Wikimedia Architecture Team/Goals archive

FY 15-16 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals[edit]

Objective	Key result	Dependencies	ETA	Status
Focus: Distributed leadership at/beyond WikiDev '16	Fruitful discussions at WikiDev '16, building sustainable engineering communities around key challenges.	Emergent leadership and wide participation	EOQ	Partially done Started implementing proposed process for forming working groups (T123606) None of the "central problems" in WikiDev16 followup task T124504 have catalyzed formation of a corresponding working group.
Strengthen:Improve RFC documentation	Better checklists for arriving at engineering consensus (e.g. T118473)	Documentation support	EOQ	Done mw:Consensus and mw:Good meetings intended as guides for developers trying to build consensus for their ideas.
Experiment: ArchCom naming	Think through our loaded naming scheme, possibly renaming bits (e.g. “Architecture Committee” and “RfC”)	Consultation over naming	EOQ	N Not done

Objective	Key result	Dependencies	ETA	Status
Focus: Implement ArchCom subteams (T123606)	Scaling the advice gathering process	Emergent leadership and wide participation	EOQ	Partially done - Security WG partially form. Conpherence experiments underway.
Strengthen: Iterative improvement in ArchCom processes (T125218)	Speed and clarity of advice from ArchCom	TPG support	EOQ	Done - Architecture committee/Status instituted; process for regular updates isn't as labor intensive as it once was.
Experiment: Develop Fellowships program	Clarity of relationship with our most senior engineers	Editing	EOQ	Done - the real work comes in instituting this next quarter.