Engineering Community Team meeting, 3 July, 2012
Attending: Sumana, Guillaume, Chris
List of projects
- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
- Feature testing efforts
- Community testing planning
- 20% time wrangling
- 1.20 deployment
- Git and Gerrit migration
- Training documentation
- Monthly report
- Communications support
- Engineering activity documentation
- Recruiting/hiring
- Wikimania
- Hackathons/events (January SF, Pune, Berlin, Wikimania)
- Conferences in general
- Gerrit project owner groups
- Recruitment/encouragement
- GSOC
- UCOSP
- Dev community metrics
- HR feedback
Who's doing what (this week)
Chris: -- AFT deploy, hiring are top priorities. Will reviews half-dozen new applications for QA Engineer
Guillaume: communications support, Wikimania prep 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, yearly assessment Claudia: Dev community metrics
- Testing infrastructure/automation (incl Labs)
-- Conversation is ongoing, but policy (per Rob) of "if it has a deployment scheduled, get it on beta labs" is in place and everyone is aware of it.
Feature testing efforts
-- Article Feedback deploy today to ramp up to 1% of enwiki -- AFT considered stable, contract with OmniTI is ended -- E2 project ramping up now
Community testing planning
-- Nothing solid right now, but discussed an Extensions bug triage project with Weekend Testers, they're interested -- review Openhatch test event
OpenHatch postmortem with Asheesh - when? Chris McMahon will schedule it.
Extensions testing w/WT
Parveen? none
20% time wrangling
Sumana
1.20 deployment
-- is becoming routine
Git and Gerrit migration
Training documentation
somewhat updated more in early July
Monthly report
Get your statuses in by Thursday!
Communications support
Guillaume continues to follow up on occasional requests, blog post reviews, etc.
Engineering activity documentation
Recruiting/hiring
Sumana continuing to work on bug wrangler hiring, QA volunteer coordinator, and tech events coordinator
got contract help for Wikimania hackathon!
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=odKnWfw0&c=qSa9VfwQ
Chris working on QA engineer hiring. (QA reviews and interview.) Ongoing candidate review. Tech and panel interviews in progress for four candidates.
Wikimania
Guillaume: presentation prep, currently consolidating content around https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_history before using it to build the presentation Sumana: need to prep presentation, need to write to Wikimania participants to suggest wikitech-ambassadors meetup
Hackathons/events (January SF, Berlin, Wikimania)
Sumana working on Wikimania hackathon prep, need to do SF & Berlin followup,
Conferences in general
Sumana to write blog post about OSB
SMWCon - Chris to consider
Gerrit project owner groups
Sumana doing regularly
Recruitment/encouragement
Sumana running developer access queue Sumana continuing to do this.
GSoC
Sumana need to continue
UCOSP
Sumana starting quick postmortem
- TODO: talk with Yuvi & Amgine via email
Dev community metrics
- Mark & Chris successfully talked to Claudia :) - setting up R<>BugzillaAPI connection - collecting information to Bugzilla Management (setting up the "wall") - analyzing the development of patch submissions over the last years
Misc
Tomorrow is US holiday