Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201617Year

201617-Q1

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.

Objective	Key result	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status
Address Technical Debt	Continuous Integration Perform an assessment of the current state of CI and outline a plan a future composition without disrupting expected services and performance. - task T153155	Ops (advice)	Antoine (lead) Chad Dan Mukunda Tyler	EOQ	Done
Address Technical Debt	Deployment tooling (Train 2.0) Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1) Use a unified git repo for MW deploys - task T147478 Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing	Ops (puppet)	Chad Dan Mukunda Tyler (lead)	EOQ	Done
Release MediaWiki 1.28	A quality MediaWiki 1.28 is successfully released - task T148087	Wikimedia / MediaWiki dev community	Chad (lead) Tyler	End of November	Done

See also Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Project/Planning for more items that are not quarterly goals.

Objective	Key result	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status	Tech Goal Quad.
Train 2.0	Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 2) Build fanout support in scap3 - task T121276 Assess impact of moving to `scap deploy` for all parts	Operations	Chad (Lead) Tyler Mukunda Dan	EOQ	Done	C: Tech feature A: Annual goal
Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization (i.e., Deployment Pipeline)	Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270	WMF Labs Operations	Tyler (Lead) Antoine Dan	EOQ	N Not done	B: Customer goal C: Tech feature
Phabricator Improvements	Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator - task T146843	(Minimal) Discovery	Mukunda (Lead) Chad	EOQ	Done	D: Tech Debt

Objective	Key result	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status
Streamlined Services Delivery	Build a runnable image from tested and confirmed code that is suitable for promotion. define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container generate or consume a docker file for building build image, upload and tag it in docker registry	Ops: Docker registry k8s staging cluster to run images built via the above/our goal	Antoine Dan Tyler (Lead)	EOQ	Done
Train 2.0	Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 3) Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - task T104352	Ops (maybe)	Chad Mukunda (Lead)	EOQ	N Not done
Release MediaWiki 1.29	A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271	Wikimedia / MediaWiki dev community	Chad Tyler (lead)	End of May	N Not done