[05:34:54] Niharika: I think it should be srishakatux ! [18:21:51] qgil: I added you to a Phabricator chat thread. Can you see the past discussion? [18:22:02] Niharika: strange that Outreachy rules are lax as I never thought :o [18:22:47] they are more strict than this to check if students are 'taking less than half the total credits any other student in their sem takes' [18:22:50] tonythomas: I don't approve. Lax = students getting away without doing any work. :/ Sets a bad precedent. [18:22:58] haha, yeah! [18:23:50] They should rethink their goals for the program. If at the end of the day they are just concerned with paying the students, I'd be worried about our continued association with the program. [18:23:52] Niharika: me too. By the way - I was telling srishakatux that we should have a common IRC channel for GSoC/Outreachy interns from where public weekly meetings should happen [18:24:06] maybe even in this channel - but there would be loads of clutter [18:24:18] tonythomas: Yeah, that's a good idea. [18:24:37] This channel is barely used anyway. :P At least some mentors hangout here which is good. [18:24:56] Nice. it really worked out during our Newsletter extension as well [18:25:15] Yeah. :) tonythomas How close are we to getting it on enwiki? [18:25:23] * tonythomas hides [18:25:30] did someone say production ? [18:26:48] Niharika: btw - we are close enough once we have stuff in 'Minor Sec Issues' at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115095#3004776 fixed up [18:26:57] last time I checked -we have just one left - which has a patch in review [18:27:17] is there a way I can check if there are any MW hackathons going on anywhere in this world ? [18:27:36] I could contact the organizers and give the around 20 bugs there so that the participants could hack upon [18:27:49] cannot find an easy method to fix this things up :/ [18:36:31] tonythomas: Dunno about hackathons list. But YAY about newsletter being close enough for production deploy. :D [18:36:51] Part of the problem about just giving away the bug list is that they might need some help setting up the thing. [18:37:08] tonythomas: If any of them seem easy or small, tag them as easy. [18:37:18] We're slowly attracting GSoC hopefuls. [18:37:19] Niharika: actually all of them are one liners [18:37:31] Oh good. Tag them all as easy. [18:37:34] I was thinking of making GSoC mentors throw away them as micro tasks as well [18:37:43] the thing is we do not even have individual tasks related to those bugs [18:37:48] Yeah, we could do that. [18:37:51] as they are tiny and irritating :/ [18:37:54] ah. right [18:38:11] Oh. How did you think of communicating them to students? :P [18:45:19] Niharika: well - we can make mentors communicate that to approaching students, right ? [18:45:31] afaik, mentors are the one who should be providing microtasks [18:46:23] tonythomas: Right but you do need them written down, the bugs i.e. Maybe one tracking task for small bugs if not individual ones. [18:46:37] right :/ we need them on phab [18:46:43] Yup. [19:16:10] Niharika: well - never thought that github commit view just show master by default :/ what a mess [19:16:32] anyway - the code to that strange branch is of nothing good either afaik. [19:16:57] but I cannot judge as I am not sure what the patchsets are about. [19:20:28] tonythomas: What are you talking about? Anna's code? [19:20:34] Niharika: yup! [19:20:42] Ah. [19:21:09] tonythomas: Link? [19:21:37] Niharika: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/conpherence/485/#8725 [19:21:48] (maintaining confidentiality) [20:09:35] andre__: qgil: If either of you are around, your thoughts on the chat would be appreciated. [20:14:47] * qgil reads [20:18:55] I don't have much (or anything) to add. I will be meeting @srishakatux on Monday, if there is still something that needs solving. [20:25:00] and I feel I'm not deep enough into the topic :( Sorry to not be much of help :( [20:31:14] I feel like the discussion has reached an impasse of sorts. [20:31:21] No worries. [20:37:52] It looks like evolving? Is there a tight deadline or something to rush now (before Monday, I mean) Niharika [20:38:29] qgil: I don't think so. [20:38:59] There is a good chance that a solution will be found during the weekend by mentors / org admins [20:39:09] Yeah.