Hi everyone,

Just wanted to give a quick update on our efforts to provide greater visibility/transparency to the engineering efforts for the 2011 WMF fundraiser [0].

For those of you that don't know, the fundraiser engineering team is implementing some agile methodologies for its development process. Currently, we're working through our backlog of user stories in two-week development sprints. I've begun chronicling our sprint 'retrospectives' [1][2], held at the end of each sprint where we reflect on what worked/what didn't work during the previous sprint.

In addition, we'll soon be making regular blog posts at the end of each sprint highlighting achievements/setbacks/etc. during our development cycles - you can expect to see the first one soon.

It's my hope that these updates will help provide more visibility into the wild world of fundraiser engineering and share the successes/failures of our new development process. Hopefully this will prove valuable for other developers/teams.

You can find more information about the upcoming 2011 fundraiser (beyond our engineering efforts) on MetaWiki [3].

Any feedback is welcome!

Thanks, Arthur

[0] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2011_Wikimedia_fundraiser [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective#Software_development [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/2011_Wikimedia_fundraiser/sprints [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011