This is the #Engineering-Community quarterly review for January-March 2015
== Summary ==
| Objective | Impact on goal | Dependency | ETA | Status
| ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | ----- |
| [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015 | MediaWiki Developer Summit ]] | {T76506} | Engineering & Product Management: main themes, budget, contract approvals. | 2015-01 | A success, according to the participants' survey and our lessons learned. |
| [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Dev.wikimedia.org | Data & developer hub ]] | {T308} | Design: agree on plan for Blueprint skin. MediaWiki Core: agree on plan for API sandboxes. Various stakeholders: agree on plan versus doc.wikimedia.org. | 2015-03 | We focused on prototyping first. We have a broad plan that needs to be written down and checked with the stakeholders. |
| [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator | Phabricator migration ]] | {T94265} | Release Engineering: fixing bugs in our local extensions. Operations: deploying updates. | 2015-03 | Good progress overall. Some teams still using Trello. Scarcity of maintenance resources.
| [[ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T926 | Engage with established technical communities ]] | {T96013} | None | 2015-06 | Not started. |
== Success ==
After organizing the MediaWiki Developer Summit successfully, @rfarrand compiled our [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015/Lessons_learned | lessons learned ]] with recommendations for the next edition that are being integrated in ECT's future event plans and the 2015-16 budget ask (i.e. 3 days event instead of 2).
@spage joined our team in January and broke the vicious circle of theoretical discussions around the Data & Developer Hub by putting together [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_and_developer_hub | a prototype ]] with real content. This is forcing stakeholders and open tasks to be more specific and less opinionated.
S Page volunteered a Trello - Phabricator migration script, and he has driven the migrations of the Collaboration and former Growth teams, extending an offer to the remaining teams using Trello.
== Miss ==
@rfarrand and @qgil struggled getting clear objectives and main themes with Engineering and Product management, and we were late when announcing the basic plan to our developers. Correction: ECT to own budget and organization of the Summit and hackathons, starting public planning sooner.
@spage has been contacting the right people in Core, Design, and other areas in order to obtain quick tactical progress with the Data and Developer Hub. However, the lack of a written plan and formally agreed dependencies keeps the resourcing of this important project out of the official plans of these teams. Correction: agree the plan with these teams, including committed resourcing.
@qgil had proposed 20% Phabricator maintenance time for @chasemp (Ops) and @mmodell (RelEng), but didn't follow up for confirmation. While Chase agreed this time with his team, Mukunda has been totally invested in RelEng work. Correction: transfer Phabricator ownership to Greg Grossmeier (RelEng).
See also: {T93770}