Wikimedia Quality and Test Engineering Team/Meetings/2021

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2021-12-01[edit]

Attendance:

- Topics -


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things


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2021-11-17[edit]

Attendance: Rummana, Zeljko, Dom, Monte, Elena, Anthony, Derrick, JR, Ima, Edward, Esther

- Topics -

  • Task triage
  • This ended up taking the entire meeting (plus some).  
  • Good discussions around how different teams manage their workflow and the practical implementation of sharing workload across QTE.  
  • Feature Showcase
  • ET: GrowthExperiments - Structured tasks: Add links and Add image (moving to next meeting)

- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Refactoring page and file deletion/undeletion
  • Fixing bugs in Special:Preferences and Special:GlobalPreferences
  • Work continues on IPInfo - it now works on Special:RecentChanges
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Testing page and file deletion might be a lot of work - although I feel well prepared to test it
  • Testing Special:Preferences/Special:GlobalPreferences is a time-sink due to number of pre-existing bugs and unpredictable UI behaviour
  • I think managable between Ima and me
  • Other interesting things
  • Went to Bletchley Park on Sunday, one of my favourite places in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park (Ž: looks very interesing!) (D: It is! As well as the national museum of computing which is next door)
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: Add image is scheduled to be deployed next week
  • SD team: MediaSearch refactoring caused varios issues-both betalabs & production require additional testing.
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Growth team: filed 16 bugs in two weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Growth team - an acute QA work overload :)
  • Other interesting things
  • Teaching math is very rewarding.
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Job postings
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Internship: we've selected the intern, announced on Monday 2021-11-22
  • T293817 Perfect Software -- And Other Illusions about Testing - read 16/18 chapters, book club meeting on Monday 2021-11-29
  • Other interesting things
  • Fixed garage door over the weekend. 🛠 Photos and videos in #engineering-productivity-team
  • Had two minor accidends this week while riding bike to work. 🚴‍♀️ (It's only Wednesday.)


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2021-11-03[edit]

Attendance: Ima, Esther, JR, Dom, Monte, Pita, Anthony, Derrick, Elena, Rummana, Edward


- Topics -

  • Triage Tool/Process

- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notifications on iOS this time around
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Released updated version of android app
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Looks fine
  • Other interesting things
  • Breaking Points Podcast is my new favorite. Non-partisan, populist US news mostly covering politics. Check it out
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed  No Help Needed
  • T292555: Dismiss survey behaviour after a user answers to a survey.
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Global Preferences bug fixes
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Medium
  • Other interesting things
  • I have been documenting more of my test strategies and testing sessions. I have received positive feedback from my teams. One developer has even raised bugs (unprompted) after reading one of my testing sessions.
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Still wrapping up Sticky Header tasks
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Sticky Header
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Current is a bit high, but should slow down soon
  • Other interesting things
  • TOC is next.  I'm looking forward to what the Web Team builds.
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: Add image
  • SD team: refactoring MediaSearch code
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • the load is high - but the deployment for Add image will be in dark mode first and then very gradually deployed to selected wikis, so it should be fine.
  • Other interesting things
  • I really enjoy reading "Perfect software" book
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Onboarding with Pita to support his team durimg his vacation period
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • More work on DDD
  • Worked on simplifying Mediawiki docker bits - experimenting with adding shortcuts to a Makefile for spinning up an instance from scratch
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • new preview wordpress plugin version published last week
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • section translation keeps having issues publishing in production without any code changes
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • no, hand off for vacation being handed to Elena and Ima
  • Other interesting things
  • doc that Elena mentioned with all the info from both Inuka and language teams
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things


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2021-10-20[edit]

Attendance:


- Topics -


* Project/Feature Showcase -

  • * Pita showcases the wikistories prototype
  • * Led to discussion about prototyping
  • * Proof of concept/experimental prototyping
  • * Design prototyping
  • - QTE reading club
  •   - T265635 Schools of Software Testing - the first QTE reading club meeting!

      - T293817 Perfect Software -- And Other Illusions about Testing - 2021-11-24


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks:
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed: No
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Refactoring page deletion code
  • Changes to diffs
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Medium-high
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Wrapping up sticky header
  • Team has started work on Table of Contents
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Nothing out of the ordinary.
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Should be dying down.  Plan on focussing on Selenium.
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • looks fine
  • Other interesting things
  • went to a meeting (SD & Inuka teams) on wikistories - the project looks really interesting
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Starting work with recruiters for new QTE hires.  
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Switched task metrics dashboard over to use new Jinja templates bits Mukunda added
  • Other interesting things
  • The aformentioned templating bits are a neat addition to the Datasette-Dashboards extension to Datasette... extending extensions haha
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T265635 Schools of Software Testing - the first QTE reading club meeting!
  • Internships - a few applicants for both projects, so far, so good
  • T256626 Refactor WebdriverIO tests from sync to async mode
  • T256239 Create MediaWiki-Docker documentation for all repositories with Selenium tests
  • T293817 Perfect Software -- And Other Illusions about Testing - 2021-11-24
  • Other interesting things


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2021-10-06[edit]

Attendance: Greg, Rummana, Elena, Edward, Ima, Derrick, Pita, Anthony, Esther, Monte, Željko


- Topics -


Top three ERC (effective and responsible communication) recommendations.


