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Charles Fishman wrote a terrific article They write the right stuff. [1] for Fast Company magazine in 1996 about the "on-board shuttle group" that works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX producing some of the most sophisticated and error-free software in the world.

We'll try to focus on some best practices and quality metrics - especially as it relates to MediaWiki.


Cliff notes for process at WMF

Code Health - project

MediaWiki Code_Health

The Codehealth Pipeline is part of the continuous integration process, and invokes SonarScanner which send results to SonarCloud (by "SonarQube" a product of SonarSource github).

A list of the extensions / repos that are currently scanned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321837

Dashboards

The WMF organization account on SonarCloud is at https://sonarcloud.io/organizations/wmftest/projects Individual repos are like https://sonarcloud.io/project/overview?id=mediawiki-extensions-DiscussionTools

Code Health Group - paused, planned to restart in 2024

Code_Health_Group/Quality_Big_Picture

Workboard in Phabricator

  1. Fishman, C. (2017, September 8). They write the right stuff. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff