FYI, major update below. See the wiki for more details/links.

Greg

----- Forwarded message from Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> -----

> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:40:43 -0700
> From: Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]>
> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>, Development
>       and Operations engineers <[email protected]>
> Subject: WMF Engineering roadmap update
> 
> Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the WMF Engineering Roadmap
> update.
> 
> This is a larger update than normal as I missed sending this out the
> past two weeks (one week being the week of July 4th, and the other this
> was deprioritized due to other needs). My apologies.
> 
> As always, you can see the full roadmap, with information links, here:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap
> 
> 
> == Flow ==
> * June: started architectual discussions.
> * July: have/or will hire for Front End engineers. 
> * August: work on the API design.
> * September: First experimental release of the user-to-uesr discussion
>   workflow (probably limited to an opt-in group).
> * December: Goal date for the full production release of the
>   user-to-user discussion system.
> 
> == Mobile Apps ==
> * July: Revised login, iOS multi upload, bug fixes, back to regular
>   releases, New detail page, earliy campaign work.
> 
> == Mobile Web ==
> * July: Watchlist thanking/reverting (in beta). Getting started for
>   mobile in beta.
> * August: continued watchlist thanking/reverting. Getting started for
>   mobile planned to be stable.
> 
> == Language ==
> * July: ULS deployment to all wikis has been completed. Urgent bugfixes
>   and performance patches are now being deployed during the weekly
>   scheduled deployment window.
> 
> == Ops ==
> * July: Analysis and testing of Ceph lead to probable decision of
>   staying with Swift.
> * September: Migration to eqiad (datacenter in Virginia) from tampa
>   should be complete.
> * December: Creation and setup of the west coast data center should be
>   complete.
> 
> == Platform/MW Core ==
> * July: ElasticSearch research (in addition to Solr). Review work of the
>   GLAM Wiki Toolkit.
> * August: Deploy of either Solr or ElasticSearch to test2.wikipedia.org.
>   Also, a deployment infrastructe sprint will begin.
> * September: An Admin Tool sprint begins.
> * October: goal date of new search to English Wikipedia. Also, HipHop
>   deployment tentatively begins.
> * November: HipHop deployment tentatively completes.
> * December: A very tentative goal date for a centralized code repository
>   pending other priorities.
> 
> == QA ==
> * July: more Jenkins job executers for faster full suite runs. Trainings
>   for test development and failure analysis. Target groups tbd.
> * August: Continued improvements of BetaLabs
> 
> == Eng Community Team ==
> * August: Puppetize Bugzilla. QA training in automated testing for
>   gadgets.
> * September: prep for next OPW round
> * October: Community metrics integration
> * December: run the application process for the next OPW round
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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