User:Sharihareswara (WMF)/TODO

Sumana Harihareswara's TODO list General, braindump, somewhat prioritized, necessarily incomplete.

Continuing

 * Get update from parser team and publicize their efforts
 * Continue following up with potential volunteers
 * Every Monday, help Mark prep for bug triages, set work priorities
 * 1:1, bug triage meeting, TL;DR meeting, platform engineering meeting, commit access queue meeting
 * NOLA hackathon followup
 * a ton of follow-up to do: notes, report for wikitech-l, blog entry, communicate w/ larger community, and volunteers/external people (Microsoft, GSoC).
 * GSoC wrapup
 * Push on merges

New/one-time

 * Reach out to database developers to plan date for database triage.
 * Talk offline with Mark about patch management.
 * Send email to wikitech-l about commit access process, per notes from last week's Tim/Chad/Aaron conversation.
 * Talk with Alolita & Siebrand about India hackathon (work with Siebrand on invite request processing).
 * Coordinate with Rob on blog entry writing
 * Start keeping more systematic track of incoming contributors.
 * Look into Bugzilla management ops stuff, consult with RobLa.
 * Discuss testing community stuff with Mark & Ashar (testing mailing list? meetings?)
 * Create specs for community metrics needs... to gather baseline metrics about volunteer base & corporate MediaWiki usage/contributions
 * http://fastwonderblog.com/2011/06/22/open-source-community-metrics/
 * Sumana to identify available devs
 * Sumana: developing CRM-ish solution for devs
 * Ask Roan whether it is possible to filter the mediawiki.org code review stuff by reviewer.

Soon

 * Investigate contributor agreement/ToS
 * reach out to http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org -- they should upgrade to 1.17.0
 * find out if http://wiki.ubc.ca/Help:Widgets/SlideShare http://www.mediawikiwidgets.org/Widget:SlideShare is good with the new HTML5 magic
 * Chase IRC cloak
 * Send out hackathon metrics thoughts?
 * gather & publicize Platform Eng meeting notes
 * gather & publicize notes from MW core team meeting
 * find developers who have been reverted most (proportionally) recently, talk with them about improving
 * re pywikipediabot commit access: write a guide - explain how to get it; document on meta, link to from mediawiki.org
 * get http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Special:Version to upgrade to 1.17.0
 * ask http://wiki.ubc.ca/Special:Version about their extensions
 * Talk with Dario re followup from Data Summit
 * Work with Mark Hershberger (and the rest of the Development Community group) to improve bug triage and reduce the unreviewed commit backlog -- important
 * help fundraising team liaise with Wikimedia, Drupal, CiviCRM, etc. communities
 * Consider .deb issues, getting volunteer packagers to fix
 * write MarkH a note for him to post to Debian pkgers list re hiphop
 * remind him to file an intent to package bug -- or rather request for a package
 * also Mark knows Red Hat packager dude now at Mozilla

Recruit

 * Sumana to document best practices for aiding enthusiastic general & specifically driven volunteers
 * find PhotoCommons testers and users, & suggest people port it to other CMSes
 * find WikiLove localizers
 * find Narayam testers
 * find HipHop packagers
 * find someone to shepherd Josh's page-by-page-auth extension
 * reach out to http://wikiindex.org/User:Gwsuperfan
 * HipHop: Sumana will target Fedora and Ubuntu for recruiting packagers, maybe CentOS (RPMs anyway)
 * (Sumana to help get contributors to package HipHop for different *n*x distros, to make it easier to work with)
 * testers for MediaWiki OpenID extension
 * reach out to http://phpsp.org.br/
 * More on Chad's global config RfC
 * redlink off WMF GenEng page
 * recruit volunteers to work on this
 * Get into gadgets/user scripts community
 * Get into extensions community
 * Get into toolservers community
 * Get into templates community

Longer-term

 * Build awareness of our Great Movement Projects & Strategic Opportunities in the existing volunteer development community and in new & returning volunteers -- important
 * Goal for the TL;DR team - not just about increasing contribution, also aligning community around our goals.
 * Sumana to author post(s) about priorities from whitepaper (help from Guillaume), to reach out to tech communities, encourage volunteers
 * get Debian/Ubuntu pkg of MediaWiki onto 1.17 - low priority.
 * Get toolserver account to make, host tools to gather & display stats re SVN & bugzilla
 * Get in-person MediaWiki ramp-up help from engineers, and synthesize that into training documents for future installfests
 * find PHP students/kids to encourage into MediaWiki at schools
 * help them with travel to hackathons & invite them
 * Build my knowledge of conferences, distribution channels, and other means by which we can find potential volunteers, and running pilot events as seems feasible.
 * http://www.catchafire.org/org_home
 * try to get pro bono security pentesting? maybe from Matasano or a similar firm
 * Consider PCF, Mozilla, GNOME, etc for QA infrastructure idea -- mailing list, etc.
 * think, and soon, about community/contributor guidelines, both behavioral & coding
 * Check how Mozilla & Canonical do Agile, + Launchpad, OpenStack & other open source Agile projects
 * investigate Mozilla (they started requiring tests a few years ago) on how they get volunteers to write tests
 * shell bugs: Communication plan. E.g. foundation-l, & think about longterm messaging for all admins, for notifications, & translations.
 * watch out for shell bug process & organize volunteer sprints
 * get Claudia the data about current situation. What kind of people develop the software today?
 * analysis of committers, what characteristics they have. She has a bunch of scripts in Java and we are encouraging her to share them with us.
 * specify the features. What's possible?  Ohloh.....
 * check out http://sonivis.org/
 * http://worldvista.org/conference_presentations/21st_VCM_GMU/CMU%20presentation.pdf/view
 * http://conway.isri.cmu.edu/%7Ejdh/web-pubs/pdfs/vista_report_2010_final-formatted.pdf
 * chase deployment privilege separation
 * travel plans -- submit proposals
 * Ramp up on my technical knowledge of MediaWiki

Recruit

 * look at getting volunteers to help Siebrand re WikiBhasha - removing cruft, adding support for Google MT
 * look at getting ideas, testing re hackpad as editor
 * look into code review mentorship program
 * ask ops to contribute upstream their custom hacks to OTRS
 * look up Dmitriy Sintsov,, the evil IP address, Banaticus & Billinghurst re: music sheets plugin
 * documentation: per RobLa's suggestion:
 * I would suggest is that we potentially recruit people who work on the more technical parts of enwiki, rather than just focusing on people who are already on mediawiki.org. Maybe start at "Village Pump (technical)" and then also see what editors are active on things like template help pages and other scarier parts of the system.


 * and Zak's plan: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zakgreant/Tech_Docs_Plan_(2011-01/P6M)
 * recruit user Pinky, MattJ, & Lhridley