Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2014-02-18

Bugzilla 4.4

 * Bugzilla was upgraded to 4.4, moved to a new server, and puppetized. It also displays common queries on the front page now.

PM Tools task

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_management_tools/Review/Requirements
 * Not to spend too much time playing with tools and reading their docs
 * Use list at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_management_tools#What_are_the_alternatives_to_Mingle_and_Trello.3F
 * Guillaume thinks the array of tools should cover all infrastructure pieces, e.g. grouping like "Bugzilla + Gerrit + ..." when one tool does not cover all pieces.
 * List all options discussed, make clear it's a draft; below the cut we have tools that we won't discuss anymore and the reasons for this.
 * Guillaume & Andre to make a draft of the list of all tools
 * Make a cut (drop/discard some tools from list of candidates).
 * Email to teampractices@ to test the waters. "we have 9 tools, can we get to three? We need to clean the list / eliminate and focus the discussion."
 * Does the cut make sense? If not why?
 * Try to get agreement on the cut.
 * when things too silent, too noisy, or consensus: reach out to wider wikitech-l: We started gathering requirements, we worked with the teampractices@ list to prepare candidates, does this make any sense to you?

Then: prototypes and RFC?

RFC process
list of requirements & nonreqs for this document -- including whether this needs to exist. person to start with: csteipp. the one who really wanted this to exist. get it out of architects' heads & into a doc to point to so, know what this will need to look like. then use SF visit to fill that out, interview Brion for stuff
 * weekly cadence of RFC meetings
 * have a defined scope for arch guidelines 1.0

immediately: scoping. what is process for having areas finalized. (tags?) question: for each area, who is architect or acting architect? define areas such that gaps are obvious.
 * prioritization exercise -- use the clusters, have more sensible clustering. Have areas.

[ask Roan about process of becoming architect]

architecture guidelines out of draft form by April 15? no


 * personal goal by April 15: feel like I've improved as MW developer

TODO: Sumana to suggest an ECT/VDC budget for 2014-2015

Reminder: Sumana at Code4Lib in March and PyCon in April

Sumana just read _Switch_ by the Heath brothers