< Wikimedia Architecture Team
FY 15-16 Q3 (Jan-Mar) goals
| Objective | Key result | Dependencies | ETA | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus: Distributed leadership at/beyond WikiDev '16 | Fruitful discussions at WikiDev '16, building sustainable engineering communities around key challenges. | Emergent leadership and wide participation | EOQ |  Partially done Started implementing proposed process for forming working groups (T123606) None of the "central problems" in WikiDev16 followup task T124504 have catalyzed formation of a corresponding working group. |
| Strengthen:Improve RFC documentation | Better checklists for arriving at engineering consensus (e.g. T118473) | Documentation support | EOQ |  Done mw:Consensus and mw:Good meetings intended as guides for developers trying to build consensus for their ideas. |
| Experiment: ArchCom naming | Think through our loaded naming scheme, possibly renaming bits (e.g. “Architecture Committee” and “RfC”) | Consultation over naming | EOQ |  Not done |
FY 15-16 Q4 (Apr-Jun) goals
| Objective | Key result | Dependencies | ETA | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus: Implement ArchCom subteams (T123606) | Scaling the advice gathering process | Emergent leadership and wide participation | EOQ | Partially done - Security WG partially form. Conpherence experiments underway. |
| Strengthen: Iterative improvement in ArchCom processes (T125218) | Speed and clarity of advice from ArchCom | TPG support | EOQ | Done - Architecture committee/Status instituted; process for regular updates isn't as labor intensive as it once was. |
| Experiment: Develop Fellowships program | Clarity of relationship with our most senior engineers | Editing | EOQ | Done - the real work comes in instituting this next quarter. |
Related links
- Technical debt - the Wikimedia Architecture Team strives to help us manage our debt wisely
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