Roadmap

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Background: In recent years, Wikimedia Foundation's engineering planning has primarily taken place in a combination of internal goals documents and public project-level documentation. The purpose of this page is to establish a practice of sharing holistic engineering goals, initially primarily with a short term horizon, as a public document with open participation.

See also:

See also:

reate a roadmap more focused on point releases of the MediaWiki software

Previous months:

Item syntax:

  • [Qualifier keyword] Action item [Owner(s)] [Completion keyword]

Examples:

  • [Needs consensus] Deploy unicorns [Brion/Tim]
  • Deploy unicorns [Brion/Tim] [DONE]

Contents

[edit] February 2012

[edit] Platform / Dev-Ops

  • Git conversion
    • Final conversion on core
    • Final conversion on extensions
    • Finish up specific Git management scripts
    • Deployment scripts
      • CI tests get run when a developer submits a change (or maybe when the change is approved -- this is TBD)
    • Jenkins (Testswarm/PHPUnit tests) on git branches
    • documentation tasks
      • some basic pointers for learning about git
      • document the overall dev process (this is in people's heads right now but not on any wiki page)
      • document how, from a technical perspective, git, Gerrit and Jenkins work together
      • document how to use the tools (git-review, Gerrit, Jenkins)
        • labsconsole has some stuff in this direction but not enough
  • Log collection (udp2log) improvement [Tim]
    • Deployment to locke in January
  • Swift
    • 100% deployment for thumbnails [Aaron/Ben/Mark B]
      • BEFORE 1.19 deployment.
      • Thumbnail response to end-users will work by hitting squids, falling back to swift, falling back to ms5, falling back to image scalers.
      • Thumbnail purging will work as it does now except swift will be purged via a MediaWiki hook.
  • Wikipedia operations history+architecture document [Guillaume]
  • New server error page (currently "Wikimedia Foundation error") [Guillaume]
  • 1.19 deploy (from SVN)
    • Postmortem 1.19 after the 1.19 deployment [RobLa]
    • SVN import, post-release/deployment make read-only switch
  • Begin developing framework for integration testing [Antoine, Chris McMahon]
    • possibly Selenium
  • Search: possible contractor to do search upgrade (diederik's lucene person)

[edit] Analytics

  • Mobile Page Views: refactor Nimish's code, incorporate fixes causing discrepancy between Nimish and Erik's code
  • Report card prototype: first release

[edit] Features

  • NPP/Article Creation
    • Article Creation Interstitial: deploy first release
    • New Page Triage: Develope initial workflow and designs
  • AFT
    • Decide on "winner": Preliminary discussion with community [1/20]
    • Design and development of first version of Feedback Page, using data from test versions of Feedback Form [Delayed to 1/31]
  • Moodbar/FeedBack Dashboard
    • Feature Evaluation [Dario]
    • Concurrency notification: [1/31]
  • RL2/Gadgets improvements deployed with MW 1.19 (dependent on Rel 1.19 schedule)
    • [in progress; to be deployed with some time after Rel 1.19]
  • Enable chunked uploading support in Upload Wizard
  • TMH deployment (after Rel 1.19 is released)
  • Personal Image Filter development presumed to begin, may be done via vendor development. Support third party block lists instead of categories?
    • I18n
      • Work on universal language selection UI will start in Feb 2012
      • Additional translate extension improvements [2/2012]
  • Visual Editor
    • Editable Surface feature additions ongoing
    • First iteration of minimal round trip functionality [2/2012]
    • Content Editable feature parity with ES feature set [2/2012]
    • IME functionality development and integration [2/2012]

[edit] Mobile

(heavy traveling for mobile team)

  • Full screen search to production [holding]
  • Product plan (UI, use cases) for Mobile Uploads: Initial workflow
  • Product plan (UI, use cases) for Mobile Nav: Enumerate use cases, develop first pass of navigational constructs
    • Login, User pref, etc (features TBD)
  • UI mockups for full screen search
  • UI mockups for opt in beta
  • Wikipedia Android V1.1
  • Wikipedia Mobile iOS (PhoneGap) release V3.1/1.1 [Yuvi & Brion]
  • De-Wikimedify Mobile frontend [Arthur]

