Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2012-05-01
Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012
Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects[edit]
- 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)[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Sumana
1.19 tarball[edit]
(nothing from us this week)
1.20 deployment[edit]
Have preliminary Release Notes, Feature Test Charters, to be finalized today, hopefully after fixing Special:Version
Git and Gerrit migration[edit]
- Sumana to try to get Chad to take on reorg, use G as resource to restructure pages/info
Bugzilla application management[edit]
Git integration?
Wikimedia blog maintenance[edit]
on hold this week
Training documentation[edit]
Contractor to work on ResourceLoader/Gadgets 2.0 docs, Git docs, security training docs, Lua stuff
Monthly report[edit]
Guillaume sprinting on this this week
Communications support[edit]
on hold this week
Engineering activity documentation[edit]
pages updated while putting together the monthly report
Recruiting/hiring[edit]
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)[edit]
Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships
Conferences in general[edit]
Gerrit project owner groups[edit]
Sumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement[edit]
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana & Mark continuing to do this.
Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people
GSoC[edit]
Mentors mentoring community bonding period
UCOSP[edit]
- TODO: Sumana: End of term -- need to run quick postmortem
Dev community metrics[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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.