“It’s not the Destination, It’s the journey.”
~ Ralph Waldo

It’s been less than a month but this community has really grown on me. The past few weeks have been really eventful. A huge shoutout to my mentor, Željko for giving me the best on-boarding experience ever! (📣 You can checkout his blog on GSoC here.) In this short span, I got to meet the entire QTE & Release Engineering team. I also gained a new sense of professionalism and a clearer view of what it meant to be working as a community! 💜

Week 3 and 4 (19th-1st June)

Of all the past and upcoming weeks, this one is always going to be my favourite. I had my first commits merged. 🎉

Highlights:

• Learnt more about Željko’s coding process and debugging.
• Completed implemenation in the ContentTranslation repository
• Completed implemenation in the WikibaseCirrusSearch repository
• Met the entire team at the QTE sync meeting
• Attended the Test Stratergy by RiskStorming with TestSphere, a part of the EngProd virtual offsite micro hackathon.
  You can learn more about RiskStorming With TestSphere here. 💡 Bonus points to Željko for the creative set-up! ✨
  A little bit more about the Hackathon since I absolutely loved it-
  What we tested:
  1. The Death Star (I wish I was a Star Wars fan to actually understand more of what was going on 😅)
     ✔ Quality aspects picked: Functionality, Testability, Operations, Resource Management, Disaster Control, Security and Permissions, Performance
  2. Wikipedia Donation Banners
     ✔ Quality aspects picked: Accessibility, Internationalization, User-friendliness, Performance, Security and Permissions, Concurrency
• Completed Implementation in MediaWiki/core.
• Completed Implementation in FileImporter repository.
• Completed Implementation in Newsletter repository.
• Completed Implementation in ORES repository.
• Completed Implementation in AbuseFilter repository.
  I faced a few problems upgrading this repo including a database error in setting up the enivornment for this repo locally. A suggested solution was to delete the existing container and create a new one since it is way easier than finding the problem in the existing one!
  “Treat containers like cattle not pets."
  ~ Željko Filipin
  By far the greatest analogy I’ve ever heard! 😬
• I always wondered how networking was possible if you are working remotely.
  —–(Enters the WaterCooler 🚰)—–
  A little more context, a WaterCooler is a meet wherein the team gathers to just talk about things other than work. A great initiative to learn more about each other and take some time off work. I really enjoyed it!
  The Analogy: At a workplace, sometimes when you head out to get a glass of water, you might run into a co-worker and y’all catch-up with each other’s life. The WaterCooler meet aims to do just that.
• You can find my meeting notes here! 📃

The coding period is officially going to begin! I’m really looking forward to working on the advanced repositories, hopefully it goes well. 💁
See you in two weeks! 🍻