Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-09

Monthly report summary
Where else should we be publicizing this? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March/summary
 * send it to wikitech-ambassadors
 * it's already in the WMF-wide report

High-priority escalations

 * RobLa, were you able to ask Greg to follow up re outage incident reports?
 * Greg will not have it as a high urgent priority, but in the long run it is important. RobLa to talk to Greg.
 * Andre, anything new?
 * Nothing really urgent
 * some thumbnail cache purging issues again: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46976 (pinged on IRC, email to ops@)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46836,46834 not urgent but waiting for attention / assignee (FlaggedRevs, ResLoader)
 * Localisation update problem may still be an issue right now

Best practices for community events

 * using #wikimedia-office - preferred to #wikimedia-dev, less noisy
 * greeting every person who shows up (check hostmask for possible regulars versus newbies)
 * what kinds of promotion have been effective? ambassadors list? emailing specific interested people?
 * can we let people subscribe to something so we can send a notification back?
 * Ask Alex Monk/Krenair re Echo
 * BZ - ping reporters. We have a magic URL for "YOUR reports"
 * specific steps & tasks

Followups

 * Filling in Platform & Ops in QA amenability spreadsheet
 * https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agte_lJNpi-OdGpJSHdMZV83UjdTdHc5UFVrdXBwaWc#gid=0
 * The way we handle unit testing in Platform is different enough from other bits that priority will not be very useful for that - it's up to dev teams to do the bulk of the work on unit testing; Antoine provides generalized infrastructure. In Platform, we should focus activities on the first 3 columns.
 * Chris to publish QA work-in-progress and/or roadmap to PMs (etc.) based on this doc. (Greg does a similar thing, speaking with him about ways&means)
 * Chris to publish "when to bring in QA" guide/best practice/outline. (See FYI below?)
 * Bugzilla admin rights
 * have some been removed? what's the policy re NDA?
 * Andre has removed some (24 -> 18), still on it, been on the backburner. Policy: Not started yet.

Wikimania
April 30th is the submission deadline; What shall we submit?
 * https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
 * Quim & Andre each to submit a standalone thing? Maybe merge them into 1 ECT "state of the union"?  Single session is nicer to the organizers

FYI
Quim wants to organize a couple of surveys:
 * Quantitative and mostly "external": best timings and channels for QA activities.
 * Qualitative and mostly WMF: best ways for QA activities to contribute to development efforts.
 * Qualtrics

Vacations/holidays
me Andre: Željko: Chris:
 * Sumana offline of today + morning Wednesday + part of Thursday
 * Guillaume out for probably a few days this week
 * a few days around Amsterdam (May 24th)
 * maybe Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, June 18–21, 2013
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
 * Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)
 * maybe August 14-18, JRubyConf (August 14-15) + European Ruby Camp (August 16-18), both in Berlin, Germany
 * Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
 * May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
 * May 13-17 relocating, details TBD
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)