Development process improvement
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Engineering processes improvement
Increase transparency and effectiveness of Wikimedia Foundation's engineering efforts
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Project justification
[edit]The growth of the Wikimedia Foundation's engineering programs and the scale of our ambitions necessitates more systematic thinking about all aspects of engineering process and engineering management. This includes:
- Public documentation of projects, status updates, summary reports, and current resource allocation
- Appropriately resourced code review / deployment / release train for both MediaWiki core and extensions
- Effective work methodologies for all Wikimedia engineering teams
- Selection of appropriate process support tools, ideally open source
- Optimized internal and external request tracking and resource allocation
Current priorities
[edit]Draft for discussion at 6/14 engineering management meeting
- (Lead: All) Allocate appropriate resources to code review / deployment / release process; develop related resource allocation policy
- (Lead: General Engineering) Continue (based on /Pages organization and related pages) standardization of public reporting / status pages, esp. public resource tracking
- (Lead: Features) Integrate Etherpad notetaking into public wiki pages to ensure visibility of progress
- (Lead: Features/Product) Develop documentation on WMF feature development process
- (Lead: General Engineering) Standardize testing frameworks, increase test coverage, and improve test integration into code review process
Working drafts
[edit]Status updates
[edit]From Status updates:
2011-06-14
[edit]Alolita, Erik, Rob, Sumana, Ct, Tomasz, Danese had an initial meeting with ThoughtWorks in which we discussed challenges related to the code review/deployment/release management process and engagement of the broader open source community, primarily to help evaluate a possible engagement on continued process improvements; Erik will follow-up.
2011-07-07 and 2011-07-08
[edit]"QuickStart" meeting with ThoughtWorks, see wikitech-l announcement. Meeting Notes (DRAFT).
2014
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2011-07-07
[edit]2015
[edit]- Community Engagement (Product)/Collaboration process/Draft
- Design and development principles
- WMF product development process
Previous work
[edit]See /Archive