User:Sumanah/archivedtldrmeetings Apr2012

archived to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/archivedtldrmeetings_Mar2012

= 3 April 2012 =

TLDR meeting, 3 April 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Project plan for QA testing
 * QA FY 2013 planning
 * Code review meistering
 * 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * SWIFT deployment support
 * TMH testing
 * Editor Engagement testing
 * Bug Triage
 * Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
 * Testing infrastructure
 * Bugzilla application management
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering project documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Project plan for QA testing, QA fiscal year 2013 planning, testing project for TimedMediaHandler, working with Antoine to get testing infrastructure in place on Labs, testing Editor Engagement software, browser test automation, AFT (misc QA)


 * TODO: Sumana to re-structure QA activity tracking

Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruiting & encouragement Guillaume: Monthly report, catching up (done), annual goals, blog maintenance, not sleeping, having allergies RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment followup, Git migration Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, engineering project documentation (git), Gerrit project ownership

Project plan for QA testing
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing Chris to talk to Siebrand/Niklas Good framework in place need to keep doc updated

Fiscal Year 2013 planning
Chris to follow up on making https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals#QA_Engineering_and_Continuous_Integration more detailed

Code review meistering
On hold till we have a fulltime bugmeister ShortURL is Mark's big goal :-)

1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
last couple of bugs being addressed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi?resolution=---&target_milestone=1.19.0%20release 2 there - Trevor met with Roan & JS people
 * Mark to ping Trevor and the other person.
 * This is Mark's highest priority

Git and Gerrit migration
Sumana doing some project management here

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=22596&hide_resolved=0

SWIFT deployment support
SWIFT is now on Labs! stable for now.

TimedMediaHandler testing
(still struggling with Labs, this is my top priority now) Commons-y test case, interdependent with Labs work

Editor Engagement testing
(following up with Ian on this, haven't heard anything) Ongoing work adjunct to AFTv5 testing.

Bug Triage
1.19? for only two bugs? - ok, if only 2 bugs, no 1.19 bug triage. idea: sprint to maybe work on the what's new page, make it more like 1.18's? (Mark's 2nd priority) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19 Guillaume can help prettify / reword it, but it's the devs who know what's new, so they need to add the raw material to the page

Individual developer assignment work (what bugs are assigned to whom)
Waiting for fulltime bugmeister

Testing infrastructure
Presented browser test automation prototype, following up with more info to participants. Working on Labs - top priority for Chris.

Bugzilla application management
Git integration? API doesn't have the stuff in it that Mark wants.... there might be another approach bz package - there is none for Bugzilla 4 (not bugmeister work). Get this puppetized in Labs.

Wikimedia blog maintenance
Guillaume resuming work on this -- plugin & feature research, follow up on requests, finish the layout rewrite

Training documentation
Nothing this week Coming up in April: work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs & security training docs

Monthly report
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/March in reasonably good shape; offenders have been spammed (twice)

Communications support
not much planned this week on this, probably to be resumed next week

Engineering project documentation
Guillaume updating pages while putting together the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring
Rob; not in this meeting Sumana should get started on event manager, bugmeister

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana doing general planning, outreach now that Berlin reg form is settled, volunteer sponsorship-wrangling, setting up process for future sponsorship-deciding

Conferences in general
Sumana should tell Erik and recruiters what we should sponsor.

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana needs to start regular ownership-addition procedure

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana & Mark continuing to do this. finding people to work on bug squad, need to start producing goals for the squad and having measurable progress towards them (somewhat lower priority)

GSoC
Proposals are coming in. Sumana needs to do some administrative work re mentors, students, backup admin

UCOSP
Wiktionary template social engineering held up on friction with the Wiktionary community checked in with Amgine, Tomasz; Tomasz is taking care of it this week

Dev community metrics
Need to respond to Claudia

Misc
Chris updated installation docs! php5-mysql was the missing dependency.

