This project tracks tasks in January-March 2015 which have been nominated or accepted as blockers for VisualEditor's deployment. Those tasks are triaged in public weekly meetings.

Objectives

• No data loss
  • No loss of existing article data
  • No loss of the user's contribution
• No security issues
• Meets specified performance benchmarks
  • Time to load is within 150% when compared to WT
  • Time to save is within 150% when compared to WT
• Meets specified edit completion benchmarks (comparative to WT — need is to instrument the WT funnel, T88027: Apply Schema:Edit instrumentation to WikiEditor)
  • Abandoned edits, software/API errors, user errors, successful saves
  • Funnels need to be visualized clearly
• Qualitative UX testing
  • 75%+ users can write content
  • 75%+ users can add a reference
  • Better task performance by users without editing experience compared with wikitext

Decision tree

Priority issues:

• Functionality regression
• Performance regression
• Data corruption
• Security issue
• Crash of entire editor
• Crash of bits of editor (e.g. copy & paste stops working)

Rating:

• Very common -> Unbreak now! if a priority issue, Normal if not
• Common -> High if a priority issue, Normal if not
• Sometimes -> Normal if a priority issue, Low if not
• Rare / very rare -> Low if a priority issue, Lowest if not

Features:

• On list for this quarter -> High
• On list for this year -> Normal
• On list for next year -> Low
• Not on list -> Lowest