On Mar 24, 2015 10:45 PM, "Rob Lanphier" <ro...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > First things first: I'm not burying the lede in this email, so if you > aren't interested in the inner workings of WMF's Platform Engineering team, > feel free to ignore the rest of this. :-) > > We're making a few changes effective in April for Platform Engineering, > which you all care deeply about because you're still reading. > > We're looking to give the teams a little more clarity of scope. > Previously, among other teams in Platform Engineering, we had a large > MediaWiki Core team, and a smaller Multimedia team. We played a big game > of musical chairs, and everyone from those teams is part of a new team. > Additionally, the Parsoid team got into the fun, getting a new member as a > result. > > > - > > Performance - This team is shooting for all page views in under 1000ms > < https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MtDBNTH1g7CZzhwlJ1raEJagA8qM3uoV7ta6i66bO2M/present?slide=id.g3eb97ca8f_10 >. > The team plans to establish key frontend and backend performance metrics > and assume responsibility for their curation and upkeep, and get a handle > on web page rendering performance. Right now, it's all about VisualEditor, > but over time, this is going to be a more generalized function. > - > > Members: Ori Livneh, Gilles Dubuc (soon!), now hiring! > - > > Availability - Make MediaWiki backend failures diminishingly infrequent, > and prevent end users from noticing the ones that do by making recovery as > easy and automated as possible. This team does ops facing work that > contributes to the overall stability and maintainability of the system. > Things like multi-datacenter support, and migrating off of outdated > technology to newer, more reliable tech. > - > > Members: Aaron Schulz and Gilles Dubuc (for now, until he wraps up > work on multi datacenter) > - > > MediaWiki API - This team's goal wil be make user interface > innovation+evolution easier and make life easier for our sites' robot > overlords by making all business logic for MediaWiki available via well > specified API. Some APIs will be in PHP and some external over HTTP > depending on the needs of other teams. > - > > Members: Brad Jorsch, Kunal Mehta, Gergo Tisza, Mark Holmquist. Stas > Malyshev plans to join this team when his work on Wikidata Query > wraps up. Bryan > Davis plans to join as soon as his role as interim Product Manager for > Platform wraps up. > - > > Search - Provide unique and highly relevant search results on Wikimedia > sites, increasing the value of our content to readers and providing tools > that help editors make our content better. The team will continue working > on existing backlog of the CirrusSearch/Elasticsearch bugs and > improvements, plus Wikidata Query > - > > Members: Nik Everett, Stas Malyshev (for now...), James Douglas, also > now hiring! > - > > Security - making life hard for the people that want to do harm to our > sites or the people that use them. > - > > Members: Chris Steipp, also now hiring! > - > > Programs support - support our non-tech programs with tools that delight > our users and maintain the privacy and security of our community, providing > infrastructure for things like Wikimania scholarships, grant program > applications, and ContactForm. > - > > Members: Niharika Kohli, Bryan Davis(20%) > - > > Parsing (renamed from "Parsoid") - There are a number of changes to our > PHP parser that would make things easier for VisualEditor and Parsoid, > while at the same time offering a more powerful and easy-to-use authoring > environment for our editors (even those using wikitext). Having Tim on a > rebranded “Parsing” team gives that team agency to start evolving wikitext > again, in a way that is supported by Parsoid HTML from day one. > - > > Members: Existing Parsoid team (Subbu Sastry, Marc Ordinas i Llopis, > Arlo Brenault, and C. Scott Ananian), plus (new) Tim Starling > > > You'll notice that some of these teams are pretty small, especially given > their scope. This is likely to be at least a little fluid for a while as > we make sure we have the balance of work right and as we figure out the FY > 2015-16 budget. > > Let us know if you have any questions about this. I say "us" because I'll > actually be traveling shortly. Feel free to ask the individual members of > the teams what's up, or if you don't know who to go to, Bryan Davis will be > filling in for my duties while I'm out. > > Thanks > Rob > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Thanks for sending this, its always good to be able to figure out who is working on what. Does this mean there will no longer be a multimedia team/nobody responsible or working on what the multimedia team was working on previously? --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