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • New release on Android just finished testing
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Found a regression with talk page message notifications pointing to the incorrect notifications. Now fixed
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Looking pretty good
  • Other interesting things
  • Going on a short vacation next week!
  • Derrick
  • Team is in beginning stages of a new project involving Quick Surveys
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Sticky Header
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Validated all is well in wikitown in iOS15
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Current workload is steady
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: Homepage on *all* wikis; Mentor dashboard; testing sticky header for Suggestion mode
  • Structured Data team: testing improvements to MediaSearch (including wikidata synonyms, non-stemming languages support, exclusion search terms).
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Looks fine
  • Other interesting things
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • IP masking, Diff Copy/Paste, XSS attack on WS  Export, SecurePoll archive feature
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • none
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Staying afloat
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • I have been talking with Toby, Grace, and other folks in Product about Tech Debt (per their request). This week we also spoke to Corey, Tajh, and Carol on the topic. I have agreed to pull together a proposal for how to move forward addressing Tech Debt.  
  • I have spoken with Greg about getting us engaged with the K8s migration discussion.  There's a weekly meeting that I've asked to have us invited to, at least initially.  I've provided Dom and Esther as key contacts. As we figure more out, we'll have a broader discussion within the team to determine how we want to be engaged.  
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • First pass at task metrics merged into 'ddd' library (after much churn) CORRECTION: I was mistaken - I thought it was merged but it's going to wait until the templating changes below are done
  • Starting on second pass which uses new Jinja templating bits which Mukunda implemented on top of the 'datasette-dashboard' library - first pass did some shoe-horning which this will fix
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • wordpress preview plugin
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • kaios meltdown due to lets encrypt
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • all good, new project incoming , not sure about work load
  • Other interesting things
  • stories A-LA-INSTAGRAM for wikipedia in the works from the INUKA team
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Manageable
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • 2 internships proposed with Soham, we will mentor 1 intern
  • T256239 Create MediaWiki-Docker documentation for all repositories with Selenium tests
  • T256626 Investigate WebdriverIO async mode
  • Coming soon
  • T247665 QTE reading club
  • In progress
  • T291145 FATAL ERROR: CALL_AND_RETRY_LAST Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to v7 in all repositories
  • T283597 Update wdio-mediawiki to 1.1.1 in all repositories
  • T284165 Create the first VisualEditor Selenium test
  • Other interesting things
  • Getting used to working from an office.
  • 1st place (split) on a local online chess club tournament ♟.

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2021-09-22[edit]

Attendance:


- Topics -

  • MediaWiki K8s Migration risks
  • Željko: MediaWiki doesn't have a good way to manage dependencies and configuration (as far as I know)
  • Talk to RelEng (Antoine?) and Platform.
  • Dom:  Need to better understand K8s so that we can determine risk.
  • Should perhaps have someone from QTE learn more about K8s.  
  • JR to create open meeting for further discussion
  • Zeljko:  Need to also understand MediaWiki


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notifications and talk page testing on Android and iOS
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Android update with lots of features around notifications and talk pages
  • iOS release supporting iOS 15
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Pretty normal workload
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Team is in beginning stages of a new project involving Quick Surveys
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • CommTech is spinning up several projects in parallel - lots of learning to do
  • Other interesting things
  • JR, Tyler and I have been discussing the beta environment
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Sticky Header, iOS15
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Lots of regressions and sticky header stuff, iOS15
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Should be tapering, will be ramping up selenium
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Mentor dashboard deployed (Growth team)
  • Refining MediaSearch (small screens, lang specific searches, usability of searches)
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Seems to be fine
  • Other interesting things
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Visual Editor regression tests
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • None at this time
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • We are embarking on new projects, will be ramping up soon
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Toby has kicked off an effort to address Technical Debt in Product.  
  • Series of meetings have been occuring with a couple more scheduled for next week.  
  • Approach is to:
  • Define what "Technical Debt" is, so that we are all mean the same thing.
  • Figure out how to prioritize the backlog of work
  • Figure out how to get that work done
  • Figure out how to make decisions about taking on Tech Debt in the future.
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Working with Mukunda to use new `ddd` library bits (big diff landed yesterday) for graphing task metrics - regular meeting cadence now twice a week
  • Digesting another Vue tutorial
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Wiki stories - design phase
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Back from vacay, catching up with stuff.
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Unbreak Now!
  • In progress
  • Possible internships
  • Other interesting things
  • I have finally dual booted both of my machines (imac and air) with macos and ubuntu.
  • Working from an office after 16 years of working from home.
  • 2021-09-27 Nova Runda craft brewery virtual tour!

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2021-09-08[edit]

  • Attendance: Monte, Elena, Zeljko, Derrick, Dom, Anthony, JR, Greg, Ima, Edward, Esther


- Topics -

  • Greg: ERC Discussion (top 3 selection)
  • Triage Tool/Process (most likely won't have time for this)


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Testing: Secure Poll, IP Info, Disambiguration pages, OCR, Visual Editing
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Low. I am having 13-17th off.
  • Other interesting things
  • Elections were successful.
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Testing Special:MentorDashboard features
  • Growth scaling project - deployment to 10 more wikis
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • couple of phab tasks on XSS vulnerabilities
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • the workload is quite normal
  • Other interesting things
  • started to read "I Could Do Anything if I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It" - quite a catchy title
  • Esther
  • VisualEditor regression tests.
  • Worked with Zeljko on T284165. More like learned from Zeljko how to go about Creating a first VisualEditor Selenium test
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Worked on disimbugation Pages, OCR, XSS, Comparison Diff, and IP masking
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Able to mange workload, no help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Data^3 has made good progress in pulling data out of phabricator and visualizing it.  The goal is to be able to report out 1-2 key metrics by the end of the Quarter.  I'm hoping to have Defect Escapes as one of them.  
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom, Tyler, and I are meeting to discuss Beta Cluster current state.  Goal is to create a PoR (plan of record) for Beta Cluster this quarter.  
  • Campains Developement being formed, Monte participating in the SWE interviews.
  • Participated in Product Engineering Leads meeting last week irt Technical Debt.  
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Interviewed software engineer candidate yesterday, submitted scorecard
  • Progress on task dashboard using Datasette-Dashboard plug-in
  • Other interesting things
  • Roommates made coffee ice cream
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Spent the most time on T256239 Create MediaWiki-Docker documentation for all repositories with Selenium tests
  • Much excited about Wikibase and VisualEditor that are now working.
  • Worked with Esther on T284165 Create the first VisualEditor Selenium test
  • Other interesting things
  • Looking for a coworking space. Worked for one day in two of them, so far.


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2021-08-25[edit]

Attendance: Monte, Elena, Pita, Zeljko, Derrick, Dom, Anthony, JR, Greg, Rummana, Ima, Edward

   

- Topics -

  • Greg: MediaWiki K8s - testing the migration
  • When: Q2/Q3ish
  • What, exactly: Testing needs TBD in conversation with SRE + RelEng, your expertise needed!
  • Two areas of concern:  Insuring that MediaWiki works once migrated, and making sure that the deployment process still works.  
  • Need to figure out what our biggest areas of risk are.  
  • Greg: ERC Report
  • Elena: Centralizing test planning assets/artifacts
  • Task Triage Tool/Process


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Echo notifications on the apps
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Not much
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • May need to collaborate more on the trickier notifications testing
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • SecurePoll
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • High until the Elections finish next week
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Wrapping up the user links menu testing
  • Got an iphone so I'll be setting up beta for the new iOS to test an issue
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Manageable at this level
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Mobile refinements for Link recommendations
  • Mentor dashboard
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • intense, but manageable
  • Other interesting things
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • New team and project: Campaigns
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • synced on vue component testing with anne and eric
  • got graph working for ticket column times (with ddd library) - working with mukunda on identifying bugs
  • synced on triage tool
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Catching up
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
  • T283597 Update wdio-mediawiki to 1.1.1 in all repositories
  • Other interesting things
  • Paid vacation is the best thing ever 🏝



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2021-08-04[edit]

Attendance:

- Topics -

  • Announcements


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • The team is adding more complete Notifications to the apps. Testing is ongoing
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Nothing too notable, but gathering notes for triggering and then testing notifications
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Doing fine
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • SecurePoll
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Production errors:
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • High: work is piling up in both AHT and CommTech QA columns - our focus for the next ~2-4 weeks will mostly be SecurePoll
  • We might want help regression testing SecurePoll before the elections start in ~2 weeks
  • CommTech are starting a number of new projects (most I am not familiar with)
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • User Links is live (with a URL Param), doing the production testing now
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Heavy workload, but i will manage it
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • All is good
  • Other interesting things
  • Notifications and Testing ongoing conversation
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Secure Poll, IP Info, Disambiguration pages
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Yes, need help with Secure Poll and other
  • Other interesting things
  • Started a 100k run challenge for the month of August.
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • More phabricator cycle time work
  • Started looking at Mukunda's latest "ddd" patch, which should be useful for optimizing performance of cycle time bits
  • Got VSCode debugging wired up to work with "dockerized" flask python:
  • (Pretty happy with this setup as template for future work)
  • Forgot this last time - updated super basic dockerized mediawiki spin-up document:
  • Other interesting things
  • Good chat with Ima about phabricator api projects
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things

   

________________________________________________________________________

2021-07-14[edit]

