Facilitate Wikidev'17 main topic "How to manage our technical debt"
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	Oct 12 2016, 4:07 PM

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_manage_our_technical_debt

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greg created this task.Oct 12 2016, 4:07 PM

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greg added a parent task: T141938: Prepare a program for Wikimedia Developer Summit 2017 to effectively address current high level movement needs.Oct 12 2016, 10:25 PM

Qgil moved this task from Backlog to Organization on the Wikimedia-Developer-Summit board.Oct 13 2016, 12:31 PM

Last year, @MrStradivarius suggested "Standardise procedures for deprecating public-facing code" (T114384) as a topic for Wikimedia-Developer-Summit-2016. Since his initial proposal, the topic hasn't exactly been solved. We have T121204 and T146965, and we at WMF are struggling with how to deal with deployed components that don't have clear owners (see T128370).

We have this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation

...which has an interesting edit history.

Perhaps we can spend some time before/during/after the summit coming to some agreement on what mw:Deprecation should actually say on it.

In T147937#2715178, @RobLa-WMF wrote:

Perhaps we can spend some time before/during/after the summit coming to some agreement on what mw:Deprecation should actually say on it.

+1! I presume we can help move @Legoktm's RFC forward between now and then? That *feels* like the right thing to push on to me at least. But, that one is scoped narrowly to only MW Core internals (see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Deprecation_policy#Scope)

Re https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deprecation I would *love* if that page linked to all of the deprecation policies in use by the various things Wikimedia developers own (ie: not Node's deprecation policy, but Parsoid's/Service's).

greg added a subtask: T149535: Refactoring the Interwiki Map: status and outlook.Nov 2 2016, 4:27 PM

greg added a subtask: T149534: Scaling the MediaWiki database schema.

greg added a subtask: T149533: Platforms are Products too!.

greg added a subtask: T149408: Asynchronous processing in production: one queue to rule them all.

greg added a subtask: T147171: i18n maintenance for MediaWiki and extensions.

greg added a subtask: T149639: Better code review processes for reviewers.

greg added a subtask: T149617: Integrating MediaWiki (and other services) with dynamic configuration.Nov 2 2016, 5:58 PM

greg updated the task description. (Show Details)Nov 2 2016, 9:33 PM

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greg closed this task as Resolved.Jan 17 2017, 7:28 PM

greg moved this task from Backlog to Done on the User-greg board.

greg closed subtask T149533: Platforms are Products too! as Resolved.Jan 20 2017, 8:03 PM