Talk:Wikimedia Performance Team/Archive 1
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Naming and scope
I am proposing adjusting the name and scope of the team.
Proposal
- Extend the charter of the Performance team to Performance and Availability, with a focus on site scalability, availability and performance of Wikimedia sites.
What this expanded team will do
- Identify and correct significant risks to the availability and performance of the Wikimedia sites, either by itself or in co-operation with other teams.
What this team will not do
- Initiate product-related improvements to the MediaWiki platform
- Support third-party use of MediaWiki (with technical support, improved packaging, etc.)
Core metrics
- Site performance, particularly time to first paint and time to save an edit
- Uptime
Rationale
The Performance team is already a de facto Performance and Availability team. Recent projects have included:
- fixing the backlogged job queue;
- diagnosing HHVM-related memory leaks;
- contributing etcd support to PyBal, the load balancer;
- automating legacy code deprecation in MediaWiki;
- writing Puppet modules for Apache, Redis, and HHVM
- instrumenting MediaWiki internals and creating dashboards for key metrics
Ongoing projects include: - revamping and modernizing the image rendering stack; and - readying MediaWiki’s codebase for multi-datacenter deployment.
The existing Performance team contributes non-performance related features that enhance the availability and scalability of Wikimedia sites. Implementing this proposal would formalize a slightly expanded scope and raise the visibility of the team inside and outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. It will demonstrate the Foundation's dedication and focus to a core task: keeping Wikipedia and her sister sites up and running to the community.
Financial impact
Implementing this proposal would formalize the scope of an existing team without any headcount additions.
I invite comments and feedback about this proposal. --Ori Livneh (talk) 01:11, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
- LGTM! --GDubuc (WMF) (talk) 15:24, 9 March 2016 (UTC)