[19:59:16] Hi Everyone. Those who are here for the VE Triage Meeting: I'm running audio on this call, so if you need assistance or have comments, please ping me here. Thanks! [19:59:41] There's a public stream? [19:59:55] marktraceur: Nope, just a phone call. You're welcome to call in. [20:00:03] https://wikimedia.webex.com/wikimedia/j.php?MTID=m09ceba9c87e84c2d7d644f413910f5a1 is the link [20:00:03] A phone call? Wat [20:00:08] Oh christ webex [20:00:19] * marktraceur runs to get an icepick [20:01:12] We're starting the call, and James is beginning the meeting. [20:01:14] Hello! [20:01:17] would appreciate audio comments [20:01:56] marktraceur: Yes, many global folks [20:02:11] VERY strongly suggest joining via computer, not phone [20:02:22] The first thing we are going to discuss are the release criteria for VisualEditor [20:02:24] My phone uses my wifi now anyway [20:02:34] But I'm not taking part, just being a whiner about the medium :) [20:03:16] gosh, clicking "Edit > Preferences" crashes that weird WebEx thingy, and microphone does not seem to work. [20:03:26] Damon is asking for prodcutive conversation today to get ideas and bug from users into the triage [20:03:27] andre__: What platform are you on? [20:03:32] cndiv, Fedora 21 [20:03:45] Specifically, this is the page where you can see the current list: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1015/ [20:04:04] Are we using an etherpad for this, or just IRC+phone+Phabricator? [20:04:17] Just IRC+Phab+WebEx. [20:04:44] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/VEtriage if people want to take notes [20:04:53] (My experience with accessing WebEx via actual telephone was poor yesterday. I get better sound quality by using their plug-in.) [20:05:44] Thanks for joining, gnubeard. [20:05:48] Can people hear the meeting OK? [20:06:10] Audio comments very appreciated. [20:06:22] audio is okay. [20:06:30] 6/10 [20:06:42] James is dicussing the objectives and will unmute the channel for comments. [20:07:05] Hi, if you are on the call, and if you have a comment, [20:07:12] oh. I see. Sorry then. Wasn't aware of this. So my microphone does work. :) [20:07:24] If you are not on the call, ragesoss is calling in [20:07:27] Unmute the channel? [20:07:38] yes, the audio is pretty fine. [20:07:45] Marybelle are you muted? [20:07:50] People are talking [20:07:53] Please introduce yourself when talking [20:08:00] I think this is MArk H [20:08:22] (h.exmode) [20:08:31] guillom: who is speaking appears on the participants sidebar (at least here) [20:08:37] Mark Andrew H maybe. Oh wait no. [20:08:52] #replacenameswithSHA1 [20:09:18] marcoil: ah, ok. For people on this end of the call, we only hear voices (the webex interface isn't displayed here) [20:09:21] Okay, so what's the first task to discuss? [20:09:42] Marybelle: We are talking about release criteria now. [20:09:48] We are currently taking questions about the Objectives and criteria. We are moving on to the blockers [20:09:51] Now, we are going through the blocker nominations. [20:09:52] You can see them here [20:10:01] Talking where? Was I supposed to call in? [20:10:08] -> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/sprint/board/1015/ [20:10:11] I thought we were meeting in here. [20:10:11] I can hear the meeting OK yes [20:10:22] Call in info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal [20:10:25] Marybelle: No, webex [20:10:28] Marybelle pming you [20:10:35] Marybelle: It’s both dial-in and IRC as a backchannel for URL sharing and sidebar convos. [20:10:43] Urgh. [20:11:57] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74048 [20:12:16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86921 [20:12:33] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72665 [20:12:40] Thanks a lot, whatami. [20:12:54] Thanks whatami :) [20:13:10] James is thinking this is a Nice to Have rather than a blocker [20:13:12] Yes, really helps to have the task urls posted in the channel. :) [20:13:31] I agree that T72665 should not be a blocker. [20:14:03] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67589 [20:14:17] Thanks James for writing explanations about de-prioritization. [20:14:40] James says he will be writing up the documentation for this later today. [20:14:45] That one sounds like an easter egg :) [20:15:26] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67589 is an accessibility issue but to a advanced feature. [20:15:54] Table editing is advanced? [20:16:10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89025 [20:16:32] Marybelle, was that literally said? [20:16:47] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88148 [20:17:12] andre__: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67589 was mentioned as an advanced feature. [20:17:34] Marybelle, I think editing tables and moving in them with your keyboard is a bit advanced, indeed [20:17:36] Marybelle I will hold your question [20:17:44] but feel