User:MarkAHershberger/Weekly reports/2011-06-20

I was actually in San Francisco for the week ending 2011-06-17, so I had the chance to meet F2F with some folks.


 * Erik Moeller in Bug Triage
 * Since I was in the office last week, I used the time to pull Erik into the bug triage. As a result of his feedback, this week I'm going to start doing triages on IRC.  I'll also start digging into the nuts and bolts of what the common extensions are and how they're used.


 * Had a conversation with Sumana & Robla about Bugzilla priority
 * Another benefit of being in the office: I had a great conversation with Sumana and Robla about the Bugzilla priority field and how to make it more useful. Another bonus, Sumana is going to help with reminding me about some regular Bugzilla tasks that need to happen.


 * Helped Sumana start using my Bugzilla client.
 * I worked with Sumana to figure out why the Bugzilla client I wrote wasn't working for her. It looks like her PHP version doesn't work right with MediaWiki's HTTPClient class.  Bug filed and worked around by installing php-curl.


 * Met with Jessie Wild about her initial encounter with Libraries Across Africa (LAA)
 * A while back I saw that one of my LinkedIn contacts had started working with LAA. It looked to me like a good partner, even though the foundation is focused on India and Brazil.  I managed to help Jessie start a conversation with someone from the LAA and, as a result, we may have an “in” when these libraries actually start getting built.  It'd be awesome to have them staffed with Wikipedians.  I hope this means we'll see Africa's presence growing on Wikipedia.


 * Read Whitepaper, March 2011 Update
 * I finally read the Product Whitepaper, the March 2011 Update. It helps to have a “big picture” in mind.


 * Posted Job opening to LinkedIn contacts
 * I know a few sysadmin/programmer type people so I used my LinkedIn account to let them know that they, too, could be working for Wikimedia. A couple of them are likely to apply.


 * Incorrect native name for Ossetian language — FIXED!
 * After noticing that Brion has commented a couple of weeks prior about this issue and received a reply the next day, I asked him if he had enough information to fix it. He did, so now it is done.


 * Finally deployed GNSM for Wikinews
 * To make this happen, I used the brand-new “webmaster@wikimedia.org” account and shared the account info with a couple of other people — in case I decide to run away after winning the lottery. Some wikinews stories started showing up on Google News soon afterward.


 * Start Test Swarm client
 * In order to do my part to help test MediaWiki, I tried to set up a Firefox 3.5 client and point it at krinkle's TestSwarm installation. For some reason, I couldn't get it to work.


 * Apache bug sprint
 * Got the error logs from Ops, so I have a TODO: create bugs and post list to wikitch-l for sprint (or something else. Ask Sumana what she thinks.)


 * Reviewed the list of “High” and “Highest” priority bugs
 * Moved some to enhancements, removed “high” tag from some.


 * Google Safe Browsing notices
 * Hopefully Paul Youngmeister will put the notices in Nagios.