Attendance: Dom, Edward, Elena, Ima. JR, John,

- Topics -

  • Vacation Stories


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Continuing Onboarding Tasks
  • Assisting Dom and Ima with testing (SecurePoll)
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • STV implementation for Board Elections
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • High, particularly once devs start pushing code for STV
  • Board elections start 3 weeks from today
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • New Language button
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Nothing comes to mnd
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Manageable, no help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Learned that a user gets assigned an internal ID number for each wiki.  There is a global id, but I don't believe that it is easily accessible.  This came up while trying to understand bucketing for AB tests.
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: Donors to newcomers - a new Special:CreateAccount page for donors
  • SD team: MediaSearch - refining user experience: error handling & UI fixes
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • seems to be ok
  • Other interesting things
  • went to Browserstack webinar - the presentaion on Cypress was really insirationtional
  • Esther
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Secure Poll and OCR project
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Getting aquiented with teams and catching up onboarding task
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Need to better understand beta deployed code and how to troubleshoot if feature is missing
  • Other interesting things
  • Getting ready for summer sports travel to Augusta, GA and Florida this month
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Don't have too much to update everyone all.  Just playing catchup from being out for the last three weeks.
  • Other interesting things
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • QAing banners for en6C pretest
  • QAing emails for Japan campaign
  • QAing emails for France campaign
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • WordPress preview plugin launched
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • KaiOS memory profiling, launch is blocked
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Topic subscription being rolled out to diffierent wikis in phases
  • Automatic topic subscription
  • Empty state design
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Regression testing.
  • Other interesting things
  • Vacation well spent. Was a good blend of completing long overdue chores and relaxation.
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T278827 Write missing Selenium documentation - at 75%
  • T275850 Make it clear that running `npm ci` is not secure - currently working on this page
  • Helping with code review:
  • T276847 Write a suite of user experience end-to-end integration tests for WikiLambda in selenium/etc.
  • T284521 Add selenium tests for GlobalWatchlist
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
  • T283597 Update wdio-mediawiki in all repositories
  • Other interesting things
  • I'll be on vacation a few weeks.
  • Looking for somebody to take care of: T270771 Keep selenium-daily-beta Jenkins jobs green

________________________________________________________________________

= 2021-06-30 =

Attendance: Derrick, Greg, Monte, Rummana, Ima, Zeljko, Esther, Pita, Dom, Anthony


- Topics -


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Derrick
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Wikisource OCR released to all production Wikisources
  • Unfortunately, the community response has not all been good :(
  • SecurePoll STV
  • The number of possible vote distributions is in the tens of trillions. Selecting interesting cases from all of these is hard. I am now attempting domain analysis/equivalence-class partitioning but this is still hard.
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • High, test data generation for SecurePoll STV is hard and I am trying to familiarise myself with techniques of numerical analysis/floating-point arithmetic errors at the same time.
  • Other interesting things
  • Had a really productive "pre-mortem" for the SecurePoll STV project:
  • Got to use principles from recursive optimisation/dynamic programming to generate test data for SecurePoll STV:
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • User links
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Wrapped the Language button
  • User links
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • No help needed
  • Have some time to focus on Selenium
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Esther
  • Going through my onboarding( tasks
  • Interesting 1:1 sessions with members of the team
  • Sync with Rummana and recurring syncs with Elena
  • Ima
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Migratated ticket time-on-project script to flask and docker
  • Other interesting things
  • Grabbed M1 laptop for better thermals - working on getting dockerized Phabricator working with it
  • Got good feedback from Tyler on the quick triage script - will circle back on this soon
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Manual topic subscription testing has been completed:
  • Manual Topic subscription is now deployed:
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Regression testing as usual
  • Other interesting things
  • I am back in SF from Wisconsin.
  • Talked to Ima, Esther and Derick about onboarding.
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T278827 Write missing Selenium documentation - at 75%
  • T248222 Selenium/Explanation/Page object pattern - done
  • T263660 Organize a blog post writing club - new member: Tyler!
  • T284165 Create the first VisualEditor Selenium test - some trouble
  • Reviewing
  • T284521 Add selenium tests for GlobalWatchlist
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
  • T283597 Update wdio-mediawiki in all repositories
  • Other interesting things
  • Last meeting was on 2021-05-19? (Because of offsite and all hands.)

________________________________________________________________________


= 2021-05-19 =


Attendance:


- Topics -

  • Onboarding - We've got 2 folks starting on June 1st and another on June 7th
  • Discussed the onboarding ideas. Specifically (from JR email):"One of the goals of on-boarding these new folks is to get them a broader understanding about the testing we do across the platform. " - scheduling one hour meeting for each QA team engineer (per team, i.e. ET works for two teams, two hours will be scheduled) should provide a good starting point for new QA engineers onboarding. As the additional benefit  - introducing to  teams' specific phab boards/gerrit/monitoring methods will consolidate their understanding of how those work.


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Wikisource OCR
  • More blocks stuff
  • Starting to implement Single-Transferable Vote for board elections
  • Quite nervous about testing this. The consequences of getting it wrong are bad. Help appreciated :)
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Lack of reliable Beta environment meant this bug slipped through, which could have been caught a couple of months ago had Beta not been unavailable at the time (it was not reproducible on docker), which means potentially a lot of lost time for the AHT team https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280275
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: all stuff related to machine suggested Add links
  • SD: MediaSearch on mobile -different videos formats playing fixes
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • a small cluster of interesting Add link bugs  -T283109, T283120, T282899 and T283207
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • the Inspiration week should help to sort out both teams' QA columns
  • Other interesting things
  • finished "The Phoenix project" and readign an excerpt from "DevOps Handbook"
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Annual planning update
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Good progress on data^3 ticket time-on-project task
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • New source mode on discussion tools
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Notification bundle.
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Help in doing regression test would be nice.
  • Other interesting things
  • Fully vaccinated.
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T253113 Record videos of all Selenium tests - in progress
  • T281484 Add a basic wdio.conf.js to wdio-mediawiki - waiting for code review
  • T263660 Organize a blog post writing club - John joined, Soham left
  • T282237 Upgrade README.md for Selenium tests across all the repositories - reviewing code from volunteers
  • T280969 Dismiss Chrome's `Save password?` popup - reviewing code from a volunteer
  • Other interesting things
  • covid 😷

