Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-08-28

ECT 2012-08-28 Attending: RobLa, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
 * Feature testing efforts
 * Community testing planning
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Tech ambassadors
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Wikimania
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania, future)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * Dev community metrics
 * HR feedback

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: beta labs, New Pages Feed/Curation, hiring, vacation Guillaume: tech ambassadors, communications support, monthly report Sumana: 20% time wrangling, yearly review of Guillaume, Grace Hopper prep, Bangalore prep, volunteer encouragement, GSoC wrapup

Feature testing efforts
NPF/Curation is top priority right now AFTv5 still being tweaked

Beta labs
Antoine is on it

Community testing planning
async testing for NPF to be announced, no event planned Chris will announce it before he goes on vacation

20% time wrangling
Sumana on this but prepping for discussion at allstaff

1.20 deployment
remains routine (this is slightly scary, it's TOO quiet) Chris wants to work on this as a medium priority - what coverage do we have with unit tests? and what steps can we take to make deployments more risky

Git and Gerrit migration
nothing important for us right now

Training documentation
Chris on docs review team for NPF

Monthly report
QA is done, review at will Get your statuses in regularly!

Communications support
Guillaume catching up

Tech ambassadors
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Ambassadors almost ready for publication. Need to amend the "Priority activities" section (notably, based on RobLa's input) and finish catching up on related e-mail & mailing list threads before sending out announcements to avoid making any comms faux-pas. Target date: tomorrow

Engineering activity documentation
Activity pages and status pages are being updated as the August report is being put together. New hub for i18n team: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Internationalization_and_Localization_engineering Please add a status update for your activities for the August report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/August#Platform_Engineering

Recruiting/hiring
Excellent candidate in place for QA Engineer New excellent candidate for Mobile QA Excellent candidate for Outreach Note about Bug Wrangler

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Bangalore planning - November

Conferences in general
Grace Hopper -  need to plan

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana managing

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana reaching out

GSoC
Sumana needs to write a wrapup post -- maybe next week

Dev community metrics
(Claudia missing)

Misc
Sumana: in SF next week Guillaume: Possible vacation after the all staff Chris: vacation Aug 31-Sep 7