User:KSmith (WMF)/Technology planned program work Q1
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| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 | 1 | Release_Engineering with Operations, Services, Discovery, Cloud Services |
Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290 |
| 1 | 2 | Performance with Operations |
Follow-up bugfixes and improvements after Thumbor deployment to production - T121388 |
| 1 | n/a | Technical_Operations with Finance, Legal, Partnerships | Continue Asia Cache PoP procurement, installation, and configuration tasks
Finish up trailing purchasing tasks from previous quarter (DC, hardware, network links, etc). Procure at least one transit or peering link to help advance address space issue Physically install all hardware Acquire address space & communicate it to Wikipedia Zero partners (via the Zero team) Turn up network links (stretch) Configure network devices and hosts (stretch) |
| 1 | n/a | Technical_Operations with Release Engineering, WMCS | Remove Salt from our infrastructure
Port debdeploy to Cumin Migrate the reimage script to Cumin Remove support for the Trebuchet deployment system Remove Salt from production & WMCS |
| 1 | n/a | Technical_Operations with Release Engineering | Prepare for Puppet 4
Support directory environments in our Puppet infrastructure and add an environment that uses Puppet's future parser Switch at least 3 node groups to the future parser environment Force both current and future parser for every test in the puppet-compiler Integrate puppet-compiler with the Continuous Integration infrastructure (task T166066) (stretch) Speed up CI for operations/puppet (task T166888) and add future parser validation |
| 1 | n/a | Technical_Operations | Improve database backups' coverage, monitoring and data recovery time (part 1)
Adjust configuration management manifests to support MariaDB multi-instances Migrate at least 2 instances on 1 dbstore host to the new multi-instance setup Research backup storage options and prepare a design document Investigate and experiment with replacements of mysqldump |
| 2 | 2 | Performance with Operations |
Test user performance from Asia to validate changes when the Asia Cache goes live - T169180 |
| 2 | 3 | Performance |
Rework NavigationTiming metrics to make them stackable - T104902 Add metrics for master queries on HTTP GET/HEAD - T166199 |
| 2 | n/a | Performance with Release Engineering |
Preload base module requests T164299 Upgrade to jQuery 3 T124742 |
| 3 | 1 | Analytics_Engineering with Ops |
Bootstrap the new Kafka cluster (hardware refresh) with an upgraded version and TLS encryption and access control lists support. task T152015 STRETCH: switch the Varnishkafka cache misc configuration to the new cluster and enable TLS authentication for it. |
| 3 | 3 | Analytics_Engineering with Ops |
Hadoop health monitoring (add newer ones like default rack, corrupted blocks, etc..): task T166140 Prep work for Eventlogging databases refresh (OS install, racking..) task T156844 STRETCH: Stats for Vanishkafka errors: task T164259 |
| 4 | 1 | Cloud_Services | Define a metric to track OpenStack system availability |
| 4 | 2 | Cloud_Services | Create a detailed migration plan for implementing Neutron as our OpenStack SDN layer |
| 5 | m1 | Release_Engineering with All developers, Notably: Wikidata, CirrusSearch |
Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740
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| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | n/a | MediaWiki_Platform |
Hire product manager Develop MediaWiki roadmap |
| 2 | n/a | MediaWiki_Platform |
MimeAnalyzer improvements (T155320) Namespaceization (T166010) |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Cloud_Services | Plan contract documentation work |
| 5 | 1 | CTO with Technical Collaboration | Decide on Dev Summit event location, dates, theme, deadlines, etc. and publicize the information |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 + 2 | 1 + 1 | Scoring_platform with Operations, Community Engagement |
Deploy thresholds selection system (T162217) Deploy advanced support for Albanian and Romanian Wikipedias and basic support for Greek & Tamil Wikipedia Design schema for meta ORES (T153152) Report on implementations of meta ORES (T166053) |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 + 2 | Technical_Operations with Release Engineering, Services |
Implement a pod networking policy approach
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| 2 | 2 | Release_Engineering with Operations, Services |
Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions - task T170482 Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests - task T170483 |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Analytics_Engineering with Cloud Services |
(carry on from last quarter) Initial deployment of wikistats 2.0 UI task T160370 Start development of a new backend and API on top of the Data Lake Edit data in Hadoop. task T156384 |
| 1 | 1 | Analytics_Engineering with Cloud Services |
Add Edit count to Data Lake. task T156384 STRETCH: Add meta data about data lake calculations task T155507 |
| 1 | 2 | Analytics_Engineering | Spike: load data in superset, test and productionize if pertainstask T166689 |
| 1 | 3 | Analytics_Engineering with Ops | Deprecate socket.IO RC feed and help clients migrate (by July 7th) task T156919 |
| 2 | 1 | Services with Operations | Start gradual roll-out of Cassandra 3 & new schema to resolve storage scaling issues and OOM errors. |
| 3 | 1 | Cloud_Services | Begin migrating customer-facing Dumps endpoints to Cloud Services |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Performance with Operations |
Enable HTTPS for swift clients (MediaWiki) - T160616 Enable HTTPS for mariadb clients (MediaWiki) - T134809 Install and use mcrouter in deployment-prep - T151466 |
| 1 | 3 | MediaWiki_Platform with Ops |
etcd MW config (T156924) |
| 2 | 1 | Services with Operations, Analytics | Begin migrating job queue processing to multi-DC enabled eventbus infrastructure.
