The 2014-2015 quarterly goals are defined by the following drivers:
- Provide the third party MediaWiki users with MediaWiki tarball release management, support, and advocacy
- Implement lightweight environmental scan
- Build up a user group
- Develop a developer community
| Quarter |
Goals
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| Jul–Sep 2014 |
- Release management and support
- Improve Quality Testing for Extensions and Older Release Branches
- Figure out if we are shipping out right version of extension
- Security and maintenance releases as needed
- Advocacy
- Meet with Mozilla at Wikimania
- Maintain dialogue with users and developers
- Mediate Composer dialogue at Wikimania and on RfC
- SMWCon in Vienna
- New Formats of distribution: Develop understanding of Docker, Puppet, and Vagrant
- User Group
- Promote and buildup user group
- Initial meeting at Wikimania 2014, London
- Have regular meetings
- Initiate application for recognition for MediaWiki Cooperation
- Mentor Google Summer of Code 2014 student, Adiyta Chaturvedi
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| Oct–Dec 2014 |
- Release management and support
- Major release 1.24 on November 26, 2014
- Security and maintenance releases as needed
- Assume responsibility for security announcements for extensions as needed
- Document processes
- Reach out to WMF QA about testing extensions
- Work with volunteer to publicize 1.24 for users
- Advocacy
- Maintain dialogue with users and developers
- Lead discussion about extension management
- Scheduled presentation of what's new in MW 1.24 to enterprise user group in Houston, Texas
- Plan of action for environmental scan
- Release Team tasks:
- Use data from WikiApiary and wikistats.wmflabs.org to gain understanding of who third party customers are
- Compile a list of top requested features
- Compile a list of bug fixes
- Mentor Google Code-in 2014 students for the following tasks:
- Research inactive wikis from WikiApiary
- Fortune 1000
- Find unique wikis
- Look through mailing lists for mentions of requested features or pain points
- Student participation in discussion about important questions to include in customer survey
- MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
- Received recognition
- Promote and buildup user group
- SMWCon 2014 Vienna
- WikiCon 2014 Köln, Germany
- Provide list of interested individuals
- Group meetings
- 2014-10-17
- 2014-11-07
- Scheduled 2014-12-05
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| Jan–Mar 2015 |
- Release management and support
- Security and maintenance releases as needed
- Security announcements for extensions as needed
- Advocacy work
- Maintain dialogue with users and developers
- Lead discussion about extension management
- Developer Summit 2015, San Francisco, California
- Quarterly review
- Showcase preliminary results of environmental scan
- MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
- Promote and buildup user group
- Meetings
- Work with volunteers on tasks
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| Apr–Jun 2015 |
- Release management and support
- Major release 1.25.0 on May 27, 2015
- Security and maintenance releases as needed
- Security announcements for extensions as needed
- Advocacy work
- Maintain dialogue with users and developers
- Lead discussion about extension management
- Showcase environmental scan results
- MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
- Promote and buildup user group
- Have regular meetings
- Hackathon 2015, Lyon, France
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| July 2015 |
- Release management and support
- Advocacy work
- Environmental scan
- MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
- Wikimania 2015, Mexico City
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The release and user group work are organized through monthly sprints with quarterly reviews. Each quarter's work will progress towards the annual goals.
