Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Meetings/2019-03-18

WMF working group for the future of CI

Context: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG

Meeting 2019-03-18

On Google Hangouts Meet. Present:

• Lars
• Zeljko
• Brennen
• Dan

Agenda

The goal of this meeting is to review what's happened since yesterday's meeting and plan work until next meeting.

Actions from previous meeting:

•  Done: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595 (Concourse CI)
•  Done: Lars to document how to build Blubber and run unit tests in CI
• TODO: Dan to evaluate JenkinsX
• TODO: Brennen to evaluate Zuul v3
•  Done: Zeljko to evaluate HarborMaster
•  Done: Zeljko to take a quick second look at sourcehut
•  Done: Lars to set up list for voting after this meeting
• TODO: All to vote on hard requirements in Etherpad
•  Done: Zeljko to create some tickets for remaining candidates
•  Done: Dan to reparent the Jenkins X ticket to the main WG ticket
•  Done: Zeljko to have a look at sourcehut
•  Done: Lars to check with Greg on how to report

Notes

General

• Lars has asked Greg for how WG should report.

Evaluation status/news

• Concourse - Lars hasn't gotten the "build Blubber" toy project done.
  • Might be due to insufficient effort in reading documentation, but it'd be better to not have to study hard to start using.
  • Lars can't recommend.
  • Discussion? Shall we close the task? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595)
  • We decided to exclude Concourse.

• We excluded a few others. Remaining: GitLab CI/CD, GoCD, Jenkins X, sourcehut builds, Spinnaker, Zuul v3

• What shall we aim to still evaluate this week?
  • Lars: GoCD
  • Brennen: Zuul v3
  • Dan: Jenkins X
  • Zeljko: Spinnaker

Hard requirements voting

ongoing, will be finished after meeting.

WG report

• Proposal: Lars to draft something on Wed/Thu, we discussion Thu/Fri, finish and send to releng list on Monday before team weekly meeting
  • explain the evaluation process
  • discuss the very hard criteria, with justification
  • list candidates with short one-paragraph summaries of what they're like
  • propose a tool or set of tools or possible alternatives for WMF CI, with justification
    • could be "one of these, depending on $whatever"
  • suggest next actions for releng