Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201718Year

201718-Q1[edit]

#releng-201718-q1 (Phabricator project) -- All Technology team Q1 goals: Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q1

Annual Program/Outcome	Quarterly Objective	Tech Goal	Dependencies	Team members	ETA	Status
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services	Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290	D: Tech Debt	Operations Services Discovery Cloud Services	Tyler Chad Antoine Mukunda	EOQ	Done
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance Outcome 5: effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack	Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740	C. Improve our own feature set D: Tech Debt	All developers Notably: Wikidata, CirrusSearch	Zeljko	End of Q2	In progress
Program 6: Streamlined service delivery Outcome 2: unified pipeline towards production deployment. Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline	Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions - task T170482 Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests - task T170483	C. Improve our own feature set D: Tech Debt	Operations Services	Lead: Tyler Antoine Dan Jean-Rene	EOQ	N Not done

201718-Q2[edit]

#releng-201718-q2 (Phabricator project) -- All Technology team Q2 goals: Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q2

Annual Plan Program	Annual Plan Outcome	Milestone/Objectives	Quarterly Work/Goal	Tech Goal	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance	Outcome 1: All production sites and services maintain current levels of availability or better.	Objective 1: Deploy, update, configure, and maintain production services (Traffic infrastructure, databases & storage, MediaWiki application servers, (micro)services, network, and miscellaneous sites & services)	Work workboard Resolve some scap & git-fat technical debt. Implement most-wanted features identified by users of scap.	D. Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals	Technical Operations	Lead: Mukunda Modell Chad Horohoe	Ongoing	To do
	Outcome 5: effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling	Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure	Work Docker-CI A generalized POC for a docker-based CI. MW Nightlies TBC	D. Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals	Technical Operations, Cloud Services	Lead: Antoine Musso	Ongoing	Done
		Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack	Goal Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740	C. Improve our own feature set D: Tech Debt	All developers	Lead: Zeljko Filipin	EOQ	Done
	Outcome 6: Engineering teams can effectively plan, track, and complete their work.	Milestone 1: Maintain and improve existing shared code-review platform (Gerrit)	Work Ongoing maintenance and upgrades	D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals	Technical Operations	Chad Horohoe	Ongoing	In progress
		Milestone 2: Maintain and improve existing shared project management platform (Phabricator)	Work on-going work to move to modern hardware and cross-datacenter resiliency	D Modernization, renewal and tech debt goals	Technical Operations (Traffic)	Mukunda Modell	Ongoing	Done
Program 3: Addressing technical debt	Outcome 1: The amount of orphaned code that is running Wikimedia “production” services is reduced.	Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations) - task T174090	Goal Objective 1.	B: Features we build for others D: Tech Debt	Code Health Group	Lead: Jean-Rene Branna Greg Grossmeier	EOQ	Done
		Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091	Goal Objective 2.	B: Features we build for others D: Tech Debt	Code Health Group, Current and future code/product stewards		End of Q3	To do
	Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced.	Objective 1: Define a “Technical Debt Project Manager” role that regularly communicates with all Foundation engineering teams regarding their technical debt	Goal Objective 1.	B: Features we build for others D: Tech Debt	WMF Product Mangers (or similar)		EOQ	Done
	Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced.	Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation	Goal Objective 2.	B: Features we build for others D: Tech Debt			End of Q3	To do
Program 6. Streamlined service delivery	Outcome 2: Developers are able to develop and test their applications through a unified pipeline towards production deployment.	Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to publish new versions of an application to production via testing and staging environments that reliably reproduce production	Goal Complete build phase of release pipeline Build phase of the chart Build test variant Run test entrypoint w/developer feedback - services dependency Build production variant w/developer feedback - services dependency Tag production container Push to production docker registry - ops dependency - staging namespace	C. Improve our own feature set D: Tech Debt	Technical Operations, Services	Lead: Tyler Cipriani Dan	EOQ	Done

201718-Q3[edit]

#releng-201718-q3 (Phabricator project) -- All Technology team Q3 goals: Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q3

Annual Program/Outcome	Objective	Quarterly Work	Tech Goal	Dependency	Team members	ETA	Status
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance Outcome 5: We have effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling for developers.	Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack	Specific improvements to the now canonical framework, see: task T182421, notably: Upgrade webdriverIO to version 4.9 Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js	B: For others		Lead: Zeljko	EOQ	To do
	Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure	Draft requirements for a CI k8s cluster in preparation for Ops to create it in the following quarter(ish) Nodepool deprecation: npm and php jobs, but there will be a long tail of corner case jobs	B: For others	TechOps	Lead: Antoine	EOQ	To do
Program 3: Tech Debt Outcome 1: The amount of orphaned code that is running Wikimedia “production” services is reduced.	Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091	Obj. 2	C: Tech Debt	All teams	Lead: Jean-Rene Greg	EOQ	In progress
Program 3: Tech Debt Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced.	Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation	Obj. 2	C: Tech Debt		Lead: Jean-Rene Greg	EOQ	In progress
	Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))	Obj. 3	C: Tech Debt		Lead: Jean-Rene Greg	EOQ4	To do
Program 6: Streamlined service delivery	Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline	Build a functional PoC to verify the basic functionality of the 'production' image in the context of an isolated k8s deployment initially targeting mathoid.	C: Tech Debt D. Improve our own feature set	Operations Services	Lead: Tyler Antoine Dan	EOQ	In progress

201718-Q4[edit]

#releng-201718-q4 (Phabricator project) -- All Technology team Q4 goals: Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q4

Annual Program/Outcome	Objective	Quarterly Work	Tech Goal	Dependency	Team members	ETA
Program 1: Availability, performance, and maintenance Outcome 5: We have effective and easy-to-use testing infrastructure and tooling for developers.	Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure	Migrate away from Nodepool - task T190097 Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512 Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547 Add Python/Tox support to Blubber - task T186545 Add Ruby/Gem/Bundler/Rake support to Blubber - task T188950	B: For others	SRE WMCS	Lead: Antoine Dan Tyler	EOQ
Program 3: Tech Debt (aka Code Health) Outcome 1: The amount of orphaned code that is running Wikimedia “production” services is reduced.	Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091	Broad role out of Code Stewardship model. Update Maintainers/Developers page with currently known Code Stewards. Use Code Stewardship review process to address gaps. Deploy dashboard of Code Stewardship Coverage	C: Tech Debt	All engineering teams CPO/CTO	Lead: JR	EOQ
Program 3: Tech Debt Outcome 2: Organizational technical debt is reduced.	Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation	Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches. Identify early adopter engineering teams to test approaches.	C: Tech Debt	Select group of engineering teams	Lead: JR	EOQ
Program 6: Streamlined service delivery Outcome 2: Developers are able to develop and test their applications through a unified pipeline towards production deployment.	Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers	Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547 Small, standalone, MediaWiki containers built using Blubber Limited scope with: Debian Stretch, php7, composer dependencies, Mariadb, Apache (or last two with standalone containers) Build MW base containers upon branch cut at master branch point from core Build ext specific containers using MW image as base	C: Tech Debt D. Improve our own feature set		Lead: Tyler Antoine Dan	EOQ