Implement ChangeProp deduplication and rate limiting. Start migrating job queue use cases. |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 | 1 | Research with External collaborators (Bob, Michele, Tiziano) |
Clean up the category system for machine consumption (this has been the focus for the past few months and we are very close to have a solution) Start surfacing recommendations to collect feedback from editathon organizers |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Cloud_Services | Manage shared tool accounts via Striker |
| 2 | 1 | Cloud_Services | Perform initial Cloud Services rebranding |
| 3 | 1 | Cloud_Services | Attend Wikimania to support and promote Cloud Services products with the Wikimedia communities |
| 4 | 1 | Cloud_Services | Hire first line technical support contractor |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 + 2 | Research with External collaborators (Bob and Jerome) |
Create one or more formal collaborations for this research (T166085) Perform a literature review and potentially run survey(s) to identify the self-reported causes of imbalanced representation in contribution Initiate the design of a framework to address one of the identified/hypothesized causes of imbalance in contributor demographics, if time permits. (Stretch) Run a couple of quick surveys to get a better sense of where in the pipeline we start loosing diversity. (Stretch) |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 + 2 | Search_platform with Analytics, Operations, Community Engagement | Quarterly Objective 1:
Perform load and A/B tests on new models to make sure they can be safely deployed to production When ready, deploy newly automated models which match (at a minimum) current performance of manually-configured search result relevance Quarterly Objective 2: Perform research spikes to find new analyzers for different languages Test new analyzers to see if they are improvements (Japanese and Vietnamese) Deploy new / updated analyzers
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| 1 | n/a | Search_platform with Analysis team, Operations, WMDE | Quarterly Objective 3:
Work on expanding category search in the Wikidata Query Service, while also collecting SPARQL statistics. |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 | n/a | Fundraising_Tech with Ingenico (external vendor) | Continue Ingenico intergration |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 | n/a | Fundraising_Tech with Major Gifts feedback | Time box work on Civi duplicate records |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 | 2 | Security with TBD | Update MediaWiki security release process and tooling
Implement continuous integration of security patches Transfer knowledge from Release Engineering Develop regular release regimen |
| 2 | 2 & 3 | Analytics_Engineering with Ops |
Audit existing stat/analytics shell accounts and incorporate expiration dates, make all accounts compliant with "time restricted access" stat1002/3 replacement task T152712 To do Revamp docs for access to data (carry on from last quarter) Data purging for Eventlogging task T156933 |
| Outcome | Objective | Teams | Work |
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| 1 + 2 | n/a | MediaWiki_Platform with Ops (DBA) |
Actor table (T167246) development substantially complete, ready for deployment Comment table (T166732) development substantially complete, ready for deployment De-globalize EditPage.php (T144366) Narrow AbuseFilter interface EditPage backend (T157658) |
| 2 | n/a | Research |
Develop interview protocol interview 6-8 GLAM stakeholders Share initial user stories and research themes at Structured Data offsite |
| n/a | n/a | Search_platform with Operations, WMDE | Quarterly Objective 1:
Commons search extended to support search via structured data for media Quarterly Objective 2: Advanced search will be updated to support more specific media search filters |