Hello all!
Are you planning to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022 from May 20-22 next month? We hope to see you there!
The main event will be held online. We have an open call for sessions on our schedule page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule. If you'd like to host a session, you can simply pick an open slot in the category which best fits your topic. The developer advocacy team also put together some suggestions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions for how to create a fun session.
You can also add project ideas to the Phabricator Board. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5802/
We will share more information soon about how to join the online space and where to find local meetups.
Take care! Haley and the Hackathon Committee
Hello all,
Following up on this thread - Komla (cc'd) and I are planning to moderate a few sessions at the upcoming Wikimedia Hackathon; each focused on a popular bot to show how one can set it up on their language wiki < https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306593%3E [1]. We are currently recruiting session leaders who are owners / maintainers of a popular bot (for example, < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Too... [2]). We want the session leader to address some commonly asked questions about setting up a bot (see the task description for details). If you are interested in joining our efforts and running a session around a bot that you own, please share your interest in the Phabricator task linked above.
Best,
Srishti
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306593
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit/Bots_and_Too...
*Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 8:25 PM Haley Lepp hlepp@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all!
Are you planning to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022 from May 20-22 next month? We hope to see you there!
The main event will be held online. We have an open call for sessions on our schedule page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule. If you'd like to host a session, you can simply pick an open slot in the category which best fits your topic. The developer advocacy team also put together some suggestions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions for how to create a fun session.
You can also add project ideas to the Phabricator Board. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5802/
We will share more information soon about how to join the online space and where to find local meetups.
Take care! Haley and the Hackathon Committee
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Would anyone be interest in a session about triaging tickets ?
One of things I do quite often is just take a project in Phabricator and go through the tickets and determine if: * The problem (still) exists * Additional information can be gathered * Proper projects, tags and work board columns have been applied * Set a priority * Ping any person that I think might be able to give more input and/or could fix or need to know about the ticket
This is work that doesn't require too much of a commitment and can often be done by most community members if they have a bit of a technical background and can be very useful to other developers as you make the tickets more actionable and better navigable, saving ppl time.
So I was thinking, maybe I could do this in the first part of the session showing how I do this ? And then maybe others could participate as we go along and I help them if they get stuck or have questions? I think it could work quite well in an online format.
DJ
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:25 AM Haley Lepp hlepp@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello all!
Are you planning to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022 from May 20-22 next month? We hope to see you there!
The main event will be held online. We have an open call for sessions on our schedule page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule. If you'd like to host a session, you can simply pick an open slot in the category which best fits your topic. The developer advocacy team also put together some suggestions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule/Sessions for how to create a fun session.
You can also add project ideas to the Phabricator Board. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5802/
We will share more information soon about how to join the online space and where to find local meetups.
Take care! Haley and the Hackathon Committee
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The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be appreciated :-)
On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com wrote:
Would anyone be interest in a session about triaging tickets ? ...
- Set a priority
While i don't know the specifics of the situation you encountered, a common view (not the only view) is priority should be set by people who are going to do the work to fix the bug (or in consultation with them), except for "unbreak now". This may or may not be WMF staff.
The problem is that almost every bug is important to someone, so if everybody sets priorities just for the things they care about (and people tend to only increase them never decrease) every single bug ends up being set as "high", even the ones that people generally think are useless and noone intends to work on. The end result is the priority field becomes ignored, because it no longer reflects the real priority of the bug.
-- Brian
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Roy Smith roy@panix.com wrote:
The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be appreciated :-)
On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com> wrote:
Would anyone be interest in a session about triaging tickets ? ...
- Set a priority
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On Thursday, April 28, 2022, Roy Smith roy@panix.com wrote:
The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be appreciated :-)
Brian explains this well, I'd just like to add that it's still very useful to know if you think something is a high priority. Instead of setting the priority of the task, you can comment and explain a bit, this kind of context is always welcome, especially for newly hired WMF staff.
Andre also has Q&A sessions on Phabricator and I'm sure he will cover Priorities.
My session idea would get a bit more hands-on than Andre's session. It's sort of 'the next step'. I'll be doing a live dive into problem descriptions, problem reproduction, and how things like code search, deploy train logs and Gerrit can help you look into a ticket that (mostly) someone else has written.
DJ
On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:59 PM Roy Smith roy@panix.com wrote:
The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be appreciated :-)
On Apr 28, 2022, at 8:47 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml@gmail.com> wrote:
Would anyone be interest in a session about triaging tickets ? ...
- Set a priority
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 2:59 PM Roy Smith roy@panix.com wrote:
The last time I tried to set a phab ticket's priority, I was basically told that volunteers shouldn't be doing that, i.e. changing priorities of phab tickets was reserved to WMF staff. Some clarity around this would be appreciated :-)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Development_prioritization#Why... might be relevant here. In short, there's often a miscommunication around how to use priorities. The priority is read as "is this important?" but a lot of times it indicates if someone is working on or going to work on something now or soon.
//Johan Jönsson --
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