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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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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.
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil