We are discussing the possibility of maintaining a weekly summary of news related to the areas covered by Developer Relations <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations>: technical documentation, events, and community. See Phab:T114224. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114224>
We have a number 0 at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary, pasted below for convenience. How can we improve the content and the distribution? We welcome your feedback. 2015-10-08[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&veaction=edit&vesection=1> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&action=edit§ion=1> ] - By the call for participation deadline on October 2, the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> had - 52 session proposals <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-summit-2016/> presented - 129 people registered, from which 17 request travel sponsorship. - Outreachy round 11 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_11> is here. Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas> is the new org admin, and Niharika Kohli <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Niharika> is secondary org admin in this round. (T112267) <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112267> - 5 project ideas featured, 18 missing mentors, 34 need discussion. You can help at Possible-Tech-Projects workboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/possible-tech-projects/>. ( T112620 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112620>) - Code of Conduct draft <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft>: the second round <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft> of feedback for the first sections ended with mixed results. The open discussions will continue in a new round <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft> . - There is a new process to mark inactive software projects <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Inactive_projects>, aimed to highlight stalled repositories without code reviewers or maintainers. ( T102920 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102920>) - Creating tasks to clean the code review queue of slow repositories? The first task goes for analytics/wikistats. (T113695 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695>) - Google has released a set of Freebase to Wikidata mapping tools <https://github.com/google/freebase-wikidata-converter> thanks to an internship with Tpt <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Tpt>. ( announcement <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-October/007319.html> ) Metrics[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&veaction=edit&vesection=2> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&action=edit§ion=2> ] - Code repositories with slowest code review <http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/gerrit_review_queue.html>: 1. Wikistats <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/project:analytics/wikistats+status:open,n,z>: 475 days, 5 changesets. (T113695 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113695>) 2. Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex renderer <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/Collection/OfflineContentGenerator/latex_renderer,n,z>: 463 days, 4 changesets. 3. EducationProgram <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/EducationProgram,n,z>: 459 days, 2 changesets. 4. BookManagerv2 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BookManagerv2,n,z>: 443 days, 21 changesets. 5. BayesianFilter <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/status:open+project:mediawiki/extensions/BayesianFilter,n,z>: 386 days, 1 changeset. Jul-Sep 2015[edit <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&veaction=edit&vesection=3> | edit source <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Developer_Relations/Weekly_summary&action=edit§ion=3> ] Tech community metrics <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics> presented at the Community Engagement quarterly review <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113030>: Code review - Median age of open changesets waiting for review: 36.2 days (-21.3% Quarter on Quarter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_on_quarter>, -21.1% Year over Year <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/year-over-year>) - Median age of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 67.2 days (-19.5% QoQ, 51.6% YoY) - Number of open changesets waiting for review: 1075 (0.8% QoQ, 2.6% YoY) - Number of open changesets waiting for review (MediaWiki core): 192 (-14.2% QoQ, -35.1% YoY) - Number of new changesets submitted per month: 3639 (10.9% QoQ, 21.7% YoY) - Number of code uploaders per month: 205 (-0.2% QoQ, 0.5% YoY) - Number of code reviewers per month: 189 (0.5% QoQ, 4.4% YoY) - Number of code committers per month: 128 (-3.0% QoQ, 13.2% YoY) Phabricator - 863 active users in Wikimedia Phabricator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics> during September, our highest number so far. - 363 new accounts in Wikimedia Phabricator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics>, keeping a growing trend. -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
