard. (T112620)
 * Code of Conduct draft: the second round of feedback for the first sections ended with mixed results. The open discussions will continue in a new round.
 * There is a new process to mark inactive software projects, aimed to highlight stalled repositories without code reviewers or maintainers. (T102920)
 * Creating tasks to clean the code review queue of slow repositories? The first task goes for analytics/wikistats. (T113695)
 * Google has released a set of Freebase to Wikidata mapping tools thanks to an internship with Tpt. (announcement)

Metrics

 * Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer: 463 days, 4 changesets.
 * EducationProgram: 459 days, 2 changesets.
 * BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
 * BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.

Jul-Sep 2015
Tech community metrics presented at the Community Engagement quarterly review:

Code review
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.2 days (-21.3% Quarter on Quarter, -21.1% Year over Year)
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 67.2 days (-19.5% QoQ, 51.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1075 (0.8% QoQ, 2.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 192 (-14.2% QoQ, -35.1% YoY)
 * Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3639 (10.9% QoQ, 21.7% YoY)
 * Number of code uploaders per month: 205 (-0.2% QoQ, 0.5% YoY)
 * Number of code reviewers per month: 189 (0.5% QoQ, 4.4% YoY)
 * Number of code committers per month: 128 (-3.0% QoQ, 13.2% YoY)

Phabricator
 * 863 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during September, our highest number so far.
 * 363 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator, keeping a growing trend.