________________________________________________________________________

= 2021-05-05 =

  • Attendance:Edward, Elena, Zeljko, Rummana, Dom, John, Greg,JR,Monte

- Topics -

  • Vue.js
  • Migration coordinator
  • Component testing lead
  • New QTE Members


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Adding ability to block users from specific actions (like moving a page, creating a page, uploading a file)
  • AHT will soon(?) start working on implementing Single Transferable Vote for Board Elections - potentially a big/complex project
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • CommTech will be temporarily down on engineers, so workload lighter (I guess)
  • Other interesting things
  • Beta's DB went into read-only mode at around 13:25 UTC today for about 5 mins. Possibly due to volume of requests being made to it. I was running a script which POSTed a form 1000 times (serially, not concurrently).
  • Inspiration Week?
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • New universal language button
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • working with Zeljko on some selenium stuff
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • ULS just went live so I'll be busy.
  • Other interesting things
  • I ran out of coffee.
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • "Add link" recommendation in production in stealth mode
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • many issues related to "Add link"
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • insanely busy
  • Other interesting things
  • +1 to Dom - Inspiration week?
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Data^3 workgroup has kicked off and first two metrics are being worked on.  This is a collaborative effort between RelEng and QTE.
  • Other interesting things
  • Annual Planning
  • Request made for compatibility testing tool budget
  • Made three staffing asks:  2 Test Engineers, 1 Software Engineer in Test
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Japan Banner + Email QA
  • France Email QA
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • bug fixes on triage script
  • added 'tag' support, found issue with tag support, fixing issue now
  • met with mukunda regarding data^3 - a bit of code review
  • met with rummana and max b. regarding triage script
  • Other interesting things
  • get internet hooked up at the house today!
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Topic subscriptions
  • Blocked user workflow
  • Growth team's Add a link
  • QuickTriage use cases documentation
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • In progress
  • T278827 Write missing Selenium documentation
  • T281484 Add a basic wdio.conf.js to wdio-mediawiki
  • Done
  • T214686 selenium-daily-beta Jenkins jobs should have junit publisher
  • T267360 Re-enable selenium-daily-beta-AdvancedSearch
  • T280652 Delete tests disabled for more than 1 year
  • T281372 Add timestamp function to wdio-mediawiki
  • T280334 remove @wdio/devtools-service NPM package
  • Other interesting things


________________________________________________________________________

= 2021-04-21 =

* Attendance: Monte, Pita, Rummana, Dom, Elena, Ed, Anthony, Željko


- Topics -

* Rummana promoted


- Round Robin -


* Anthony

** Notable features being worked on

iOS, work on language variants is done. Android, work on watchlist and image captions is nearly ready for release

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

Nothing super notable

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

Looking good so far

** Other interesting things


* Dom

** Notable features being worked on

*** AHT are working on Blocks (again)

*** Wikimedia OCR (for Wikisource)

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

*** Light right now (my columns are currently empty, but not for long)

** Other interesting things

*** First testing job: small company, I was dev and then moved into test (after my manager suggested it to me). Was first and only tester in company. Notable events:

   - Used php fork() in a script and crashed our company router

   - Introduced a bug in validation which caused an error message to appear while PM was demoing to client


* Edward

** Notable features being worked on

Language Button is being rolled out.

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269051 - This used to have a peculiar error that mysteriously dissappeared when I tried to demo it to Zeljko a few hours ago.

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

Expecting some language button testing once it is enabled in Prod.

** Other interesting things


* Elena

** Notable features being worked on

SD: MediaSearch went default on commons - so far, all seem to be good and quiet.

Growth: intense work on AddLInk Structured task  

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

Investigating user mini-workflows for AddLink - e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280422

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

Nicely balanced right now  - SD team finished the big project, and Growth team is actively  pushing  Structured AddLink for deployment

** Other interesting things

(we were sharing first QA job story): a company that did a plugin to QuickBooks (acccounting software). They need to get their application cerified in a month, otherwise the company would loose faunding.  And hired me:)


* Greg

** EngProd updates

** Other interesting things


* JR

** Project updates

** Other interesting things


* John

** Notable features being worked on

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

** Other interesting things


* Monte

** Project updates

Started looking at Mukunda's more generic Phab api wrapper

Cleaned up the script's configuration layout in prep for adding "tag" support

Began looking at how to use API to distinguish regular projects from "tags"

** Other interesting things

First testing experience of much substance was related to adding various tests to the iOS Wikipedia app


* Pita

** Notable features being worked on

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

Quite busy with GSoC and interview panel stuff but nothing urgent being held back

** Other interesting things

my first QA job was: "here's this healthcare app, if u miss some bug people can die, have fun"


* Rummana

** Notable features being worked on

Topic subscriptions

** Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T279604

** Current and projected workload - any help needed

Manageable right now

** Other interesting things

QA for Growth team's Add a link will start next week.


