Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-05-01

Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

 * Testing infrastructure/automation
 * Feature testing efforts
 * 20% time wrangling
 * 1.19 tarball
 * 1.20 deployment
 * Git and Gerrit migration
 * Bugzilla application management
 * Wikimedia blog maintenance
 * Training documentation
 * Monthly report
 * Communications support
 * Engineering activity documentation
 * Recruiting/hiring
 * Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
 * Conferences in general
 * Gerrit project owner groups
 * Recruitment/encouragement
 * GSOC
 * UCOSP
 * Dev community metrics

Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: Highest priority: Feature Test Charters for Weekend Testing May 5, Testing infrastructure/automation, feature testing efforts, 1.20 testing, SF visit for test env. Mark: 1.20 Deployment support, bug triage, BZ application management, volunteer recruitment/encouragement (bug squad) Guillaume: monthly report 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 Claudia: analysis bug database (esp. patch submissions), checking data validity

Testing infrastructure/automation
Working on Labs - top priority for Chris. Visiting SF May 7-12 to work on Labs as test env.

Blog post?

Blog post forthcoming from SF next week perhaps?

Feature testing efforts
TimedMediaHandler, Editor Engagement (AFTv5)

Tauhida?

Labs problems with TMH

would like to do a testing project with OpenHatch for AFT, replied to email -early June, AFT testing, OH Chris in charge of this

20% time wrangling
Sumana

1.19 tarball
(nothing from us this week)

1.20 deployment
Have preliminary Release Notes, Feature Test Charters, to be finalized today, hopefully after fixing Special:Version

Git and Gerrit migration

 * Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info

Bugzilla application management
Git integration?

Wikimedia blog maintenance
on hold this week

Training documentation
Contractor to work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff

Monthly report
Guillaume sprinting on this this week

Communications support
on hold this week

Engineering activity documentation
pages updated while putting together the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, contract help for tutorials

QA Engineer position should go public RSN

Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly

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

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC
Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

 * TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem

Dev community metrics
- working on checking the validity of the bug database (created from data provided by Mark) - still differences in result set from database and the bugzilla api, a lot of preparation stuff such as setting up postgresConnection in R - papers collected and partially reviewed but not documented yet - to summarize: did a lot of useful but not very successful (showable) stuff - hope there will be better/more news next week

Misc

 * Chris - Might be in SF week of May 7 for heavy Labs work.
 * Guillaume: tentative vacation 16-18 May
 * Memorial Day is on Monday, May 28, 2012.