Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201718Q2

Q1 Wikimedia Release Engineering Goals
FY201718Q2 (October - December)
Q3


#releng-201718-q2 (Phabricator project) -- All Technology team Q2 goals: Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q2

Annual Plan Program Annual Plan Outcome Milestone/Objectives Quarterly Work/Goal Tech Goal Dependency Team members ETA Status
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better. Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services (Traffic infrastructure, databases & storage, MediaWiki application servers, (micro)services, network, and miscellaneous sites & services) Work
  • workboard
  • Resolve some scap & git-fat technical debt.
  • Implement most-wanted features identified by users of scap.
D. Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals Technical Operations
  • Lead: Mukunda Modell
  • Chad Horohoe
Ongoing To do To do
Outcome 5: effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure Work
  • Docker-CI
    • A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
  • MW Nightlies
    • TBC
D. Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals Technical Operations, Cloud Services
  • Lead: Antoine Musso
Ongoing Yes Done
Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack Goal
  • Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)
C. Improve our own feature set

D: Tech Debt

All developers
  • Lead: Zeljko Filipin
EOQ Yes Done
Outcome 6: Engineering teams can effectively plan, track, and complete their work. Milestone 1: Maintain and improve existing shared code-review platform (Gerrit) Work
  • Ongoing maintenance and upgrades
D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals Technical Operations
  • Chad Horohoe
Ongoing In progress In progress
Milestone 2: Maintain and improve existing shared project management platform (Phabricator) Work
  • on-going work to move to modern hardware and cross-datacenter resiliency
D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals Technical Operations (Traffic)
  • Mukunda Modell
Ongoing Yes Done
Program 3: Addressing technical debt Outcome 1: The amount of orphaned code that is running Wikimedia “production” services is reduced. Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations) - task T174090 Goal
  • Objective 1.
B: Features we build for others

D: Tech Debt

Code Health Group
  • Lead: Jean-Rene Branna
  • Greg Grossmeier
EOQ Yes Done
Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091 Goal
  • Objective 2.
B: Features we build for others

D: Tech Debt

Code Health Group, Current and future code/product stewards End of Q3 To do To do
Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced.

Objective 1: Define a “Technical Debt Project Manager” role that regularly communicates with all Foundation engineering teams regarding their technical debt

Goal
  • Objective 1.
B: Features we build for others

D: Tech Debt

WMF Product Mangers (or similar) EOQ Yes Done

Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation

Goal
  • Objective 2.
B: Features we build for others

D: Tech Debt

End of Q3 To do To do
Program 6. Streamlined service delivery Outcome 2: Developers are able to develop and test their applications through a unified pipeline towards production deployment. Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to publish new versions of an application to production via testing and staging environments that reliably reproduce production Goal
  • Complete build phase of release pipeline
    Build phase of the chart
    • Build test variant
    • Run test entrypoint w/developer feedback - services dependency
    • Build production variant w/developer feedback - services dependency
    • Tag production container
    • Push to production docker registry - ops dependency - staging namespace
C. Improve our own feature set

D: Tech Debt

Technical Operations, Services
  • Lead: Tyler Cipriani
  • Dan
EOQ Yes Done