Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Year

This is the 201516 Fiscal Year overview for the WMF Release Engineering team. See all of WMF Engineering at Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Q1 Goals.

Q1

All tracked in: #releng-201516-q1 - More details at Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q1

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
STRENGTHEN Isolate our Continuous Integration instances	boot instances from OpenStack API - task T109913 -  Done subset of jobs run in disposable instances - task T109914 -  Done	Operations / WMF Labs	EOQ	Done
FOCUS Improve deployment tooling	Implement the needed features in scap for RESTBase deploys - task T113119 -  Done	Services / Operations	EOQ	Partially done
FOCUS Migrate Gerrit to Differential	Allow repository cloning from Phabricator - task T128 - Partially done Prototype integration with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T103127 - Partially done	(small) Operations	EOQ	Partially done

Q2

All tracked in: #releng-201516-q2 - More details at Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q2

Key Performance Indicators

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
STRENGTHEN Reduce CI wait time Wait time KPI	CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves - task T111106 -  Done Migrate majority of CI jobs to Nodepool - task T114315 python tox - task T119141 -  Done ruby rake - task T119142 -  Done javascript npm - task T119143 - N Not done	Operations / WMF Labs	EOQ	N Not done
FOCUS Reduce number of deploy tools from 3 to 2	Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - task T109926	Services / Operations	EOQ	N Not done
FOCUS Retire Gerrit and Gitblit in favor of Phabricator	Decommission Gitblit - task T111465 - N Not done Code review RFC: creation, publication, discussion, feedback etc - task T114311 -  Done	(small) Operations / DevRel	EOQ	N Not done
FOCUS Release MediaWiki 1.26	A quality MW 1.26 successfully released - task T110486	WMF Engineering MW Technical Community	Mid-Nov	Done

Q3

All tracked in: #releng-201516-q3 - More details at Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q3

Key Performance Indicators

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
STRENGTHEN Consolidate deploy tools	Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313	Operations	EOQ	N Not done
FOCUS Retire Gerrit in favor of Phabricator	Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31 Shepherd the RFC - task T119908 Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320 -  Done Stretch: Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")	WMF Engineering MW Tech community	EOQ	N Not done
STRENGTHEN Reduce CI wait time Wait time KPI	Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138 php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139 as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140 javascript npm jobs - task T119143	Operations (minimal)	EOQ	N Not done

Q4

All tracked in: #releng-201516-q4 - More details at Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q4

Objective	Key result	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Metric	Status
Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0	Migrate remaining services to scap3 Services Team owned services and MW - task T109926 All other services - task T129290	Services team Any teams that have deployed services	Chad Dan Mukunda Tyler	EOQ	The number of services using scap3	N Not done
Retire Gerrit in favor of Differential	Done - Initial documentation and workflow explanation - task T117058  Done - Phase 1 repository migration - task T130418  Done - Spec out needed glue for Differential to Gearman to Nodepool - task T130949	WMF Engineering MW Tech community	Chad Mukunda Antoine	EOQ	The number of repositories actively using Differential instead of Gerrit.	Done
End to End test language expansion	Done - Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. - task T108874 Prototype new JS framework. - task T131121  Done - Send out user satisfaction survey. - task T131123	none	Dan Zeljko	EOQ	Nothing for this quarter	N Not done