Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/status

Last update on: 2014-03-monthly

2013-12-03
The Wikimedia Release and QA team had their quarterly review in November. You can see the work items completed (and started) along with plans for next quarter on the quarterly review page.

2013-12-monthly
In December, the latest and greatest version of MediaWiki was released, 1.22. This was lead by Mark Hershberger and Markus Glaser, working as the MediaWiki release team, along with help from the Wikimedia Foundation Release and QA team (specifically Greg Grossmeier and Antoine Musso). Of course, this was only possible because of the great work by all of the MediaWiki developers.

The QA team, along with Multimedia team, is working on API level tests starting with UploadWizard. This is close to being done. Another API level testing activity is Parsoid, with help from VE and CI (Antoine) teams.

You can take a look at the first draft of the updated Development and Deployment process flow chart.

2014-03-monthly
The Release and QA team had their latest quarterly review on Feb 13th. Highlights from the meeting include:
 * we will be hiring two new positions (a QA Automation Engineer and a Test Infrastructure Engineer)
 * we will process through all pain points from the Development and Deployment process review
 * we will continue performing incremental improvements to the current deployment script (lovingly known as "scap") to better inform future deployment tooling work.
 * we will create a way for tests to create fake/stub data (for use in throw-away/one-off test instances)
 * we will make it so our browser tests are more accurate cross testing and production environments
 * and much more

Notable progress on things with visuals include:
 * An updated Development and deployment flowchart.
 * Auto-generated version available at: https://doc.wikimedia.org/mw-tools-releng/html/devdeployflow/index.html