Hi everyone,
Per our earlier list conversations, Wikimedia Foundation employees are
going to be spending more time (20% for most engineers) on things like
code review, shell requests, and such. As we've discussed what that
actually means, it became clear to everyone that many engineers will
need training (or at least refreshers) in order to make the most
effective use of that time. Additionally, we would benefit from group
discussion about what code review is.
Since we have a few remote developers visiting us in San Francisco,
we're setting up the first training session for this. This will
optimized for local participation in San Francisco, but we're going to
at least try to get video for purposes of expanding documentation, and
perhaps as educational videos for developers who can't be here but
prefer to learn that way.
This meeting is scheduled for July 19, at 2:30pm PDT. Here's some of
the areas we're planning to have short talks on:
* The basics
* Stability and performance
* UI considerations
* Security
* Unit testing
* General code review philosophy
This won't be the last time we'll be presenting these things. I
imagine we'll be refining these talks for Hackathons and other events.
If you aren't an employee of Wikimedia Foundation, but you'll be in SF
and you'd like to come, let me know and I'll see if we can accommodate
you. If you have ideas for areas that we should cover that aren't
listed above, please let us know.
Thanks!
Rob