Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201617Q1

Objective	Key result	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status	KPI (if applicable)
Phase out Ubuntu Precise	N Not done - Replace primary production Continuous Integration host (`gallium`) - task T95757 Done - Upgrade Phabricator database servers to Maria10/Jessie - task T138460 Done - Upgrade Beta Cluster database servers to Maria10/Jessie - task T138778 Done - Move Gerrit off of ytterbium - task T125018	Operations	Gallium Lead: Antoine Tyler Zeljko Phabricator Lead: Mukunda Beta Cluster Lead: Dan Mukunda Gerrit Lead: Chad	EOQ	Partially done	Three fewer production Ubuntu Precise production machines (and two fewer Beta Cluster hosts).
Reduce Technical Debt	Perform a technical debt analysis of software and services maintained by WMF Release Engineering - task T138225	None	Lead: Greg Everyone	EOQ	Done	By the end of Q1 WMF Release Engineering will have a prioritized list of technical debt work that should be done. This will allow us to prioritize this work accordingly alongside our other user-requested work in the future.
Streamline deployments (Train 2.0)	Stretch goal Convert our production deployment strategy to use long-lived branches - task T89945	TechOps for any needed caching changes. MediaWiki expertise for the needed changes to MW internals.	Lead: Mukunda Chad Tyler	EOQ	N Not done	By the end of Q1 deployments will be made from long-lived branches versus week-specific ones.