[Wikitech-l] Industry news: GitHub policy change for free private repos with up to 3 collaborators

2019-01-08 Thread Pine W
Industry news that I think may interest some Wikimedians, particularly students and developers of small projects where privacy of code is a concern, but keep in mind that GitHub is now owned by Microsoft: https://blog.github.com/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/ Pine (

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Your Participation Requested - Interview about your local development environment

2019-01-08 Thread Jeena Huneidi
Hi Gergo, Thanks for voicing your concerns! This is just one step in the information gathering process. I actually started out by looking through the Developer Satisfaction survey. I did consider sending out another survey, but ended up choosing the interview method for this step because I’d

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Engineering] Your Participation Requested - Interview about your local development environment

2019-01-08 Thread Gergo Tisza
Great to see this happen! Given the large variance in people's local development environments, which is surely impossible to fully capture via interviews, I'm wondering if there will be some less time-intensive and more inclusive alternative way for providing input?

[Wikitech-l] Your Participation Requested - Interview about your local development environment

2019-01-08 Thread Jeena Huneidi
Hello Everyone, I am working on improving developer productivity! Specifically, I am aiming to improve the local development environment. Satisfaction with the local development environment got the second lowest score in the developer satisfaction survey, and we (Release Engineering) would like

Re: [Wikitech-l] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

2019-01-08 Thread Pine W
Hi, the Wikimedia Café for January will be on Wednesday the 23rd at 11 AM Pacific / 7 PM UTC. The Zoom link is below. Because of the monthly limit for emails from any one person to Wikimedia-l and my wish to conserve my remaining emails to that list for other topics, I likely will not send a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Thank you Tuesday

2019-01-08 Thread Rosalie Perside
Happy new year all, One more Tuesday :). I thank Wikimedia developers and the whole community for all the skills i have acquired so far from being a member and a volunteer. I have known amazing developers who have and continue to mentor me. Thank you all. Best, On Wed, 26 Dec 2018, 08:31 Lucas