On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote:
> Like you, I'd argue in favor of scrapping the roadmap as it exists > today, but I think we should do a better job making the Deployments > page more informative. I assume we're still at the "as is" stage? with some plan to normalize around: 1) Engineering goals for quarterly and yearly: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals 2) Deployments for weekly and monthly: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments 3) Intra-team documentation > For example, now that we're working towards a > proper beta mode on mobile _and_ desktop, it would IMO be useful to > summarize which features are currently in beta and planned to enter > production soon. We still have too many situations where people are > caught by surprise by a deployment, both internally and externally. To get there, I assume? * We'd probably actually have to update (1) and commit to keeping up to date (at least every quarter, preferably more often) * We'd need to add some sort of monthly view into (2). It's a pity it's on Wikitech when the actual project pages are mostly on mediawiki, so some sort of template transclusion is out, I assume * a beta mode column? to be in (2) * Some sort of historical record a la Mobile Web <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments> as suggested by Arthur sounds like a good idea for (3) * If that is the case, mating that with status updates for the teams is probably work saving for monthly engineering report statuses: e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_engineering_reports * I assume we should link (3) to (1) and (2) somehow. Is that about right? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
