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We held our first AD&T meting of the new term on 22nd of January! The meeting was chaired by Elz, who is co-chairing this term along with Amelia.
We welcomed a whole bunch of new members along with several returning staffers. We have people who've been on AD&T for four years, and others who only joined the OTW a couple of months ago. One of the things we want to try to do this year is give people slightly more defined roles within AD&T, so that we can make the best possible use of everybody's talents. We're excited to be bringing some new people and skillsets on board.
2010 reviewed
We looked at back at our achievements from 2010, during which we rolled out icons, metatags, a new tag wrangling interface, all new archive CSS, username editing, challenge signups, assignments and matching, archive skins, work skins, advanced search, downloads, video embeds, sharing code, and kudos, among other things, and upgraded to Ruby 1.9, Rails 3, Unicorn and Nginx. We're proud of what we achieved and we're looking forward to seeing what we can get done in 2011.
News from the hiatus
We discussed everything that happened over the break, including the way we managed the work associated with hosting the Yuletide challenge, what we did well and what we can learn for next year. Yuletide a lot smoother than 2009, but there are still some improvements to be made.
New servers!
We have new servers arriving soon! You can read more about them in our New servers announcement and Meet the Machines. We'll be moving over to the new servers next week, and we'd love you all to join in helping us name them! Watch this space for more news.
Changes to our coding process
We're planning to move our code versioning system from subversion to git. This will make it easier for new coders to join, easier for coders to keep going without being hindered by code freezes, and easier for testers to have a regular schedule. We're hoping to deploy our current release in the next week or so, and then we'll move over.
Other business
We also decided on a few design queries, to clear up some old issues that were no longer relevant and to improve the layout of kudos.
News from our sister and sub-committees
- Coders are getting to grips with git in preparation for our move to the new system.
- Testers are getting starting with the first round of testing for the year, and getting stuck into some new training.
- Support have welcomed a bunch of new members and they are trying to catch up with answering ALL the tickets (there is a backlog from the hiatus - apologies if you have been waiting a little longer than usual for us to get back to you.
- Tag wranglers have been reviewing the wrangling team and making sure that all the fandoms on the Archive have some wrangling love.
If there are things you'd like to do or say, please share them in comments, via the AO3 support and feedback form, by volunteering, or in whatever medium you feel comfortable with. Everyone is welcome to this party!
This meeting round-up by new AD&T staffer Cesy!