Deployment tooling/Cabal/2016-12-19

Current Release

Prod: 3.4.2-1 (2016-12-14) Beta: 3.5.0-1~20161216225618.59 (2016-12-16)

Updates

• no meeting next 2 weeks (xmas + NY observed)
• Work coming along on python3 (Chad and Mukunda)
• Update on how tests are run (Dan)
• Discussed last tech meeting:
  • l10nupdate
  • The context object

Next release

• Improve failure handling and rollback behavior
• scap3 should repack / pack-refs git repos

On the radar/Next/blocking

• Scap deploy failed to sync git-fat artifacts
  • racy-git
  • tl;dr: cache invalidation is hard

Blocked

Needs review

• Use `pip wheel` to manage CI pip cache
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D514

Soon™/Wishlist/On the radar/Updates

• Mukunda is still working on `scap branch` ... differential revision Coming Soon™
  • an old revision is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/SCAPEXT/browse/master/scapext/wmfbranch.py
  • I'd like to start using sh for running commands: https://amoffat.github.io/sh/
    • It's in jessie and trusty
    • solid package without more upstream dependencies
    • current use-case is only on tin so trusty is not necessarily important

As Always

• Phase 2
• Phase 1
• Workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/scap3/
• Etherpad backed up to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal
• Future document https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Future
• Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MlEsFxrLvdZdV_G82WEAIvBXr7ArO7nCEKaFClHhJEw/edit#gid=0