Roadmap/2012/October

Technical Operations

 * Redis/Memcached
 * Deploy limited php-redis on the apaches, and all new sessions are being written to a redis instance  (mc1).  [Tim/Asher] [Done]
 * Swift
 * start migrating swift backend servers to new NAS1 server [Mark] [done]
 * Evaluate Ceph [Faidon/Asher/Aaron] [on-going]
 * Commons infrastructure
 * migrate ms7 (commons) to Nas1 [Done]
 * replicate Nas1 (Tampa) to Nas2 (Ashburn) [done]
 * Parser Cache
 * build 2 more parser cache instances@ Tampa [Mark] [Done]
 * Deploy Varnish on upload@Eqiad to replace squid [Mark] {done]
 * Deploy 4 new servers for bits@ESAM [Mark] [done]
 * Deploy Wikidata

Features

 * VisualEditor/Parsoid (Trevor, Roan, Rob, Gabriel, Subbu, MarkTraceur, + Wikia)
 * API finalization/debugging [IN PROCESS]
 * Iteration on Visual Editor for Dec release [IN PROCESS]
 * Parsoid testing framework for semantic/superficial regressions [IN MAINTENANCE]
 * Node.js parsoid to completion [ONGOING, 75% exact, 93% semantic]
 * experimentation into C/C++ version [ON HOLD UNTIL JAN]


 * New Pages Feed (fka Page Triage) (Kaldari, Benny)
 * Additional socialization and public announcement/launch [DONE]
 * Descriptive statistics on NPF (revised dashboard on toolserver) [Dario] [IN PROCESS]
 * Bug fixes (no more feature development) [ONGOING]


 * Echo (Notifications) and Flow (Kaldari, Benny, Werdna, Luke Welling, Preilly, Aaron S)
 * re-deployment of Echo prototype for Mediawiki.org [Werdna/Vibha/Kaldari] [NOV 1]
 * issue with relative timestamping (WSTimestamp::GetHumanTimestamp and Language::prettyTimestamp patch) [IN PROCESS]
 * Continued development of Echo prototype for Mediawiki.org [Werdna/Vibha/Kaldari/Benny] [ONGOING]
 * Selection of initial use cases [Vibha/Fabrice] [DONE]
 * UI and bugfixing of Echo [Krenair] [ONGOING]
 * Global user changes [JamesF] [IN PROCESS]
 * (see Performance engineering for infrastructure prep work:)
 * queueing abstraction [DONE]
 * queueing for Echo [IN PROCESS]
 * Database sharding & Flow


 * Article feedback (Matthias)
 * (most delayed because of Wikivoyage resourcing)
 * Oversight checklist (to help reduce the volume of oversight requests) [DONE]
 * Continued AbuseFilter work [DONE]
 * Conversion analysis: [DONE]
 * performance/db related changes to AFTv5 queries before scaling, + sharding (see Database sharding) [Matthias] [IN PROCESS]


 * E3 (Ori, S, Luke)
 * Clicktracking/Analytics
 * Event tracking live [DONE]
 * EventTracking schema filtering [IN PROCESS]
 * Clicktracking sunset [Scheduled for 10/31]
 * Funnel tracking of Community Portal [Started] (will be ongoing)


 * Post-edit Feedback 2
 * Deployed to production [DONE]
 * Data analysis once experiment is complete [DONE]


 * Account Creation User Experience
 * Deployment of first test to production [DONE]
 * Deployment of second test to production (client-side validation) [10/24]
 * Minor UI tweaks [IN PROCESS]
 * Data analysis once experiment is complete [IN PROCESS]


 * MicroDesign
 * edit window templates [IN PROCESS]
 * (see Agora)


 * List of other projects on radar
 * ResourceLoader2
 * Article creation workflow
 * LiquidThreads 3.0

Fundraising

 * Data discrepency error/regressions [IN PROCESS]

Multimedia

 * TimedMediaHandler
 * Bugfixing of player on test2 DONE (Michael Dale)

