Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals

Q1 (Jul-Sep 2014)

 * Deployment tooling
 * Complete support for HHVM in production
 * Hand off of tooling knowledge to Mukunda from Bryan
 * Beta Cluster
 * Complete support for HHVM in Beta Cluster
 * Browser testing
 * Port builds from Cloudbees to WMF Jenkins and close down Cloudbees completely
 * Split builds efficiently between local headless runs and our 10 available simultaneous SauceLabs VMs
 * Quality Assurance
 * Monitor process discussions across WMF where appropriate e.g. Phabricator workflow design

Q2 (Oct - Dec)

 * Creation of second non-prod cluster
 * Performance and nightly testing
 * Browser testing
 * Acceptance test suite is available for MediaWiki v. 1.24 public release
 * /qa/browsertest repo is removed, useful tests ported to /core/tests/browser
 * Quality Assurance
 * Participate in creating development process using new tools and features available e.g. second cluster

Q3 (Jan'15 - Mar)

 * Nightly builds on second non-prod cluster tested and used as deployment builds
 * Browser testing
 * Increase efficiency (e.g. parallel runs) and coverage (e.g. add tests for extensions)