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