Wikimedia Technology/Annual Plans/FY2019/CDP2: Platform Evolution/CDP Budget Segment 7/Goals

=Program Goals and Status for FY18/19=

Segment 7 - Core Platform
 * Goal Owner: Corey Floyd
 * Program Goals for FY18/19: Empower the Wikimedia Foundation to accomplish its goals of Knowledge Equity and Knowledge as a Service by evolving and investing in our technology stack to improve its flexibility, maintainability, and sustainability
 * Annual Plan: Segment 7 - Core Platform
 * Primary Goal is Knowledge as a Service/Foundational Strength: Evolve our systems and structures

''Note: Segment 8 has been folded into Segment 7 (this page) as of the beginning of Q3 FY18/19



 = Q1 Goals =

Outcome 2 / Output 2.2
Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs
 * Modularized RESTBase

Primary team: Services

Goal(s)

 * Research, document and develop a specification for the storage API. ❌
 * Propose an RFC.

Status
July 2018

August 16, 2018
 * Spec for the storage API is still in progress.

September 19, 2018
 * ❌ This goal has been moved to Q2 work due to other issues having priority.



=Q2 Goals =

Outcome 2 / Output 2.3
Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs.
 * Session Management system

Dependencies on: Core Platform Team

Goal(s)

 * Define and implement a session management service.

Status
November 20, 2018 December 14, 2018
 * The RFC was approved last week and this portion is now ✅



=Q3 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1.2
Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it

Goal(s)
Develop 3-5 year road map.

This roadmap will include major platform goals such as initiatives around APIs, Storage, Parsing and other enabling technology improvements. It will also include short term refactoring work to enable some of those larger changes. The work outlined will be primarily based on the information gathered by the PE team before TechConf and the work done by attendees during TechConf.

Status
January 17, 2019
 * We're working on creating the documentation portal and getting things setup — defining outcomes and breaking them down into outputs.

February 25, 2019
 * we are breaking down projects and working on dependency tracking

March 2019
 * Discussed...

Outcome 2 / Output 2.3
Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs.


 * Session Management system

Dependencies on: Core Platform Team

Goal(s)
Production-ize and deploy session management service to unblock multi-DC

Status
January 17, 2019
 * RFC, language selection, and hardware was completed in Q2, this quarter, we are implementing servers and getting things set up.

February 25, 2019
 * CI is getting setup and ready to deploy soon, and also working on documentation - so fully

March 2019
 * Discussed...

Outcome 2 / Output 2.6
Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs

Goal(s)
Spec, plan, and implement MCR page layout enhancement.

Status
January 17, 2019
 * We are currently gathering requirements and writing the product plan.

February 5, 2019
 * We are a bit ❌ with this work, but hope to be working on it again in March.

March 2019
 * Discussed...

Outcome 2 / Output 2.5
Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs

Goal(s)
Design and begin integrating Parsoid into core

Dependencies on: Parsing Team

Status
January 17, 2019
 * We are just now starting development for this.

February 25, 2019
 * We are working on this, and is fully with the migration and translating of file and getting things integrated back into core; we hope to get it done by end of this fiscal year.

March 2019
 * Discussed...



=Q4 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1.2
Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it

Goal(s)
Initial design of documentation portal.

Status
April 2019
 * Discussed...

May 2019
 * Discussed...

June 2019
 * Discussed...