Stewards/Coding/Group 01 30 13

Meeting Details

• Meeting time: Wednesday, January 30 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: #planning

Agenda

• Action items from last meeting

• Welcome to Mike Hoye
  • For reference, some possible project ideas we have discussed previously: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/CommunityManagerProjects

• Community dashboards
  • Adding contributors to release notes for next Firefox release
    • https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2013/01/08/firefox-18-new-contributors/
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiMUukRUspH3dFd1Q3U0SjltbzdVT0FBUEdQbFFMVGc#gid=0
  • Next steps with Kyle's review charts -- split out R- and R+ and compare time from R+ to closing bug fixed
    • • https://metrics.mozilla.com/bugzilla-analysis/Community_NextReviews.html
      • https://metrics.mozilla.com/bugzilla-analysis/Community_Retention.html
      • Measure effectiveness of patch approveded email: https://projects.mozilla.org/browse/BA-90
  • Other dashboards items
    • Patch size vs. review time -- patch data to be added to Bugzilla Anthropology
    • Mentored bugs graphs
    • Conversion tracking
    • Leverage ratio
    • Metrics API (bug 729703)
    • Enhancements for patch dashboards in Metrics' goals for Q1
  • New ideas to discuss
    • New contributor dashboards/metrics for portions of the tree (eg. gfx/, dom/, whatever)
    • Get engineers to tag nontrivial bugs with common annotation (eg. [complex]). Write a tool that watches for successful resolution of these bugs and adds assignee to list of promising contributors.

• Contacting contributors who stop contributing
  • Can we segment who we reach out to? People who made one patch vs. more than one patch?
  • What questions do we want to ask?

• Rewards process for contributors
  • jdm's prototype for contributor first patch notifier to feed into Gear Store for sending shirts
  • Webdev Stewards are creating a badge pilot meant as case study for other teams interested in badges
    • Regular discussions at 10:30 pacific if you'd like to learn more
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Stewards/Coding/Rewards

• 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?

• Coordinating with other contribution funnels
  • QA
  • Support? Others?

Place holders

• Screencasts
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/User:teoli/TestPopcorn - Building Firefox from scratch on Ubuntu

• Experiments
  • The mobile team is experimenting with posting a "featured bug" (http://lucasr.org/2012/12/07/featured-bug-1-in-firefox-for-android/)

• 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?

Action Items

• Mike to talk to Kyle, Seif and Josh about leveraging the community metrics work they've done

• Mike to look into the narrative behind a set of people who have made one patch and then left to inform what information we want to find out from that set of contributors

• Mike and David to connect about recognition efforts and report back to group