Developer Relations/Goals

For the process for defining these goals, see Developer Relations/Planning#Quarterly goals.

January - March 2016

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016	The majority of participants in Jerusalem plan to work on Community Wishlist tasks. The CW is an important factor in developer engagement and travel sponsorship decisions.	Community Tech, Wikimedia Hackathon 2016 organizers	March/April 2016	Proposed; Results
Agree on and implement actions to prioritize code review of patches submitted by volunteers	Discussion and consensus among stakeholders which process changes to effectively implement and how	WMF Engineering and product teams; ~~mw:Team Practices Group input/support for team workflow related items~~; Development community; Define potential actions to reduce code review queues and waiting times	February/March 2016	N Not done: Actions identified and agreed on, but not implemented yet
Partner with WMIL on a successful Wikimedia Hackathon 2016	International hackathon in Jerusalem March 30 - April 3, 2016. Supporting newcomers, demo-able projects and showcase, main themes and focus areas, successful social events, productive environment.	WMIL, WMF engineering teams	March/April, 2016	Proposed
Help Hackathon participants with project pre-planning	Try to connect paid and volunteer developers with projects and each other in advance of hackathons.	WMF Engineering teams, Volunteer Devs	March/April, 2016	Proposed

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Connect the priorities of the Community Wishlist and other tech priorities with the Wikimedia Hackathon 2016	See Team goals
FY 2016-17 Annual Plan for Developer Relations (Phabricator task coming soon)	First iteration of a DevRel strategy is completed and publicly documented. Requests for FY 2016-17 are reflected in WMF Annual Plan.
Align Community Liaison and Developer Relations project management practices	Coming soon.		March	Ongoing
Deploy Newsletter extension in Wikimedia	Newsletter extension enabled in one Wikimedia project	Newsletter-extension project volunteers	March	Ongoing (Deployed on beta cluster but not in production yet)

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Lessons Learned from WikiDev 2016	How did it go? What could have gone better? Ideas for next year.	WikiDev participants, creation of feedback survey.	Feb - Mar 2016	Proposed
Redefine Wikimedia Hackathons	Define key roles that need to be filled at every hackathon, size limitations so that we can hold more hackahtons? New budget allocations.	WMF budget process, DR team, Hackathon organizers	Fed - Mar 2016	Proposed
Selection process for Wikimedia Hackathon 2017	Work with hackathon organizers and DR to come up with a better and more transparent selection process for Wikimedia Hackathons. Who decides where and how?	Hackathon organizers	Feb - Mar 2016	Proposed
Partner with WMIL on a successful Wikimedia Hackathon 2016	International hackathon in Jerusalem March 30 - April 3, 2016. Supporting newcomers, demo-able projects and showcase, main themes and focus areas, successful social events, productive environment.	WMIL, WMF engineering teams	March/April, 2016	Proposed
Help Hackathon participants with project pre-planning	Try to connect paid and volunteer developers with projects and each other in advance of hackathons.	WMF Engineering teams, Volunteer Devs	March/April, 2016	Proposed

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Agree on and implement actions to prioritize code review of patches submitted by volunteers	Discussion and consensus among stakeholders which process changes to effectively implement and how	WMF Engineering and product teams; ~~mw:Team Practices Group input/support for team workflow related items~~; Development community; Define potential actions to reduce code review queues and waiting times	Feb-Mar 2016	N Not done: Actions identified and agreed on, but not implemented yet
~~Have a second Code Review backlog cleanup day~~	All WMF developer teams join. 50% of unreviewed patches contributed by volunteers have at least one review. Improved awareness and knowledge about Differential's workflows across the developer community.	All WMF Engineering and Technology teams (through their managers); mw:Wikimedia Release Engineering Team (for Differential)	~~Feb-Mar 2016~~ Postponed in order to improve underlying code review problems in phab:T78768 first	Canceled N Not done

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