free to disagree :) [20:17:59] It's not really advanced to anyone who's ever used Excel. [20:18:03] But all right. [20:18:08] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88148 looks pretty strange. [20:18:21] I'm not sure I'd call "wikitable wikitable" --> "wikitable" corruption, per se. [20:18:23] Marybelle: Trevor is addressing “advanced” [20:18:26] Trevor is following up - it's advanced relative to this conversation. [20:18:40] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74929 [20:19:57] https://de.wikipedia.org/?diff=138315500 seems to be worrying in other ways besides the wikitable class. What's with the ? [20:20:01] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74579 [20:20:21] Marybelle: Sounds like a good comment for the task. :) [20:20:22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74398 [20:20:27] T74579 accepted [20:21:19] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72375 [20:21:45] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70537 [20:23:41] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88386 [20:24:23] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78202 [20:24:56] cndiv: Quick question: how many people are there on the call? [20:25:02] 17. [20:25:05] guillom: yep [20:25:07] thanks :) [20:25:24] How many from the WTF and how many not? [20:25:27] errr [20:25:29] WMF [20:25:32] guillom: but two of those are us here in the room. One is me and the other is the speakerphones in the room. [20:25:52] How can we say? People are using nicknames here ;) [20:25:54] Elitre: you can identify who's WMF and who isn't easier than I can... [20:26:01] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76715 [20:26:04] NO worries; I was just curious [20:26:20] I expected more people [20:26:23] More people than GHangout can accommodate, at any rate [20:26:36] 15 is the limit in hangouts? [20:26:36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76523 [20:26:56] yes [20:27:25] Thank you to whomever +1'd via phone :) [20:27:25] thanks [20:27:33] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66171 [20:28:08] Parsoid bug and it's being accepted as a dependency [20:28:22] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55825 [20:28:37] I'm not on the call, but all the tasks in here seem to be blockers and everyone seems to agree. [20:28:46] "Call-in user_2" is very clear who that is (not) [20:29:31] Marybelle: some were rejected, and explanation will be published for those. [20:30:04] Only two have been rejected [20:30:14] I may be seeing a biased sample in here, but I agree with acceptance for most of these. [20:30:21] Page corruption is intolerable. [20:30:53] what are the memory usage targets? [20:31:30] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53798 [20:31:37] tnegrin - no baseline yet, need measurement first [20:31:38] Marybelle: definitely [20:31:42] I would like a ticket for the measurement/baselines [20:31:46] Said we don't have a baseline for mem usuage targets righ now, tnegrin [20:32:10] it happens -- primary focus has been on functionality. now we have to optimize -- it's the right order [20:32:28] if you refresh the phabricator board you'll see them at the top of the "nominated" column [20:32:28] (first 3) [20:32:28] Trevor says: we don't have a baseline, so we don't have targets [20:32:28] Needs to consult with ori & Roan [20:32:28] now https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53798 [20:32:34] (sorry, was lagging) [20:33:46] Should be more of a tracker [20:34:06] and reworded to not say "every" [20:34:35] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52616 [20:36:08] benchmarked against ff34 though it does mention ff21 [20:38:45] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88337 [20:39:05] Trevor already working on this one [20:41:38] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89074 [20:41:44] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89072 [20:41:54] These two bugs are hand in hand [20:42:33] These two are about new editors. [20:42:34] Suggested "Getting Started" or something like it to intriduce user to VE [20:43:18] Not in favor of this being a blocker to to getting the actualy sofware shipped [20:43:31] Discussion from a product perspective [20:44:26] Talking about last few weeks for polish [20:46:43] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88650 [20:47:15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88623 [20:48:46] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88316 [20:50:01] Skepticism about this one being a blocker [20:50:30] Possibly a polish task according to eng. If threre are any thoughts on that [20:51:36] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87553 [20:52:13] This is a large performance task. Thinking there's scope for taking it but needs to specify which aspects [20:53:12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86693 [20:54:05] It's a design bug which team not convinced