Developer Relations/Planning

Work in progress -- see T114137.

The Developer Relations planning process is based in Phabricator. Every significant task that doesn't belong to a regular workflow needs to have its own task associated to

Strategy
Our team doesn't have a proper strategy in place yet. Pending.

Roadmap
The Developer Relations roadmap can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/developer-relations/

The roadmap presents columns for every quarter, and we keep a view of at least four quarters.

The roadmap reflects
 * goals and other actions required to implement the strategy and the WMF annual plan
 * events and other predictable activities
 * other tasks in our backlog

New tasks are placed automatically in the backlog. Then we move them to the column of the quarter that seems more appropriate, usually once a month during a team meeting.

There is no common definition of a roadmap across the Wikimedia Foundation teams. The closest reference is Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan/2015-16.

ToDo

 * We don't have a high level roadmap. Should we? The current roadmap is not providing a quick picture of our future work, or a clear priority of tasks.
 * We should highlight here the goals/tasks directly connected with the WMF annual plan. Should we?

Quarterly goals
The Wikimedia Foundation has a common calendar of quarterly goals that we follow. It starts around the middle of the previous quarter, about seven weeks before the planned quarter starts.

There is no common way to publish quarterly goals. Starting with the goals for January - March 2016, we follow the process used at Wikimedia Engineering/2015-16 Goals, discussing and publishing our goals on wiki. Every goal must have its own task in Phabricator.

ToDo: explain how we discuss and approve goals, from email sent to wikitech-l and through the different rounds. Also individual goals.

Next quarter
The planning of January - March 2016 has not started yet.

Current quarter

 * October - December 2015

Past quarters
Before December 2015, we were using Phabricator tasks to document our quarterly goals. Before April 2015, we as Engineering Community Team used the same wiki paged used by WMF Engineering to document annual plans.
 * July - September 2015
 * April - June 2015