On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Chris Steipp csteipp@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
To clarify, is the QA team now under Release Engineering as Chris'
comment
seems to imply, and how does this org change effect security engineering?
For now, I (the only security engineer) am staying in core, although much of my role spans both groups. I'll continue working with Chris, Greg, and other engineers across the WMF and developer community...
I think it is not accurate to say that "the QA team" is "under Release Engineering", or that Release Engineering is somehow separate from Core, and security, and the feature development groups.
Our QA practice reaches into many aspects of software development at WMF, and RelEng serves everyone who needs to get software to Wikipedia. We have a minimum of formal gates and handoffs and such; instead we try to put in place general processes (build, test, deploy) between your local development environment and production in order to get new features to users as quickly and again, as *safely*, as possible.
-Chris