Re: [teampractices] Make a tag for quarterly goals?

2015-07-01 Thread James Douglas
+googol On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm creating epics to track the Discovery Department Q1 2015-16 goals https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q1_Goals#Discovery, and thought it might be useful to track organisation-wide

Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

2015-06-09 Thread James Douglas
aricha...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:25 AM, James Douglas jdoug...@wikimedia.org wrote: A team should review their open patchsets before writing new code. +1, this is a great way to remind ourselves to focus on priorities. While in principle I agree with this notion, I

Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

2015-06-09 Thread James Douglas
...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 9 June 2015 at 09:44, James Douglas jdoug...@wikimedia.org wrote: Wouldn't that a misprioritization? In a literal sense, yes. However, as the curators and owners of an open source project, we have a responsibility to review code contributed by our volunteers

Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

2015-06-09 Thread James Douglas
Exactly. And thus a team prioritizing Bar might continue coding on Bar, allowing the queue of pending Foo code reviews to pile up. Bingo! On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Kevin Smith ksm...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:10 PM, James Douglas jdoug...@wikimedia.org wrote

Re: [teampractices] Code review before writing new code

2015-06-08 Thread James Douglas
A team should review their open patchsets before writing new code. +1, this is a great way to remind ourselves to focus on priorities. This is also basic product management; if I'm working on B while the patch for A sits around unused, I'm implying that B is a higher priority than A. That may

Re: [teampractices] Tracking team member calendars?

2015-05-26 Thread James Douglas
I think we can do this with Google Calendar, in the same way that other shared calendars (e.g. WMF Engineering) work. I haven't set one up before, but surely it can be done. On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Kevin Smith ksm...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, Do we have any best practices for