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Engineering Community Team meeting, 1 May 2012

Attending: Mark, Sumana, Guillaume, Chris

List of projects

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  • 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)

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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

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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

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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

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Sumana

1.19 tarball

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(nothing from us this week)

1.20 deployment

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


Git and Gerrit migration

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


Bugzilla application management

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Git integration?

Wikimedia blog maintenance

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on hold this week

Training documentation

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

Monthly report

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Guillaume sprinting on this this week

Communications support

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on hold this week

Engineering activity documentation

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pages updated while putting together the monthly report

Recruiting/hiring

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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)

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Sumana working on Berlin travel sponsorships

Conferences in general

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Gerrit project owner groups

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Sumana doing regularly

Recruitment/encouragement

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

Mark finding personalized tasks for Bug Squad people

GSoC

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Mentors mentoring community bonding period

UCOSP

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

Dev community metrics

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- 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

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  • 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.