Mobile

 * Beta features
 * left nav [DONE]
 * new typography [DONE]
 * login [DONE]
 * Prod
 * left nav [DONE]
 * new typography [DONE]


 * promote wikipedia beta app to stable [DONE]
 * mobile friendly resource loader [DONE]
 * dynamic sections [DONE]
 * pickup any remaining redirects [office, chapters, ...] [DONE]
 * Launch Saudi [DONE]

QA

 * Created basic Regression Tests Mobile Browser Regression Tests
 * Start Implementing Watir-based browser Mobile Testing Watir-webdriver Mobile Testing
 * Continue working with Chris and Zeljko to use CI framework that the Platform QA team is setting up
 * Continue to work with the Product team to Test prior to each deployment

MediaWiki Core

 * Datacenter migration (see TechOps section above)
 * Git/Conversion (Chad/Antoine)
 * Mirror mediawiki-core to GitHub [Chad] [DONE]
 * Have last of extensions out of SVN and into Git [Done]
 * Mark extensions directory as read-only [Chad]
 * Finish replicating all repos to GitHub [DONE]
 * Begin researching how to get pull requests back in
 * Swift
 * See Swift section in Ops
 * MediaWiki 1.20/Roadmap
 * Bi-weekly deployment cycle continues
 * MediaWiki 1.21/wmf1 [DONE]
 * MediaWiki 1.21/wmf2 [DONE]
 * MediaWiki 1.21/wmf3 [DONE]
 * Continuous integration
 * Integrate zuul into Jenkins pipeline [Antoine] [IN PROGRESS, finish in November]
 * Move Jenkins job setup out of web interface into Git using Jenkins Job Builder [Antoine] [AFTER ZUUL]
 * Upgrade Gallium to Precise [(someone in Ops) + Antoine] [DONE]
 * Admin tools development
 * Deploy global AbuseFilter improvements [CSteipp] (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23509/ / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/23514/ )
 * Build and deploy CentralAuth mass account locking [CSteipp]
 * Wikidata deployment
 * Code review of extensions [Sam, Tim, Chris] [DONE]
 * Need to review DataValues
 * Deploy MediaWiki version with ContentHandler branch merged in [Sam] [Done]
 * Create and deploy wikidata.org [Sam,Chad] [DONE]
 * Site performance
 * Make libxml use php memory allocator [Tim]
 * Lua scripting [Tim]
 * Benchmarking Lua templates relative to Wikitext counterparts [Tim]
 * Wikivoyage migration [Chris, Sam]
 * Deployment to en.wikivoyage to Beta [DONE]
 * Deployment to other langages [ongoing]

QA

 * Beta labs
 * Continue refining beta labs performance [Antoine/Chris/Željko] [ONGOING]
 * Begin work on Watir-based browser testing framework
 * Create at least one useful end-to-end test for important Wikipedia feature, with automatic execution (Jenkins-driven) and results reporting [Chris/Željko]
 * Create a list of targets for browser testing according to priority
 * Continue integrating Mobile QA with overall QA/testing activities

Analytics
See also: Analytics/Roadmap

Kraken

 * Set up Maven / Somatype Artifact Repository (continuous integration) [dsc]
 * WMF Maven parent pom [dsc]
 * Puppetize Kraken [otto] (Ongoing)
 * Set up JMX monitoring -- needs to be our LAN [otto + dsc]
 * Hadoop Ganglia Monitoring [otto] (Oct) [DONE]
 * Get Storm set up [dsc + otto]
 * Start work on ETL topology [dsc]
 * Hardware reinstallation -- Depends on Ops [otto]
 * Get to consensus with Ops regarding logging of the firehose [dsc + otto] [DONE]
 * Research needed: test running cli JVM producers does not cause extra load [otto] [not doing]

Limn

 * Refactor charting to use d3 [dan + dsc]
 * Feature Parity with Dygraphs (plus bugfixes, etc) (Oct)
 * Bugfixes (like Save-As, UI Error Notifications, ...) [dan] (Oct)
 * Improve Limn wiki, docs, & guides (esp those shameful screenshots) [dan] (Oct)
 * UI support for remote datasets via proxy [dsc + dan] (Oct)
 * Deploy reportcard / gerrit-stats on stat1001 (aka, "the Debian packaging discussion") [otto + dsc]
 * Support the Global Dev dashboard [evan] (Ongoing)
 * Support the Gerrit Stats dashboard [diederik] (Ongoing)

