Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/Collaboration

This is the session pad for the Collaboration working area (T119030), main topic Make code review not suck (T114419) slated to begin at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, January 5.

Purpose
T119030 - Working area overview: "Central problem: how do we scale editing our code up to populations similar to editing our projects, proportionally increasing our positive impact and productivity?

Main session focus:

T114419- Make code review not suck

There is enough evidence that our code review process causes frustration. How bad a problem is this? Beyond the visible symptoms, what are the root causes of the long backlogs? Which are the potential solutions worth exploring? In particular, how can we re-arrange social conventions to make Code Review run better. While solving the problem in this session is a non-goal, having people leave the meeting feeling that one day we will have solved the problem - is a goal.

Agenda

 * 10 minutes: session introduction
 * 25 Minutes: Discussion of root problems of frustration. Or if there even is frustration
 * 30 Minutes: Discussion of potential solutions to problems
 * 15 minutes: Conclusion. How do people feel about what's been discussed. Reflections on stuff discussed. Are there solutions that specificly excite people. Next steps.

Etherpad
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T114419

Goals
''Please prepopulate this section with the goals of the meeting, and anticipate that collaborative editing around fulfillment of goals. This is a great place to capture action items from the conversation.''
 * We have a better idea about the root causes of the problem
 * We have a number of ideas about how to fix the problem
 * [A somewhat meta goal] People feel hope that the situation will improve

Chronology
''This section is where an attempt is made to capture the gist of who said what, in what order. A transcript isn't necessary, but it's useful to capture the important points made by speakers as they happen.''