= 10 April 2012 =

TLDR meeting, 10 April 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bug Triage
 * Bugzilla application management
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts Mark: 1.19 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: Communications support, engineering activity documentation, blog maintenance RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment followup, Git migration Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, 20% time wrangling Claudia: dev cmty metrics

Testing infrastructure/automation
Presented browser test automation prototype, following up with more info to participants. Working on Labs - top priority for Chris.

Continue working with Labs in greater detail: test data and ongoing maintenance are key. Clarified status on activity page

Nag in a month for blog post.

Feature testing efforts
SWIFT, TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5),

Following up on TMH errors found, more Labs wrangling.

Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.

Chris getting into mobile stuff this week.

20% time wrangling
Sumana discussion on wikitech-l about backlog on the extension review queue Sumana has done cleanup, talked to Howie, Rob, Tim
 * Mark will push for ShortURL

1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
last couple of bugs being addressed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/query.cgi?resolution=---&target_milestone=1.19.0%20release 2 there - Trevor met with Roan & JS people
 * Mark to ping Trevor and Timo
 * This is Mark's highest priority -- but nothing happened on either one of these :( even after I pinged them.

Timo has no time to work on this.
 * Mark: (Talk to Sam about how to proceed.)
 * Guillaume will take a look at the MW1.19 page this week, with Sumana

1.20 deployment
So apparently, we're going to start deploying 1.20 next week. Rob will ask Guillaume for communications support. Sumana talked about how to move forward - initial steps
 * Mark to create rough 1.20 talking points (things to watch out for) just after this meeting
 * Guillaume to possibly talk with Sumana after meeting about 1.20 talking points

Git and Gerrit migration
Sumana handing over project management to Chad.

Request for Guillaume to work with Sumana, Chad to help with documentation on MediaWiki.org - Guillaume doesn't have time for much
 * Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info

Bug Triage
maybe no public bug triage this week -- following up on dataleak bugs

Bugzilla application management
Git integration? API doesn't have the stuff in it that Mark wants.... there might be another approach bz package - there is none for Bugzilla 4 (not bugmeister work). Get this puppetized in Labs. Just put it on the bz-dev server last night, going to work on puppet today.

Wikimedia blog maintenance
Guillaume resumed work on this -- finish plugin & feature research & create RT tickets for install & setup, follow up on requests, continue to draft specs and timeline for blog analytics, hopefully also finish the layout rewrite but more likely to be next week

Training documentation
Need to work on Git docs - asking Guillaume for help... later (via Chad)

Coming up in April & May: work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs & security training docs

Monthly report
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/March is out, thanks. Please keep adding status updates for this month.

Communications support
side activity: Guillaume preparing howto for Andrew White to switch the staff IRC channel to private (yay!)

Engineering activity documentation
The project activity page system is now pretty stable and working well, and we have 3 out of the 4 engineering groups using them. Guillaume & Rob talked about going the extra step to remove the system's pain points and make so really awesome that people will have *no* excuse not to use it, and hopefully they'll even start liking it. Guillaume is working on specifications and Rob (possibly aided by a JavaScript expert) will help with implementation.

Recruiting/hiring
Rob; not in this meeting Sumana should get started on event manager, bugmeister, some contract help for the next few months

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana doing general planning, outreach now that Berlin reg form is settled, volunteer sponsorship-wrangling

Conferences in general
Sumana should tell Erik and recruiters what we should sponsor. (Need to do soon)

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana started regular ownership-addition procedure; will run through these whenever new ones get added

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this. Mark: finding people to work on bug squad, need to start producing goals for the squad and having measurable progress towards them (somewhat lower priority)

GSoC
Proposals finished. Sumana needs to set up and run evaluation process

UCOSP
End of term

Dev community metrics
- Claudia: - read tldr notes from the last weeks as well as many (not all) mails from wikitech-l - in the middle of collecting, reading and distilling probably useful measures from various research related to bug management in oos - I plan to: update my user page with metrics and finish first overview analyses from bugzilla

Misc

 * Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
 * Sumana to be in SF this month - Apr 18? - 25?