Legacy Log Collection

 * Add support for new domain names in webstatscollector (blog, etc) [diederik]
 * udp2log filters
 * Update filters for Wikipedia Zero [otto] (Ongoing)
 * Filter by X-Carrier headers. [otto + asher + diederik]
 * udp-filter to filter by http status. [otto]

WikiStats

 * Reduce backlog regarding Wikistats traffic (squid etc) scripts [stefan]
 * Repair data errors in wikistats, and add process for checking data integrity [ezachte] (Sept)
 * Make wikistats more robust (MoM validations) [ezachte]
 * Add Blackbox testing to WikiStats [diederik + ezachte]

Infrastructure

 * Access/support requests for stat1, stat1001 [otto] (Ongoing)
 * Migrate Reportcard off Labs onto stat1001 -- reportcard.wikimedia.org [otto + dsc] (Oct)
 * Maintenance of oxygen/emery/locke [otto] (Ongoing)

Data Releases

 * Publish Monthly Report Card -- deal with monthly data processing irregularities, perform correction/validation [ezachte + diederik + dsc] (Ongoing)
 * Create Data Release Practices Task Force [diederik]
 * Start pushing datasets to AWS [diederik]
 * Finalize scripts to massively compact dammit.lt data [erik]
 * Blogpost about what awesome stuff you can do with this [diederik + ?]

Engineering Community Team

 * Bug Wrangling [Andre + volunteers] -- ongoing
 * Updating BZ maintenance documentation [Andre] -- in progress
 * Followup from events [Sumana] -- ongoing
 * Followup on Grace Hopper
 * Tech Ambassadors Network [Guillaume] -- ongoing on meta
 * Volunteer product management program [Guillaume] -- being integrated into Tech/Ambassadors
 * Misc Engineering community proposals
 * 20% time [Sumana] -- ongoing - target 16 Nov - moved to November
 * CoC [Sumana] -- in process

i18n/L10n

 * Internationalization/Localization
 * Universal Language Selector
 * Version 1 development [IN PROGRESS]
 * User Experience / UI testing [ONGOING]
 * Technical documentation [IN PROGRESS]
 * Project Lassi: Translate UI/UX Improvements
 * User Experience / UI testing Round 1 [DONE]
 * UI design finalization for development [IN PROGRESS]
 * Prototype development [IN PROGRESS]
 * Translate API
 * API definition [On Hold]
 * Central Notice-Translate integration
 * Code changes DONE
 * Code review/testing: The i18n team has put this integration project on hold until availability from fundraising engineers to complete code review for deployment. ON HOLD
 * Deployment - scheduled for next sprint SCHEDULED
 * Web Fonts
 * Adding languages [ONGOING]
 * Narayam
 * Adding input methods for other languages [ONGOING]
 * Project Milkshake
 * Design specification, API specification, Documentation [ONGOING]
 * jQuery.i18n Development [IN PROGRESS]
 * jQuery.uls Development [IN PROGRESS]
 * jQuery.ime Development [IN PROGRESS]
 * jQuery.webfonts Development [IN PROGRESS]
 * Technical documentation [DONE]
 * Language search
 * Initial analysis [DONE]
 * Prototype initial concept [IN PROGRESS]
 * Integration into ULS [IN PROGRESS]
 * Standards participation
 * Comments on ARB Specification [DONE]
 * Language Summit
 * Preparation for November 6-7 Language Summit [IN PROGRESS]
 * Language Team Community Meetup
 * Language Team Pune Meetup Nov 4 [IN PROGRESS]
 * Language Team Bangalore Meetup Nov 9 [IN PROGRESS]
 * India DevCamp
 * Preparation of Topics for DevCamp [IN PROGRESS]
 * Registration now open [IN PROGRESS]