Wikimedia Technology/Annual Plans/FY2019/TEC12: Developer Productivity/Goals

=Program Goals and Status for FY18/19=

TEC12 Developer Productivity
 * Goal Owner: Greg Grossmeier
 * Program Goals for FY18/19: We will streamline and integrate the delivery of services, by building a new production platform for integrated development, testing, deployment and hosting of applications. Wikimedia developers experience a tooling parity between our Continuous Integration (CI) and production environments which enables them to release code more frequently by continuously reducing risk.
 * Annual Plan: TEC12 Developer Productivity
 * Primary Goal is Knowledge as a Service: Evolve our systems and structures
 * Tech Goal: Support our Technical Community



 = Q1 Goals =

Outcome 1 / Output 1.1
Local development is unified with testing and production
 * Create a production tooling compliant Dockerfile that sets up a basic LAMP stack, installs MediaWiki, and can run unit tests. (more)

Dependencies on: WMF Recruiting

Goal(s)

 * Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.

Status
July 2018

August 10, 2018
 * - blocked on filling the senior hire (backfill)

September 14, 2018
 * Interviewing is and might go into the month of October to find the best candidate.

Outcome 2 / Output 2.1
Developer satisfaction improves year over year
 * A survey is created and shared with all Wikimedia developers to measure overall satisfaction and productivity as well as identifying the most sought after needs. The top needs are shared as key goals for the team.

Dependencies on: WMF Learning & Evaluation and WMF Legal teams

Goal(s)

 * Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. -

Status
July 2018

August 10, 2018

September 14, 2018
 * This is now, but might go into the early part of October for privacy policy, etc.



= Q2 Goals =

Outcome 2 / Output 2.1
Developer satisfaction improves year over year.


 * A survey is created and shared with all Wikimedia developers to measure overall satisfaction and productivity as well as identifying the most sought after needs. The top needs are shared as key goals for the team.

Dependencies on: ___________

Goal(s)

 * The Annual Developer Productivity Survey results are synthesized and shared, creating a first year baseline.

Status
October 2, 2018
 * This is not yet sent. status for now.

November 2018
 * Survey sent. - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2018-October/000629.html

December 2018
 * Discussed...