* Zeljko

** Project updates

*** T248221 Update Selenium documentation to work with WebdriverIO v6

**** Finished last quarter.

*** T278827 Write missing Selenium documentation

**** Working on it this quarter.

*** T210726 Selenium framework cleanup

**** I'm cleaning up things as I notice them while writing the documentation.

** Other interesting things

*** Failed to buy an apartment 🏠

*** Donated blood 🩸

*** How I got into testing: got a job, had no clue about testing, they gave me a couple of books to read and I was sitting in front of a computer and testing the app the best I could.

________________________________________________________________________

= 2021-04-07 =    

  • Attendance: Pita, Elena, Edward, Monte, Rummana, JR, Dom, John

- Topics -

  • Onboarding for QTE
  • QTE Office Hours
  • Definition of "Priority" field in Phab


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Started working on Wikimedia OCR
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • A little high
  • Other interesting things
  • Offers made to two new Test Engineers - one will be joining my teams
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Universal Language Selector
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Not a bug or a task, but we had a remote offsite last week
  • Worked on a performance analysis task with Nick Ray
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Under control.  This is a light week.
  • Other interesting things
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Structured Data team: MediaSearch is default - and there was a big celebration!
  • Growth team: Add link structured task - shaping up
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Bunch of logstash errors - nice to see that focus
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • It's fine - especially with Structured Data team is having a celebratory tech debt sprint :)
  • Other interesting things
  • Automation testing Office hours really work! On Mon Leza came and we had a long and productive discussion.
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Swamped
  • Other interesting things
  • Email on Acid - Email testing tool demo
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • multiple "destination" projects
  • UI for ticket collapsing
  • fewer changes require ticket reloads (removing/re-ordering projects etc)
  • small UI tweaks and layout improvements
  • keyboard shortcut for next/previous ticket jumping almost done (should wrap today)
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Reply tool
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things

________________________________________________________________________

= 2021-03-24 =

Attendance: Dom, Monte, Anthony, Rummana, Pita, John, Greg, Željko, Edward


- Topics -

  • Please add any annual planning info to your sections.


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Language variant testing
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Support for language variants, a couple of small bugs
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Looking good
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Last push on both WS Export and SecurePoll (ideally, we want to finish them both by end of this month)
  • Soon, we will start on the Wikisource OCR improvements project
  • Other interesting things
  • Interviewing two Test Engineer candidates this week and next
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • VueJS Search and the Universal Language Selector
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • manageable
  • Other interesting things
  • should be starting to select automation candidates for desktop improvements soon
  • I have not ever considered extending my vehicle warranty.
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: (1) Add link is on testwiki! Lots of UI testing. (2) QA support for Newcomer feature scaling - Homepage deployed to 6 more wikis
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks - fild 5 Add link bug reports and 3 logstash production errors report.
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • since Add link is "integrated" wih VE, most likely Rummana's help will be needed to do especially thorough testing for possible regressions/breakeage.
  • Other interesting things
  • attended BrowserStack conference - impressed with the level of presentations
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Workflow improvements on Asana
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Email and Banner QA for Italy, Sweden, Brazil and US Pre-Test Campaigns
  • Other interesting things
  • Looking into the tools Pita and Elena brought up for visual testing, Applitools and Percy
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Tons of fixes for ^ too - primary one was related to project search.
  • Other interesting things
  • Demo of script tomorrow (was going to present today but JR not available today)
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • nothing to note
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • No
  • Other interesting things
  • participating in the interview experiment
  • participating in GSoC
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Reply tool is now deployed at en.wiki, office wiki.
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Pairing with Monte on planning the behaviour/workflows of QuickTagging script
  • Started collecting use cases and requirements from different folks about their usage on CTT for budget planning
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Nope, all good for now.
  • Other interesting things
  • Breakpoint 2021 conference
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T267313 Off-board from Release Engineering
  • Done!
  • T268756 Outreachy blog posts
  • T272138 2020-2021 Q3 Individual Tuning Conversations
  • It's that time of the year again.
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
  • Vidhi updated one repository to v7 (FileImporter).
  • T269566 Remove ChromeDriver dependency in all repositories with Selenium tests
  • One repositor done, one repository has a patch waiting for review.
  • T247312 Make MediaWiki-Docker as the default for Selenium framework
  • One repository done (core). Patches exist for two more repositories. Timo doesn't like the idea. It's time to think if the task should be done at all, and if so, how.
  • T265463 Outreachy Microtask: Check if '/tests/selenium/log' is included in .gitignore in all repositories with Selenium tests
  • Finally checked if the task is resolved. It was, so I've closed it.
  • T253113 Record videos of all Selenium tests
  • After review, abandoned a couple of old patches.
  • T259341 Create a generic NPM package for recording videos of test runs
  • Nice progress by a volunteer (Jared).
  • T240766 Refactor TemplateWizard  Selenium tests
  • Reviewed old patches by a volunteer (Giselle). One is ready for merging.
  • Other interesting things
  • Entering a friendly (but rated) chess tournament with a local (online) chess club is a great way to see how bad you are at chess.


