Engineering Community Team/Planning/2014/03

February 2014

Engineering Community Team — Monthly planning, March 2014

April 2014

March 2014

Sumana

• RFC-writing/editing/coordination:
  • run four RFC meetings Status:    Done
  • Architecture Summit followup email, part II Status:    Not done
  • draft new performance guidelines Status:    Not done
  • draft outline of revised Architecture guidelines Status:    Not done
• Assist newcomers in GSoC/OPW Status:    Done

Guillaume

• Assemble and publish the engineering report for February. Status:    Done
• Follow up on support requests (e.g. blog post reviews). Status:    Done
• Get the weekly tech newsletter assembled, published, translated and delivered (with help). Status:    Done
• Continue to advertise Tech/News through social media, on-wiki social tools to increase readership. Status:    Done
• (Continued from February) Edit and publish the best discovery reports on the Wikimedia tech blog. Status:    Done
• (With Andre) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review Status:    Done
• (With Andre) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Started, continued in April

Quim

• Google Summer of Code 2014 and FOSS Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 projects almost decided -- Status:    Done
• complete FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7 and publish blog post -- Status:    Done
  • co-mentor OPW project mediawiki.org homepage redesign and push it to get community approval -- Status:    Done
• coordinate Facebook Open Academy -- Status:    Not done
  • co-mentor the OpenBadges project -- Status:    Not done
• Google Code-In blog post (moved from January) -- Status:    Not done
• complete Community metrics#Key performance indicators (Bitergia) (moved from November) -- Status:    Done (Desc / help strings need to be improved)
• list of WMF Engineering employees with travel approval for Wikimania 2014 -- Status:    Done
• draft strategy aligning Developer_hub and Data & Developer Hub -- Status:    In progress
• First draft of the Index of Key Upstream projects -- Status:    Done
• Events/FOSDEM/2014 analyzed, and reported via blog post -- Status:    Not done
• Zürich Hackathon 2014 scholarships decided, definition of the schedule started -- Status:    Done

Andre

• (With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review (based on Project management tools/Review/Requirements), take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status:    In progress
• (With Guillaume) Have an IRC office hour about Project management tools Status:    Done on 2014-03-28
• (With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status:    Not done -- postponed to April
• (With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs based on Google Code-In experience; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week":
  • Kill curated list on the wikipage; provide specific Bugzilla queries and "getting started" instructions for each area: Status:    Done on 2014-03-07 (diff)
  • Introduce "Bug of the week" after talking to teams? Status:    Not done - postponed to Q2/2014
• Better Bugzilla taxonomy: Discuss using classifications in Bugzilla and identify some initial non-controversial changes. - bugzilla:38990. Status:    In progress; first smaller cleanup steps about "Tools" and deprecated stuff are bugzilla:57738, bugzilla:54063, bugzilla:53986#c15, bugzilla:55351#c4, bugzilla:62386, bugzilla:62384; Proposal to use Bugzilla classifications on 2014-03-10
• Bugzilla setup / code:
  • Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress: (porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4) -- might get postponed to Q2/2014
  • Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do
  • Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins - bugzilla:37105. Status:    Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. Porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4 -- postponed to Q2/2014