[edit] Operations

  • Squid deployment @ Eqiad
    • Target at least 50% of non-EU traffic
  • EQIAD datacenter new row of racks [ordered, in progress]
  • External storage recompression [Ben/Tim]
  • Thumbnail server replacement - Back-end (ms5) [Ben]
  • db refresh (s1 to s7)[Asher]
  • ESAM router replacement (from Foundary to Juniper)
  • /home move to NetApp [Mark] [in progress]
  • Deploy Labs Gluster File storage cluster [Ryan/Sara]
  • Test effectiveness of Flash Drive [Asher]
  • Labs features rollout
    • Build out LVS in Labs [Ryan/Mark]
    • Create squid instance in Labs [Ryan/Sara]
    • Add resilience to Lab Controller service by building redundant Controller services in EQIAD which includes DNS, LDAP, MySQL [Sara]


[edit] March 2012

[edit] Platform

  • Interwiki transclusion [Sam(, Roan?)]
  • Swift originals work
  • Prepare IPv6 support for IPv6 day (June 6th) [Aaron,Mark?]
    • rc_ip schema change to be lumped into 1.19 schema changes
  • DB sharding for Disk-backed object cache
  • Git conversion
    • First release from git mainline development branch
  • Superprotection feature (notes to be copied to wiki somewhere by RobLa or Tim) [Sam?]
  • Inline scripting

[edit] Mobile / Offline

  • Photo Upload
  • Nav Menu
  • AFT
  • Android/iOS V2.0

[edit] Features

  • Continued work on NPP: first deployment of revised workflow for page triage
  • Potential deployment of AFT to broader list of articles on enwp

[edit] April 2012

[edit] Features

  • Visual Editor: Small scale production/default deployment of visual editor

[edit] May 2012

  • General engineering process checkin (Berlin?)
  • Config backend [Chad]
    • Evaluate WikiFactory from Wikia

[edit] June 2012

[edit] Mobile / Offline

  • First MobileFrontend feature related to mobile uploads (e.g. media upload beta).

[edit] Platform

  • Prepare IPv6 support for IPv6 day (June 6th)

[edit] July 2012 and later, or unscheduled

[edit] Mobile / Offline

  • USSD gateway rollout
  • SMS gateway rollout
  • Varnish as default cache for Mobile
  • New article creation
  • Watchlists
  • Diffs
  • Search improvements
  • Kiwix on Android
  • Partner integration (various)
  • Lazy loading articles
    • reduce bandwidth requirements for some users
  • WikipediaZero

[edit] Features

  • Affiliation tools for WikiProjects [build on GlobalProfile]
  • Re-energize LiquidThreads (rename it?!) (may need refactoring for notification streams)
  • Photo/media moderation tools; additional patrolling and moderation tooling
  • Help features
  • Mentoring features
  • Other real-time features, chat
  • Dependent on MediaWiki 1.20 deployment date, ResourceLoader 2 -- mostly the Gadgets-extension work which is (as of Feb 2012) in a branch.
    • Gadgets 2.0?

[edit] Platform / Dev-Ops

  • Extension management -- depends on config mgmt revamp

[edit] Continuous Responsibilities

  • Code review
  • RT review / ops tasks
  • Community extension review and deployment
  • Bug triages and general bug fixes
  • New extension deployment (Review queue)
  • Labs maintenance
  • Test infrastructure maintenance

[edit] Parking lot and todos

  • Database-backed session handling
  • HipHop deployment (deferred because Facebook has a different shiny new thing)
  • Extension:Configure (merge with config management?)
  • Unicode normalization considerations
  • Schema handling improvements (Abstracted database schema description, schema updaters to make the multiple schema variants for MySQL 4.0 and 5/UTF-8 more maintainable)
  • Parallelizable, restartable dump runner (notes; Clean up the currently fragile externaldump process, make our internal backups more reliable
  • OAI cleanup (Clean up OAI exporter and importer, add time-delay features
    • audit users of OAIPMH and check how search indexing uses it
  • Deletion queue system (notes; Human-helpful process improvements
  • Integrated heuristic checks, improved patrolling (human-helpful process improvements)
  • On-wiki namespace manager (Special:Namespaces) (original wikidata branch specs and see notes)
  • Wikidata (WMDE)
  • BlameMaps (WMDE)
  • graphical UI on top of improved backend for configuration management
  • Various HTTPS support fixes
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