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= 2021-03-10 =

Attendance: Dom, Elena, JR, Pita, Greg, Željko, Monte, Edward, John, Rummana


- Topics -

  • Logstash Overview part 2 - Elena


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • SecurePoll and WS Export
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Low at the moment
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Vue Search
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Manageable
  • Other interesting things
  • I found out what Patch Demo was
  • Looking into a way to get top pages imported to beta for testing, possibly automagically
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Growth team: scaling - deploying GrowthExperiments features (customized) to many wikis
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • busy, but ok
  • Other interesting things
  • thinking about writing a blog post on Most Interesting Bugs
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Annual Planning!
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Code Stewardship discussions are in full swing with stakeholders from both Tech and Product.  Planning to propose approaches to solving both the backlog and backlog avoidance during the Annual Planning process.  
  • Data^3 workgroup (participation being defined) is being formed and will start meeting/working in the next couple of weeks.  
  • Vue.js engagement - we've started engaging with the vue.js migration team.  Early in on planning.  
  • Other interesting things
  • New candidate for AHT/CommTech to interview
  • Hiring COHORT experiment update
  • Appears the posting is closed now.
  • 200+ candidates ~ triaged down to about 20
  • Pita to help with the engineering interviews
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on - starting to build our our email QA program using Email On Acid
  • Desktop Refresh update has been pushed to pt.wikipedia.org
  • This update is also currently live on fr.wikipedia.org
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Currently building out Email QA for the fundraising team
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Quick Triage Script re-write of button presentation and handling in preparation of UI for searching for and selecting projects and columns to present tickets *from* (vs. having to manually maintain the manifest JSON file). Wiring these bits now.
  • Per Rummana's feedback added ability to also quickly change ticket's column on source project.
  • Priority and Status choices are dynamically fetched (discovered different Phab instances can have these configured differently).
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notification requirements .
  • Clearing the QA workboard.
  • Pairing with Monte about Quick Triage Script, got it running on my machine.
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Manageable for now.
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T277054 Selenium tests fail when using Fresh
  • In progress - waiting for code review. 🐌
  • T269566 Remove ChromeDriver dependency in all repositories with Selenium tests
  • In progress - patch merged for 1 repository (core). 🚀
  • T248221 Update Selenium documentation to work with WebdriverIO v6
  • In progress - 4 pages up to date. 🏋️‍♀️
  • T276900 Selenium tests fail if Vector skin is not installed
  • Fixed. 🔨
  • T277044 selenium-daily-beta(commons)-MediaWiki fails with `readonly: The wiki is currently in read-only mode.`
  • Caused by database problem. 📦
  • Other interesting things
  • Vidhi and Soham are planning to mentor a GSoC student. I think I've managed to get Pita to mentor them. 😬


= 2021-02-24 =

Attendance: Željko, Elena, Pita, Dom, Anthony, Rummana, JR, Edward


- Topics -

  • Logstash Overview - Elena


- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Language variant testing on iOS
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Bug regression on Android
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Picking up again, but looking good
  • Other interesting things
  • Got a black eye while playing with my kids :)
  • Dom
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Same old stuff: SecurePoll and WS Export
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Medium
  • Other interesting things
  • Edward
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Desktop Improvements: VueJS Search
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Language Button and Search Tasks
  • Debugging the selenium Minerva daily tests
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Very manageable
  • Other interesting things
  • Re-set up vscode js debugging without Zeljko for the first time.
  • Elena
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Structured Data team
  • Lots of UI improvements for Special:MediaSearch
  • Growth team
  • deploying Homepage features on Danish, Bengali, Thai wikipedias
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • ok
  • Other interesting things
  • it was very beneficial to work on logstash/eventlogging presentation!
  • Greg
  • EngProd updates
  • Other interesting things
  • JR
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • John
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Monte
  • Project updates
  • Other interesting things
  • Pita
  • Notable features being worked on
  • SX deployed to prod on bn wiki only for testing with the community
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • SX deployment and all the issues with deployments with train and SWATs and stuff
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • nope
  • Other interesting things
  • the developers from the inuka team are writing and fixing cypress themselves, this is amazing and the first time in my career that I managed to get this
  • Rummana
  • Notable features being worked on
  • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
  • Current and projected workload - any help needed
  • Other interesting things
  • Zeljko
  • Project updates
  • T263240 Mentor Outreachy Round 21 intern
  • T267313 Off-board from Release Engineering
  • almost there
  • T274167 Logstash/Kibana presentation at QTE meeting
  • mediawiki-new-errors
  • Other interesting things
  • T263660 Organize a blog post writing club
  • Going strong since 2020-10, now down to three members (Elena, Soham, me), looking for two more members
  • T245252 Organize Engineering Productivity watercooler meetings
  • Gaming watercooler this week!
  • T274579 Upgrade WebdriverIO to the latest version 7 for all repositories
  • Idea for the next internship, but blocked in us using Node.js v10 and WebdriverIO v7 not supporting it
  • Check if you've actually got the raise everybody was supposed to get last year. I didn't. Check if you've actually got the wellness money you've requested last year. I didn't.

