On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Steven Walling swalling@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