A few updates re deployment, migrations and 2015 roadmap

[Christie Koehler]

Hi Folks,

We haven't had a meeting in a while and I wanted to update you all about
a few different things going on with the wiki.

1. As part of my on-going quest to get more resource support for
MozillaWiki, I put this executive summary together:
https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1APwqvxQLne0Uwh94mwWezQJNeEYPIeYbPdzc0eoDpTE/edit?usp=sharing

The purpose of the presentation is to demonstrate how integral the wiki
is to our product teams' work. Comments welcome. This is already
circulating, but I can still make changes to it.

2. We've made great progress on our new deployment model. We now deploy
directly from our git repository
(https://github.com/mozilla/wiki.mozilla.org). The dev environment runs
our master branch. Stage and production run from the production branch.
Every week's release is tagged so we now know at any given time what
code is actually live on the wiki. We also have a sandbox environment
(http://wiki-sandbox.allizom.org/Main_Page) which allows us to test new
features more fully before deploying to dev, an action which requires
WebOps time.

3. MozillaWiki has been chosen as the first Mozilla-hosted platform to
be migrated to Amazon Web Services. Background: IT has been working on
plans to migrate most of our self-hosted web services to AWS. I'm
working with WebOps to clarify MozillaWiki's requirements and to create
a migration plan. We expect MozillaWiki to be migrated sometime in q2 2015.

4. With much of our technical debt re-paid, I'm focusing on adding
significant new features. This includes MobileFrontend[1], improving
search with CirrusSearch[2], re-writing the bugzilla extension[3], and
making it easy to create wiki pages from etherpads[4].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051189
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915187
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051207
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065688

If you'd like to get involved in any of these efforts, or would like to
discuss their relative priority (espeically in regard to things like
improving anti-spam and re-opening registration), let me know and we'll
organize a discussion.

-Ck

--
Christie Koehler
MozillaWiki module owner
https://mozillians.org/u/ckoehler/
ckoe...@mozilla.com

[Gervase Markham]

On 16/03/15 17:56, Christie Koehler wrote:
> 1. As part of my on-going quest to get more resource support for
> MozillaWiki, I put this executive summary together:
> https://docs.google.com/a/mozilla.com/presentation/d/1APwqvxQLne0Uwh94mwWezQJNeEYPIeYbPdzc0eoDpTE/edit?usp=sharing

This is awesome :-) I hope it unlocks some understanding and resources.
There doesn't seem to be a specific "ask" at the end - that might be a
useful improvement. Do you need one person? Five people? What would they do?

Gerv