2021-02-10[edit]

  • Attendance: Pita, Željko, Dom, Elena, Rummana, Anthony, Edward, Harriet

- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
    • Notable features being worked on
      • Watchlists on Android and bug regression
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
      • Normal testing
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • Looking good
    • Other interesting things
  • Dom
    • Notable features being worked on
      • SecurePoll
      • WS Export tool
      • Working on the new Wikisource extension (to improve UI/UX of ebook exports)
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • Manageable at the moment
    • Other interesting things
      • We have added 3 devs to AHT since December, with one more coming soon
  • Edward
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • A lot of testing in Prod with the train delay. Still manageable.
    • Other interesting things
      • Should be starting Vue Search testing next week.
  • Pita
    • Notable features being worked on
      • Section Translation (SX) is about to be released to only one wiki (bengali) for testing
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
      • Many bugs on the new SX project
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • SX is on the last stretch but don't think I need any help
    • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
    • Notable features being worked on
      • Topic Subscription work coming up
    • Other interesting things
      • Train being blocked delaying some verification task


2021-01-27[edit]

  • Attendance: Pita, Ed, Monte, Anthony, Rummana, Željko

- Topics -

- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
    • Notable features being worked on
      • Testing release candidates for both iOS and Android
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
      • Working on a new bug with article history on Android. Found a couple of other new bugs that have been fixed or closed. Nothing new on iOS yet.
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • Workload is fine right now
    • Other interesting things
      • When the kids are all home doing online learning it is difficult to do online work :)
  • Dom
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things
  • Edward
    • Notable features being worked on
      • a lot of Max-Width testing happening

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271978

    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
      • nothing really noteable, just more volume
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • No Help needed
    • Other interesting things
  • Elena
    • Notable features being worked on

- (GrowthTeam) lots of documentation and other preparatory materials on Structured tasks - Add Link, Add Image - (Structured Data team) keep testing UI improvements for MediaSearch

    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252692 [XL] Add support for boolean operators (AND, OR, -) to MediaSearch profile

    • Current and projected workload - any help needed

- the workload is normal so far

    • Other interesting things

- onboarding meetings with new devs for Growth team - it was interesting to talk to new people about QA processes and compare with their previous experience working with QA

  • Greg
    • EngProd updates
    • Other interesting things
  • JR
    • Project updates
    • Other interesting things
  • John
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things
  • Monte
    • Project updates
      • Triage script is fully working. Tweaking UI a bit today.
    • Other interesting things
      • Looks like about 10" of snow overnight!
  • Pita
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
    • Notable features being worked on
      • Add topic tool under Discussion tool
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
      • Lots of issues around New topic adding:
        • T272666: Comment highlight appears in an unexpected position.
        • T272746: [Regression pre-wmf.28] Comments are getting added in wrong order .
        • T272545: New Discussion Tool does not open if you have Reply Tool open from before.
        • T272543: The feedback message around the title field validation should disappear after adding a topic name
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things

2021-01-13[edit]

  • Attendance:

- Topics -

- Round Robin -

  • Anthony
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things


  • Dom
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
      • Quite a lot of work on Wikisource/WSExport and SecurePoll
      • AHT has two new engineers and 2 more joining soon
    • Other interesting things
      • We are forming a new T&S engineering team
  • Edward
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
        • Currently light but expected to get busy in the next week or two.
    • Other interesting things
        • Went to fix 1 selenium test that keeps erroring out, and found 3 tests that keep erroring out. but none locally.


  • Elena
    • Notable features being worked on

Lots of testing for UI improvements on MeidaSearch

    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

- Required a db conf change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272103[regression - wmf.26] frwiki Homepage SE module has 'cirrussearch-query-too-long' for default filters - few bugs for MediaSearch - T271373, T271388, T271874, T272000

    • Current and projected workload - any help needed

- looks normal so far

    • Other interesting things

- MediaSearch should be made default by the end of March - it requires a good QA focus on the project, but luckily Growth team still works on the backend for Add link Structured task.

  • Greg
    • EngProd updates
    • Other interesting things


  • JR
    • Project updates
    • Other interesting things


  • John
    • Notable features being worked on

WP20 Birthday banners

    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271749


    • Current and projected workload - any help needed

Thank you campaign 2021 Birthday banners

    • Other interesting things


  • Monte
    • Project updates

Updated triage script is getting close

    • Other interesting things
  • Pita
    • Notable features being worked on
    • Notable bugs/tasks over the last couple of weeks
    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things
  • Rummana
    • Notable features/tasks being worked on

- Bug verification, ITC, Testing considerations

    • Current and projected workload - any help needed
    • Other interesting things

Learning French


  • Zeljko
    • Other interesting things
      • A local testing meetup I help organize is now online, feel free to join: https://www.meetup.com/testival/
      • Fall down while having fun with the kids on the snow, can't run for 2-3 weeks 😱 (at least)