Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20130917

2013-09-17

Who:

• Antoine, Chris McMahon, Chris Steipp, Greg, Sam Zeljkof

Visual Editor test under beta:

• Zeljkof and Chris working with VE team this week
• Antoine working on a roadmap / bugs entries to get Selenium tests runnable under a Jenkins instance in labs
  • Zeljkof got shell access, pair up with Antoine next week
• Chris requesting
• Adding a wiki on beta has a step-by-step guide on wikitech:
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep/Add_a_wiki
• Ariel in contact with VE team to find out which articles they need.

git-deploy

• greg contacted git-annex author, seems he is willing to help with some git repositories corruptions we are facing. Ryan Lane will get in touch with him.

mw release

• Chris talked with Mark & Markus about the next release. Tarball and scripts being worked on.
• A challenge is how to include the security patches without having them exposed publicly for too much of a long time.
• Chris: could we get the scripts integrated in Jenkins.
  • Chris and Antoine to pair next week