On Sep 16, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org 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?