Reading/Web/Release process

Product release process

 * 1) Prototyping
 * 2) Development
 * 3) Development complete
 * 4) Feature flag/kill switch
 * 5) Code quality review
 * 6) Security Review
 * 7) BETA
 * 8) Full QA
 * 9) Instrumentation
 * 10) Testing (qualitative/quantitative)
 * 11) Bug Fixing
 * 12) Full documentation on-wiki and rollout plan
 * 13) Internal performance review
 * 14) API dashboard
 * 15) Performance review by the performance team
 * 16) Community consensus
 * 17) GO

Development release process
The reading web team current release process is the normal Wikimedia release process. See Version lifecycle, and Release checklist for more info.

We previously experimented with a branch based release process.