On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Weekly deployment plans/notes
This monthly roadmap spreadsheet/wiki page
Quarterly plans, as represented in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2013-14_Goals and other
places
Yearly/annual plans
This is too much.
Agreed, let's rationalize this a bit. Part of the point of the Roadmap
with monthly breakdowns was to create an overview where people can
more easily anticipate e.g. architectural conversations and inter-team
sync-ups that need to happen. It's not working for that, because it's
not part of anyone's workflow.
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. 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.
Erik
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Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation