Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201718Q3

Wikimedia Release Engineering Goals
FY201718Q3 (January - March)

#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