Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Pretrain/Progress reports/2026-04-17
Report on activities in the Pretrain project for the week ending 2026-04-17.
[FY25-26 WE6.1.4] Establish Pretrain production design for MVP
[edit]If we document reliability risks and compensating controls to mitigate those risks, we will create a shared understanding of their implications for the Pretrain productionization design, sufficient to establish consensus on a path forward to enable an MVP.
- Progress update
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- Stage: Design
- This week continued to focus on automated supervision for unattended deployments, though progress was limited by other commitments and PTO. At this point, I believe we're close to agreement on which improvements to implement as part of the Pretrain MVP.
- Any updates on metrics related to this hypothesis (including baseline, target, or actuals, if applicable)
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- None
- Any emerging blockers or risks
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- None
- Any unresolved dependencies - do you depend on another team that hasn’t already given you what you need? Are you on the hook to give another team something you aren’t able to give right now?
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- None
- Have there been any new lessons from the hypothesis?
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- No
- Have there been any changes to the hypothesis scope or timeline?
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- No