FY18-19 Plan: Platform Evolution CDP

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Program Manager: Corey Floyd
Product Manager: Cindy Cicalese
Executive Sponsor: Victoria Coleman

Goals and Outcomes

Annual Plan Goals: Knowledge as a Service/Knowledge Equity
Program Goal: Empower the Wikimedia Foundation to accomplish its goals of Knowledge Equity and Knowledge as a Service by evolving and investing in our technology stack to improve its flexibility, maintainability, and sustainability
Outcomes:

Targets

Outcome Target Description Measurement Method
Outcome 1: Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it Engineers can confidently port specific individual components of Parsoid and verity its correctness and performance without requiring a full port to be ready Ensure that token transformers and DOM passes have unit tests and a unit testing framework with suitable mocks
Outcome 1: Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it WMF Staff and volunteers can view and understand the current architecture, proposed architecture, implementation plan as well as the parser unification plan Ensure the architecture and plan documents exists, are publicly accessible, and are announced on public communication channels
Outcome 2: Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs Engineers can implement a REST API in MediaWiki using our routing infrastructure Engineers develop or convert at least one service to REST in MediaWiki
Outcome 3: Engineers better understand our current architecture and coding standards and where to find them Engineers can view the WMF production architecture, the exposed APIs and the coding standards in a centralized documentation portal Ensure this portal exists, is accessible by engineers inside and outside the organization, and is announced on public communication channels

Budget Segments

Team: Audiences Design
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Team: Documentation
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Team: MediaWiki Platform
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Team: Parsing
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Team: Performance
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Team: Readers Web
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Team: Services
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Team: WMDE (Daniel)
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Full Plan

Outcome Output Primary Team Collaborating Teams
Outcome 1: Engineers have a clear understanding of our technology stack and the plan to better scale, maintain and test it Output 1.1: Architecture Spec for the WMF technology stack WMDE (Daniel)
  • TechCom
  • MediaWiki Platform
  • Services
  • Performance
  • Parsing
  • Reading Infrastructure
Output 1.2: MediaWiki REST API Design MediaWiki Platform
  • Services
  • Readers Web
  • Reading Infrastructure
  • Audiences Design
  • Audiences Product
Output 1.3: Parser Unification Plan Parsing
  • MediaWiki Platform
Outcome 2: Engineers are able to access more functionality of the stack using well encapsulated components and well defined APIs Output 2.1: MediaWiki REST API Infrastructure MediaWiki Platform
  • Services
  • Readers Web
  • Reading Infrastructure
  • Audiences Design
  • Audiences Product
Output 2.2: Modularized RESTBase Services
  • MediaWiki Platform
Output 2.3: Session Management system Services
Output 2.4: Personalized and non-personalized content can be assembled into a page outside of the MediaWiki application Performance
  • Traffic
Output 2.5: Initiation of Parser Unification Parsing
  • MediaWiki Platform
Output 2.6: TBD Refactoring Output (Scope pending architecture - potentially: Use Service Container throughout MediaWiki Core) WMDE (Daniel)
  • TechCom
  • WMDE
  • MediaWiki Platform
Output 2.7: Refactor presentation layer away from business logic code in MediaWiki Readers Web
  • MediaWiki Platform
  • Audiences Design
  • Reading Infrastructure
  • WMDE
Output 2.8: Improved OOUI Library Audiences Design
  • Readers Web
Outcome 3: Engineers better understand our current architecture and coding standards and where to find them Output 3.1: Wikimedia developer documentation portal Documentation
  • Technical Collaboration
  • Audiences Design
  • Services
  • Reading Infrastructure
  • MediaWiki Platform
  • Wikimedia Cloud Services
Output 3.2: Architecture pages on developer portal Documentation
  • TechCom
  • WMDE
  • MediaWiki Platform
Output 3.3: Coding standards pages on developer portal Documentation
  • TechCom
  • MediaWiki Platform
  • WMDE
Output 3.4: Wikimedia Style Guide Version 2 Audiences Design


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