is a current top priority. User testing has indicaated that people can find the toolbar [20:54:46] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76398 [20:55:11] Feeature change around link inspector. James thinks it can be accepted. [20:55:55] Trevor thinks this is not a blocker. [20:56:10] Trevor wants to discuss more, doesn't think it would be a blocker [20:57:08] Brief discussion here. [20:57:30] We are going to discuss this one more, and welcome input [20:57:56] 2 tickets letft but any feedback? [20:57:57] Stopping the list now. [20:58:04] Phone users are all unmuted, [20:58:12] Computer users can unmute themselves [20:58:18] James requests feedback on the conversation. [20:58:33] We're just about at time. [20:59:43] Regarding feedback I can just say: Such meetings are helpful to see how decisions are made and what general arguments are. [21:00:12] Thanks everyone for coming! Keep watching wiki/lists for updates. And Phab tasks, of course - please comment, and nominate future blockers! [21:00:39] Feedback about the process is welcome at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal [21:00:44] Feedback about this meeting in general, visual editor portal is a good p;ace to do so [21:01:11] So [21:01:47] I have a context question, which I might have missed because I got in a fight with Linux about whether it was okay to run WebEx at the beginning... [21:02:05] Under the announcement will be OK for that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal [21:02:07] What does it mean to be a Q3 blocker, exactly? [21:02:13] Quarter 3 [21:02:26] I guess [21:02:29] yes, Q1 is January - April. [21:02:35] April 1 that is. [21:02:36] There's a Q3 (until the end of March) goal of having VisualEditor "ready to ship". [21:02:43] ragesoss: it's explained at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1015/ ? [21:02:48] ragesoss, the're here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1015/ [21:02:53] No, they're using fiscal years, not calendar years. [21:03:01] We're surrounded by links! [21:03:19] yeah, I'm looking at the 1015 tracker... [21:03:29] "Q3 blockers" are the things that need to be fixed before that goal could be reasonably declared to have been achieved. [21:03:43] Also, see Measures of success at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Top_departmental_priorities_for_Q3_.28January-March_2015.29 ! [21:04:00] okay. and the goal is the be 'ready to ship', but not specifically, say 'have actually shipped to en.wiki'? [21:04:59] Exactly. [21:05:10] ragesoss: that's what the page says :) [21:05:41] Also, I believe that the "ready to ship" goal is tailored to the needs of new editors, not power users like me. [21:06:55] I just wasn't sure whether 'ready to ship' had an implied correlary, 'it ships when it's ready'. But the 'subject to community happiness' caveat explains that. Thanks much for the links. [21:07:10] You're welcome. [21:07:33] FWIW, Wiki Ed has asked a few experienced instructors this term to ask their students to start with VE. [21:07:35] Also, for anyone else who's still around: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal has (minimal) instructions on how to add something to the list for next week's meeting. [21:07:56] feedback so far is positive, so I think for the August-December term, we'll recommend that for all classes. [21:08:07] If anyone needs help getting something on the list, then please reach out to James F or someone else. [21:08:32] I'm glad that the feedback is positive so far. [21:09:08] For my part, I think adding 'cite by url' would make it good enough that most newcomers would have a better experience. [21:09:41] (and that was already an accepted blocker at the outset of this meeting) [21:09:57] ragesoss: standard Wikimedia DC procedure is to encourage people to turn on visual editor when they create new accounts... though it looks like it's on by default now? [21:10:13] harej: no, it shouldn't be on by default for newcomers. [21:10:24] ah. then i guess someone had a lapse in memory :] [21:10:34] (on by default strictly for new accounts, i mean) [21:11:08] Yeah, unless that changed very recently, it's not on by default. [21:11:19] If your Beta features are enabled, you do get used to seeing it though [21:11:43] It is not on by default. The goal of burning down the bug chart is to get it ready to be [21:13:29] Thanks all for coming, again! Talk to you all on wikis. [21:14:02] ahhHHH! MY bug chart [21:14:34] nice bug chart. [21:14:43] be a shame if something happened to it. [21:48:55] VE thing in a few minutes? [21:49:32] aharoni: Nope, it was earlier. :-) [21:49:36] i think the visua—what marybelle said [21:49:37] HI MARYBELLE [21:49:43] Where's Anne-Marie? [21:52:26] harej: RIP, Annemarie. [21:52:38] You should use the "Annemarie" handle again [21:52:42] :( [21:57:28] bah [21:57:35] did I mess up the timezones again? [21:57:59] God aharoni [21:58:04] Get it together man