The 2014-2015 quarterly goals are defined by the following drivers:
Provide the third party MediaWiki users with MediaWiki tarball release management, support, and advocacy
Implement lightweight environmental scan
Build up a user group
Develop a developer community
Quarter
Goals
Jul–Sep 2014
Release management and support
Improve Quality Testing for Extensions and Older Release Branches
Figure out if we are shipping out right version of extension
Security and maintenance releases as needed
Advocacy
Meet with Mozilla at Wikimania
Maintain dialogue with users and developers
Mediate Composer dialogue at Wikimania and on RfC
SMWCon in Vienna
New Formats of distribution: Develop understanding of Docker, Puppet, and Vagrant
User Group
Promote and buildup user group
Initial meeting at Wikimania 2014, London
Have regular meetings
Initiate application for recognition for MediaWiki Cooperation
Mentor Google Summer of Code 2014 student, Adiyta Chaturvedi
Oct–Dec 2014
Release management and support
Major release 1.24 on November 26, 2014
Security and maintenance releases as needed
Assume responsibility for security announcements for extensions as needed
Document processes
Reach out to WMF QA about testing extensions
Work with volunteer to publicize 1.24 for users
Advocacy
Maintain dialogue with users and developers
Lead discussion about extension management
Scheduled presentation of what's new in MW 1.24 to enterprise user group in Houston, Texas
Plan of action for environmental scan
Release Team tasks:
Use data from WikiApiary and wikistats.wmflabs.org to gain understanding of who third party customers are
Compile a list of top requested features
Compile a list of bug fixes
Mentor Google Code-in 2014 students for the following tasks:
Research inactive wikis from WikiApiary
Fortune 1000
Find unique wikis
Look through mailing lists for mentions of requested features or pain points
Student participation in discussion about important questions to include in customer survey
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
Received recognition
Promote and buildup user group
SMWCon 2014 Vienna
WikiCon 2014 Köln, Germany
Provide list of interested individuals
Group meetings
2014-10-17
2014-11-07
Scheduled 2014-12-05
Jan–Mar 2015
Release management and support
Security and maintenance releases as needed
Security announcements for extensions as needed
Advocacy work
Maintain dialogue with users and developers
Lead discussion about extension management
Developer Summit 2015, San Francisco, California
Quarterly review
Showcase preliminary results of environmental scan
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
Promote and buildup user group
Meetings
Work with volunteers on tasks
Apr–Jun 2015
Release management and support
Major release 1.25.0 on May 27, 2015
Security and maintenance releases as needed
Security announcements for extensions as needed
Advocacy work
Maintain dialogue with users and developers
Lead discussion about extension management
Showcase environmental scan results
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
Promote and buildup user group
Have regular meetings
Hackathon 2015, Lyon, France
July 2015
Release management and support
Advocacy work
Environmental scan
MediaWiki Stakeholders Group
Wikimania 2015, Mexico City
The release and user group work are organized through monthly sprints with quarterly reviews. Each quarter's work will progress towards the annual goals.
