Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-06-19

Attending: Sumana, 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
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Wikimania
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics
 * HR feedback

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: significant AFT deployment today. Try to book some of Fabrices time to talk about testing EE and whether to do that in Labs, since other avenues haven't been fruitful. Got the QA Engineer interview process unstuck, monitoring that. One phone interview yesterday and one more later this week.

Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania prep RobLa: Recruiting/hiring, 1.20 deployment Sumana: Volunteer recruiting and encouragement (including GSoC), hackathons and events/conferences in general, Gerrit project ownership, Developer access, 20% time wrangling, HR feedback Claudia: Dev community metrics

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

(AFT and hopefully EE also - PageTriage)

Community testing planning
OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? (Sometime this week would be good)

Note: bug triage on issues reported from Openhatch event this afternoon. Will be in #wikimedia-dev right after the AFT deployment 1pm Pacific, 30 min?
 * TODO: Chris to email OpenHatch lists

Parveen working on training

20% time wrangling
Sumana - concentrating on backlogged extensions + code review (including patches)

Wikimedia blog maintenance
still on hold

Training documentation
somewhat updated more in early July

Monthly report
the May report was eventually published last week Next week the fun resumes for the June report...

Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on requests, blog post reviews, etc.

Engineering activity documentation
Guillaume followed up with Rob Moen's (and wikitech-l) about his assessment JS tool for wikitech.wm.o

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator

got contract help for Wikimania hackathon!

http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ

Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review. Tech and panel interviews in progress for four candidates.

Wikimania

 * deprioritized last week
 * Guillaume: presentation prep on hold for the last 2 weeks, resumed this week

Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep

Conferences in general
Sumana to continue writing OSBridge keynote

Chris considering CFP for Rocky Mountain Ruby re: starting a browser automation project for WMF. will talk to Rob about it tomorrow.

SMWCon

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.

GSoC
Sumana need to continue

UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem
 * TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email

Dev community metrics
- Mark & Chris successfully talked to Claudia :) - setting up R<>BugzillaAPI connection - collecting information to Bugzilla Management (setting up the "wall") - analyzing the development of patch submissions over the last years

Misc

 * Sumana in SF June 20-24, then Portland last week of June