Developer Relations/Weekly summary

We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by Developer Relations: technical documentation, events, and community. See Phab:T114224.

2015-10-15

 * Timo Tijhof (WMF) has joined the Architecture Committee. (announcement)
 * (Summit travel sponsorship decisions)
 * Is there a repository of Wikimedia tools, research projects etc? The answer is between No and Lots. (discussion)
 * A canonical location for metrics documentation? Meta, mediawiki.org, Wikitech? (discussion)
 * Histography.io draws historical events from Wikipedia and self-updates daily with new recorded events. (about - source)

2015-10-08

 * By the call for participation deadline on October 2, the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 had
 * 52 session proposals presented
 * 129 people registered, from which 17 request travel sponsorship.
 * Outreachy round 11 is here. Tony Thomas is the new org admin, and Niharika Kohli is secondary org admin in this round. (T112267)
 * 5 project ideas featured, 18 missing mentors, 34 need discussion. You can help at Possible-Tech-Projects workboard. (T112620)
 * Code of Conduct draft: the second round of feedback for the first sections ended with mixed results. The open discussions will continue in a new round.
 * There is a new process to mark inactive software projects, aimed to highlight stalled repositories without code reviewers or maintainers. (T102920)
 * Creating tasks to clean the code review queue of slow repositories? The first task goes for analytics/wikistats. (T113695)
 * Google has released a set of Freebase to Wikidata mapping tools thanks to an internship with Tpt. (announcement)

Metrics

 * Code repositories with slowest code review:
 * Wikistats: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695)
 * Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer: 463 days, 4 changesets.
 * EducationProgram: 459 days, 2 changesets.
 * BookManagerv2: 443 days, 21 changesets.
 * BayesianFilter: 386 days, 1 changeset.

Jul-Sep 2015
Tech community metrics presented at the Community Engagement quarterly review:

Code review
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.2 days (-21.3% Quarter on Quarter, -21.1% Year over Year)
 * Median age of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 67.2 days (-19.5% QoQ, 51.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1075 (0.8% QoQ, 2.6% YoY)
 * Number of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 192 (-14.2% QoQ, -35.1% YoY)
 * Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3639 (10.9% QoQ, 21.7% YoY)
 * Number of code uploaders per month: 205 (-0.2% QoQ, 0.5% YoY)
 * Number of code reviewers per month: 189 (0.5% QoQ, 4.4% YoY)
 * Number of code committers per month: 128 (-3.0% QoQ, 13.2% YoY)

Phabricator
 * 863 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator during September, our highest number so far.
 * 363 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator, keeping a growing trend.