Hello and thanks for reading! We wanted to give a quick update on what happened during the final day of the Wikimedia Technical Conference <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019>, in Atlanta, Georgia.
*Friday <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019/Program#Day_4_-_Friday_November_15th>, November 15, 2019:* The first morning session looked at LocalDev: complex multi-service MediaWiki development and use cases / personas that need tailored development environments (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235372>). We also discussed API Integration Testing concentrating on functions, stories, and scenarios (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234636>). After we dot voted on Thursday morning, we finished up the last unconference sessions on Friday: - New CI / Argo k8s for CI workloads challenges, details, paths forward ( ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238261>) - Wikimedia Space solves all your (communication) problems* (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238237>) - The test pyramid and speeding up your results (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234637>) - kiwix / open ZIM. portfolio software stack, future ?, tech needs - What is a technical contribution? (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238262>) - JS Framework Experience Sharing (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238264>) - Global templates! Let's flesh it out (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238251>) - Logspam - how do we have less / surface it to the right people? (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238250>) - PHPUnit: what can we improve, can we remove phpunit.php wrapper script, etc (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238227>) - What user analytics would help you as a developer? (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238274>) - I'll help you replace Travis with Actions for GitHub-mastered repos ( ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238244>) - The gradation of participation - what is a third party? Defining a common phrase with a common – and shared – understanding (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238234>) - Ukulele to wikitext (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238290> ) The last session was a Recap and Reflection gathering using a world cafe style discussion (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238406>) - each of the 5 themes have a notes document that is in their respective epic tickets: - Local Development and onboarding (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234087>) - Testing (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234088>) - Deploying and Hosting (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234089>) - Standardization Decisions (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234090>) - People and Processes (ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234091>) We also did a group photo <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019_Group_Photo.jpg> in-between raindrops! We ended the day with our last documentation sprint, copying info from the day's sessions and moving them into the phabricator tickets (to keep all the data in one place), taking pictures of the session sticky notes / diagrams, and then adding them also into the phabricator tickets. whew! Photos and documentation that have been uploaded can be viewed using this category <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019> (look for day 4 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019,_day_4>) on Commons: Category:Wikimedia Technical Conference 2019 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_2019> (sample demo: ukulele to wikitext <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Technical_Conference_session_-_Ukulele_to_wikitext_(short_video).webm> video). Cheers, The Wikimedia Technical Conference Program Committee -- deb tankersley (she/her) program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
