Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-07-16

Followup from quarterly review
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review http://etherpad.wmflabs.org/pad/p/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review Communications of feature teams out to community - ones that don't have liaisons may not do as much Action item: Ken and Andre to continue conversation, have a meeting/chat in August -- Andre to push on this re BZ/rt Action item: Sumana to think about ECT communications for activities that don't have dedicated liaisons & talk with eng directors about, e.g., Analytics Action item: Sumana to consolidate & prioritize upstreams lists
 * felt a little rushed - think about 75 or 90 minutes in future
 * Greg maybe should be in more quarterly reviews generally
 * Try to get Alolita
 * less so Antoine

Wikimania prep
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Transparency_and_collaboration_in_Wikimedia_engineering Andre, Quim, & Sumana

"internal" (Wikimedia) "external" (other organizations) (Sumana)
 * Day-to-day: Andre/Quim
 * Coordination of Wikitech-ambassadors, Weekly tech news, Signpost and other initiatives encouraging information and collaboration beteen Wikimedia tech contributors and editors. - Quim
 * Bug reporting - Andre
 * Long-term:
 * Helping you shape developers' priorities, with bug triage and product development opportunities. - Sumana
 * Monthly engineering report - Sumana
 * Work on news and activities with an impact in mainstream tech media, thus  raising the awareness among potential contributors at large.
 * Collaboration with established organizations & upstreams: many active groups out   there have an interest in making technical contributions to Wikipedia.

Andre, Quim, & Sumana to basically cover these points, divide them up, and one of us do an intro. will fill 15 minutes + 10 min Q&A

Upcoming changes/dates
Other conference deadlines:
 * Guillaume off on Thursday. possibly a couple days off in August/September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * July Wed31-August Mon05: GNOME GUADEC (Brno/CZ)
 * August Wed07-August Mon12: Wikimania (Hongkong/PRC)
 * October Fri04-Sun06: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * July 16th: all-day meeting
 * Quim flying to Germany this weekend, will work from there until Wikimania, except
 * Quim on holidays July 24-31. Then flying to Hong Kong on Aug 2.
 * Željko:
 * July: some unavailability
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"
 * possible longish vacation in Octobe
 * LCA : July 20th http://linux.conf.au/media/news/1
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion

VisualEditor
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000316.html - updated schedule
 * Guillaume working on VE through most of August.

Misc updates
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/23/pywikipediabot-moving-to-git-on-july-26/ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Volunteer_coordination_and_outreach/ECT_July_2013_quarterly_review#Next_quarter_goals Rachel? Who is backup? QA documentation improvement: Action item: Rachel to file bug asking to make it impossible to change email address wrong way with dev account Misc: Chris's HotCat test https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74075/4/features/hotcat.feature
 * Andre has discussed stuff with them on 1 talk page - move to Git first, then move bug trackers into BZ
 * Action item: Sumana to consolidate & prioritize lists of upstreams
 * figuring out how to change your email address in Gerrit
 * changed it the wrong way in Gerrit, then a week later, couldn't log back in
 * LDAP problem
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developers/Maintainers
 * on a larger page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_hub
 * global search http://hexm.de/mw-search
 * or use the dropdown in https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?search=&button=&title=Special%3ASearch to choose "Wikimedia Technical CSE"
 * open question on the QA list from Rachel - how to proceed? Thanks for her bug reports! :)
 * Chris will update obsolete docs especially on browser test automation - consolidating - by August 2nd

Andre updates
Ken Jared & Howie BZ upstream GUADEC absence
 * Andre sent Ken a note summarizing positions re Ops bug workflow
 * Andre is making the workflow work for them
 * Andre, a UX example from Mobile: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51204
 * will have a delegate

Wikimania
Rachel- vacation Aug 5-9 Other conference deadlines:
 * Guillaume: possibly a couple days off in August/September; will provide tentative dates as soon as they're known
 * Andre:
 * July Wed31-August Mon05: GNOME GUADEC (Brno/CZ)
 * August Wed07-August Mon12: Wikimania (Hongkong/PRC)
 * October Fri04-Sun06: Mozilla Summit 2013
 * Sumana
 * Quim in Germany until Wikimania, except
 * Quim on holidays July 24-31. Then flying to Hong Kong on Aug 2.
 * Željko:
 * vacation late July - early August
 * August 16, eurucamp/JRubyConf EU Workshop, Berlin, Germany
 * September 6-7, BalCCon, Novi Sad, Serbia
 * September 27-28, CITCON, Turin, Italy
 * November 7, SQA Days, Lviv, Ukraine
 * Chris:
 * Aug 4-10 Agile2013 - "radically open software testing"
 * possible days off in October
 * FOSDEM - with Siebrand, Quim is chasing FOSDEM people :) - as soon as there is a call for devrooms/booths Quim will start discussion