Engineering Community Team/November 2013 Quarterly Review

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Bug management

 * New guided Bugzilla bug report entry form for Bugzilla newcomers (36762)
 * "Inline History" displays bug report field changes (priority etc.) in-between comments (47256)
 * Small enhancements: "Show other bug reports in component" link (46413), longer product names in buglists (40244), ...
 * BZ tricks & best practices blog series (see Bug management)

Technical communications
Focus on VisualEditor community change in July−August:
 * Creation of translatable documentation and how-tos, like Help:VisualEditor/User guide, Help:TemplateData, Help:Screenshots
 * Coordination of communications (e.g. announcements)
 * Direct liaising with the French Wikipedia: responding to feedback, reporting bugs, etc.

Perennial activities:
 * 9 technical blog posts reviewed and published;
 * 3 monthly engineering reports assembled and published;
 * 7 editions of the tech newsletter published, translated into about 12 languages every week and globally delivered across wikis



Mentorship programs

 * 18 out of the 20 Google Summer of Code projects passed the program evaluation, as well as the one Outreach Program for Women project (announcement - OPW blog post)
 * 36 mentors involved from beginning to end.
 * Status of each GSoC project can be found at Summer of Code Past Projects.

Volunteer coordination and outreach

 * Introducing a dashboard (alpha) for tech community metrics: Git/Gerrit, Bugzilla, MediaWiki, Mailman, and IRC.
 * Five key performance indicators agreed: Who contributes code, Gerrit review queue, Code contributors new / gone, Bugzilla response time, and Top overall contributors.
 * Key Wikimedia software projects defined as baseline for metrics.
 * Events:
 * Facilitated Browser Testing Automation workshop with Cucumber and Epic fail: figuring out Selenium test results
 * Team presentation at Wikimania: Transparency and collaboration in Wikimedia engineering
 * Wiki devroom proposal for FOSDEM 2014 accepted, prepared in collaboration with XWiki and Tiki.
 * Support in the organization of the MediaWiki Architecture Summit 2014.

Planning
See Engineering Community Team/Meetings.