= 17 April 2012 =

TLDR meeting, 17 April 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.19 stuff: deployment & release support
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bug Triage
 * Bugzilla application management
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts, Wiktionary app testing, 1.20 testing, WTA planning for May 5, SF visit for test env. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: Communications support, engineering activity documentation, blog maintenance RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.19 deployment followup, Git migration Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC and UCOSP), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, 20% time wrangling Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity

Testing infrastructure/automation
Presented browser test automation prototype, following up with more info to participants. Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Continue working with Labs in greater detail: test data and ongoing maintenance are key. Clarified status on activity page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/testing

Nag in a month for blog post.

Feature testing efforts
1.20 deployment, had my first volunteer stranger ask in IRC to test, had Feature Test Charters all ready to go.

TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5), Tauhida joining(?) TMH testing, brought her up to speed on current situation including BZ issues

Chris getting into mobile stuff this week. Testing Wikitionary app was fun. Chris shadowed Yuvi during beta cycle may be able to take over in next cycle, or help

20% time wrangling
Sumana


 * Mark will push for ShortURL (failed to do this last week, will bump it up this week if no major issues pop up with 1.20)

1.19 tarball
last bug being addressed

34885 -       [Regression] RTL with IE-7 (or IE 8/9 in "compatability mode") does not show any toolbar

Rob writes on 4/11: Trevor, Timo and Roan will make one more attempt at solving this.

1.20 deployment
So far no major issues, but only MW.o and commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VP#1.20wmf1_deployment_complete

Communications work done by Guillaume last week: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Report:Guillaume/2012-04-15#MediaWiki_1.20wmf1_deployment

Git and Gerrit migration

 * Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info

Bug Triage
following up on dataleak bugs Rob followed up on this. Probably on hiatus until we have a fulltime bug wrangler

Bugzilla application management
Git integration? API doesn't have the stuff in it that Mark wants.... there might be another approach bz package - there is none for Bugzilla 4 (not bugmeister work). Get this puppetized in Labs. Just put it on the bz-dev server last night, going to work on puppet today. puppet work was neglected wants to get to it

Wikimedia blog maintenance
Worked resumed but had to be put on hold again last week due to 1.20 deployment communications

Work resumed again this week: testing plugins, modifying the theme, etc. Details at https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Report:Guillaume/2012-04-22#Blog_maintenance

Also started the process to move the code to the Wikimedia repo; waiting on Chad, but I can continue to work on github as usual in the meantime

Training documentation
Need to work on Git docs - asking Guillaume for help... later (via Chad)

Coming up in April & May: work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs & security training docs

Monthly report
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/March is out, thanks. Please keep adding status updates for this month.

Communications support
side activity: Guillaume preparing howto for Andrew White to switch the staff IRC channel to private: done https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/wmfstaff_access

Engineering activity documentation
Draft specs for status helper: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_engineering_project_documentation/Status_helper
 * TODO: Sumana to followup - checkin with Rob, maybe get someone to do this in Berlin

Tons of other small fixes: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Report:Guillaume/2012-04-22#Engineering_project_documentation_.26_Reports

Recruiting/hiring
Rob; not in this meeting Sumana has gotten started on bug wrangler, some contract help for the next few months

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana doing general planning, outreach now that Berlin reg form is settled, volunteer sponsorship-wrangling Chris with Weekend Testers - May 5 project with Weekend Testers should be pretty high profile. Plans are on Chris's talk page - there will be a page to link to on May 1st. Chris will be at a conferenceat that time

Conferences in general
Sumana should tell Erik and recruiters what we should sponsor. doing today!

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this. Mark: finding people to work on bug squad, need to start producing goals for the squad and having measurable progress towards them (somewhat lower priority)
 * Mark to chat with Chris

GSoC
Proposals finished. Sumana running evaluation process

UCOSP

 * Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
- working on checking the validity of the bug database (created from data provided by Mark) - still differences in result set from database and the bugzilla api, a lot of preparation stuff such as setting up postgresConnection in R - papers collected and partially reviewed but not documented yet - to summarize: did a lot of useful but not very successful (showable) stuff - hope there will be better/more news next week

Misc

 * Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
 * Sumana to be in SF this month - Apr 18 - 25
 * Guillaume: vacation 16-18 May