Roadmap/2012/August

August 2012[edit]

Provision Memcached servers @ EQIAD [RobH} - [done]
Swift
- Move to new 404 handler (Aaron/Ben) [DONE]
- Cutover Originals (multi-media) on Swift - Tampa [Aaron/Ben/Faidon/Ariel]
  - Write new originals to Swift [DONE]
  - Reads from Swift with NFS as backup [ongoing, deployed to test*, mw.org] [DONE]
- upgrade Tampa Swift cluster to 1.5 from 1.43 [Faidon/Ariel] - [DONE]
- build up Eqiad Swift - [DONE]
Fundraising infrastructure buildup@ EQIAD [Jeff G]
- provision and deploy Boron (build host) - [Done]
- provision and deploy Indium (logging host) - [Done]
- build pxeboot, preseed, and puppet config - [Done]
- provision payment hosts - [Done]
- provision pay-lvs hosts - [Done]
- deploy nagios-nsca monitoring for new hosts - [Done]
Limited Apache-on-Precise deployment @ Tampa [Asher/Peter/Mark] - [Done]
NetApp /home deployment [Mark] - [Done]
Labs OpenStack release upgrade [Ryan/Faidon] - [Done]
Install new passive optics system between the 2 datacenters in Tampa
- CWDM Optics to increase bandwith capacity [DONE]
Varnish
- deploy Varnish with persistent store [Mark] [testing on mobile] - [done]

VisualEditor
- API (implementation of 3 features) [IN PROCESS]
- Feature implementation and bugfixing on VE according to 3 month plan [IN PROCESS]
Parsoid
- Parsoid fixes for release (December date) [ONGOING]
- Assessment of C/C++ implementation of Parsoid [IN PROCESS]

New Pages Feed (fka Page Triage)
- Public soft launch of curation toolbar feature (link on Special:NewPages, curation toolbar by default): [DONE]
- Other potential changes to be prioritized (e.g., message to article author, visual changes to New Pages Feed, etc.) [DONE]
- Keyboard shortcuts: spec [IN PROCESS]
- Increase visibility of Special:NewPagesFeed (e.g., notice on Special:NewPages) [DONE]
- Additional socialization [ONGOING]

Article feedback
- [DONE]
- assessment of scalability issues surrounding AFTv5 [DONE]
- performance/db related changes to AFTv5 queries before scaling [IN PROCESS]
- bugfixing and small feature enhancements [DONE]
- Other issues for enwp release (mobile, etc.)
  - Link with page protection [IN PROCESS]

Echo_(Notifications) & Flow
- Deployment of prototype for Mediawiki.org [Werdna/Vibha] [DONE]
- UI and bugfixing of Echo [ONGOING]
- see Performance engineering and Database Sharding for prep work on Echo & Flow

UploadWizard
- One sprint devoted to UploadWizard bugs for WLM [Kaldari/Holmquist] [DONE]

ResourceLoader 2 -- mostly the Gadgets-extension work which is (as of June 2012) in a branch.
- Set up a first working setup in WMF labs [Roan, Timo] [IN PROCESS]
- Testing existing gadgets on WMF labs for breakage [Timo] [IN PROCESS]
- Discussion of global scripts hosting [IN PROCESS]

Fundraising Engineering
- Auditing and Reconciliation (expect to complete mid-late August) [DONE]
- Adding Amazon payment processor [DONE]
- Adding Adyen payment processor [IN PROGRESS]

Internationalization/Localization
- Universal Language Selector
  - Version 1 development [IN PROGRESS]
  - User Experience / UI testing [ONGOING]
  - Technical documentation [TBD]
- Project Lassi: Translate UX Improvements
  - User Experience / UI testing [IN PROGRESS]
  - Prototype development [IN PROGRESS]
- Translate API
  - API definition [On Hold]
- TTMServer
  - Labs setup of SOLR review [DONE]
  - Testing of SOLR / TTMServer [DONE]
  - Deployment to 7 wikis [IN PROGRESS]
- Web Fonts
  - Adding languages [ONGOING]
- Narayam
  - Adding input methods for other languages [ONGOING]
- Project Milkshake
  - Design specification, API specification, development [IN PROGRESS]
  - Technical documentation [TBD]
- Language search
  - Initial analysis [DONE]
  - Prototype initial concept [IN PROGRESS]
  - Integration into ULS [IN PROGRESS]

Lua scripting
- Deploy to test2 [DONE]
- Deploy to mediawiki.org [DONE]
MediaWiki 1.20/Roadmap
- Bi-weekly deployment cycle continues
  - 1.20wmf9 [DONE]
  - 1.20wmf10 [DONE]
Continuous integration
- On hold in August
Git/Conversion [Chad/Antoine]
- Finalize decision on Gerrit vs other tools [Brion, David, Chad] [DONE]
- Improvements to project listing screen upstream [DONE]
- Research current Lucene status upstream & begin pressing on that [Chad]
- Create build environment so we can deploy custom builds [IN PROGRESS]
- Overhaul puppet config for gerrit and get labs functioning [IN PROGRESS]
SwiftMedia
- See "Swift" section in Ops
OAuth
- Finalize specifications, identify/recruit developers [ChrisS] [on hold]
Admin tools development
- CentralAuth and AbuseFilter bugfixing [Chris Steipp] [ongoing]
- Global AbuseFilter rules [Chris Steipp] [ongoing]
- Global AbuseFilter variables/throttling [Chris Steipp]
- CentralAuth mass account blocking [Chris Steipp] (possibly September)
Site performance
- Assessment of PHP 5.4 and suhosin removal [DONE] [Tim/Faidon/Asher]
  - Ready to move to PHP 5.4 when Ops is ready
Incremental architectural improvements
- Category collation
  - Pt wiki fix ready for deployment by Tim bug 35632 - window scheduled for Tuesday, August 21 [DONE]
Database sharding
- Initial prototype work (Aaron/Asher/Matthias) [IN PROGESS]
  - Awaiting review by Tim
Wikidata deployment
- Code review of extensions [Sam, Tim] [ongoing]

- Start helping test NewPagesFeed/Page Curation Toolbar [Chris] [DONE,ONGOING]
- Enable and configure useful extensions on beta labs (AFTv5, NewPagesFeed, Curation Toolbar, etc.) for testing [Antoine/Chris][IN PROGRESS] (final step, deploying to beta via Jenkins/git was waiting on gluster upgrade)
- possible Sept test event for PageTriage/NewPagesFeed/Curation Toolbar [Chris][IN PROGRESS] (final decision by Aug 17)
- miscellaneous projects as required: EtherEdit testing, TMH testing, documentation, small projects [ONGOING]
Hiring for QA Engineer, Bug Wrangler and Volunteer Eng Coordinator

Cache Server Log Aggregation Plan [Dave, Otto] [IN PROGRESS]
- Complete testing Kafka
- Complete architectural suggestions document
- Present to Ops, get signoff, throw party
Hire new engineer [DONE]
Prototype of Data Warehouse [Dave, Otto] [pending]
- Test CDH4 on Cassandra 1.x
- Test DSE