More words and context on the wikipage: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/201415Q4

Preliminary headline goals:

• Objective:
  • Finish building staging cluster
• Key results
  • Cluster serving traffic to testers
  • Instances can be blown away and recreated on demand
  • (stretch) Automate regular instance reprovisioning

Ongoing focus areas:

• Ongoing QA (Editing/Mobile)

Specific Q4 goals based on organizational priorities:

• Isolated CI Instances
• MW Releases (not much longer, May 25th release date)
• Deployment tooling & process
  • T89945: Merge to deployed branches instead of cutting a new deployment branch every week.