Wikimedia Release Engineering Team

This is the team responsible for Release Engineering/Management and QA at the Wikimedia Foundation. We predominately use the QA mailing list along with conversations on the appropriate IRC channels (especially, , , and ).

Q2 Goals
See the WMF Engineering 13-14 goals page for the yearly view.


 * Browser tests managed in feature repos with feature teams
 * Successfully managed the first release of MediaWiki in conjunction with our outside contractor
 * More comprehensive quarter assessments of postmortems
 * Create process documentation for ideal test/deployment steps (eg: ThoughtWorks exercise)
 * Automated API integration tests in important areas

Q2December
Greg
 * Create baseline flowchart of dev/deploy documentation for use in the January in-person meeting
 * Create plan to evaluate progress on postmortem/retrospective actions

Antoine

Reedy

Andre

Chris

Željko

Jeff

Rummana

Check-ins

 * /Checkin-20131202
 * /Checkin-20131119
 * /Checkin-20131105
 * /Checkin-20131008
 * /Checkin-20130924
 * /Checkin-20130917
 * /Checkin-20131022
 * /Checkin-20130910
 * /Checkin-20130903

Quarterly Reviews

 * November 2013
 * August 2013

Backlog/Wishlist
We maintain a list of projects that would be great to have done, but are not on our roadmap in in the near term. See the wishlist here.