Stewards/Coding/Group 10 24 12

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Wednesday, October 24 at 11 AM Pacific
• Video: David's vidyo room (use this link for guest access)
• Audio: If video doesn't work, call +1 800 707 2533, pin 369, conf 9634#
• Back channel: #mozillians

Agenda

• Review action items from last meeting

• Community dashboards
  • Dashboard of dashboards
    • Making Josh's mentored bugs graphs public
    • Making coding dashboards public (bug 771581)
  • Conversion funnel
    • Expanding Josh's conversion tracking
    • Next phases: Metrics team to adding Bugzilla data in Q4
  • Leverage ratio
    • Adding leverage ratio to coding dashboards (bug 783038)
  • Exploring uses for Metrics API (bug 729703)

• Job descriptions
  • Next steps: Talk with Benjamin Smedberg about open issues
  • Coding Community Manager
  • Education Community Manager
  • B2G Community Manager (need to write a job description?)

• Goal setting
  • Q4: The goal for the Coding Stewards group is to increase the community building capacity for the Firefox OS project from low to medium
  • 2013: Can investigate using leverage calculations as goal in addition to or replacing community building capacity measurements

• Firefox OS contribution hurdles
  • Challenges Getting Started with Gaia
  • Identifying other hurdles

• Dealing with long waits for code review
  • Have nag emails sent to relevant module owner and peer too, email person requesting review, post to bug?
  • patch wait time dashboard to be monitored by coding community builder?

• Coding Community Tools
  • What Can I Do For Mozilla?
    • Creating a promo and finding places to promote it on Mozilla sites like MDN and other sites like Stackoverflow (bug 775771)
  • Bugs Ahoy
  • Mach
    • Are we able to see how this has helped people in the conversion metrics we have?

• Rewards process for contributors
  • Defining recognition points on path (see Webdev recognition points)
  • Mentored bug for creating gear nominations to use at gear.mozilla.org
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Stewards/Coding/Rewards

Place holders

• Academic institutions
  • Move forward with just mailing list: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/education
  • Clean up references to Google Groups and newsgroup versions of forum that aren't linked anymore
  • Any next steps with student-project keyword?
  • Creating a case study that would promote this work and make it easier to duplicate?

• Using community dashboards
  • Measure effectiveness of first patch approved email when conversion tracking in place
  • Contributor survey once we have information about conversion path