Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-02

Misc reminders

 * Reminder of Wikimedia technical search tool http://hexm.de/mw-search
 * There's a way to enable this in your preferences as search in mediawiki.org
 * today's skins triage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130402
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March

Mentorship

 * Still can make it as GSOC/OPW project idea:
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Improve_the_mediawiki-bugzilla_extension_to_a_deployable_level (Mozilla + Andre?)
 * I am happy to provide support but I don't see myself suddenly as a coder or reviewer. :) -- andre
 * Still can make it as OPW specific project ideas:
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Browser_Test_Automation (Željko)
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#A_proper_catalog_of_extensions (Yuri Katkov)
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Multilingual.2C_usable_and_effective_captchas (research only?)
 * http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#System_documentation_integrated_in_source_code (does Platform want research on this? mentor?)
 * Also thinking of revamping http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub and main related pages. Mentor: could be Quim.
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_developer_hub

Amsterdam hackathon prep

 * Anything to do?
 * Outreach for more signups by 20 April?
 * WMF sprints/trainings?
 * Quim & Sumana to think about performance & Lua stuff with Rachel

High-priority escalations?
There are 3 that Andre has considered important in the last few days. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46428,46401,46612 this weekend, we had 3 outages, and we need to improve communication around outages, Andre says. 2 of 3 were jobqueue-related.
 * bug 46428 - memcache split, blocks several other items
 * 46401, patch awaiting review
 * the http 500 error bugs
 * Rob to check out these escalations
 * where were they documented?
 * Etherpad for TechOps meeting yesterday, and short ops mailing list thread
 * * Recent Outages
 * ** 2013-03-28, Thursday - 19:40-19:43 GMT
 * ** 2013-03-29, Friday 05:00 GMT
 * ** 2013-03-31, Sunday - 21.20 GMT
 * *** LVS - fix kernel leak / upgrade kernel ?


 * Asher put in a jobqueue limit queue


 * RobLa to ask Greg to follow up

Vacations/holidays
me Andre: Texas Linux Fest: deadline April 1st - http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/, Valerie! Željko: Chris:
 * Sumana part of tomorrow + part of Thursday
 * Guillaume out this week
 * a few days around Amsterdam (May 24th)
 * maybe Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, June 18–21, 2013
 * maybe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_contribute/Presentation ?
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/FOSDEM/2013_-_Lightning_-_Qgil
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
 * Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)
 * Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
 * May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
 * May 13-17 relocating, details TBD
 * May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)