Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Meetings/2019-03-20

WMF working group for the future of CI

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

Meeting 2019-03-20

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: Dan to evaluate JenkinsX
•  Done: Brennen to evaluate Zuul v3
•  Done: All to vote on hard requirements in Etherpad

Notes

Evaluation status/news

• Lars: GoCD
  • no progress, busy

• Brennen: Zuul v3
  • Report in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218138
  • Lars is against Ansible and thus Zv3
  • Zuul handles gating and Gerrit integration well, and this is likely to be used in the future, too
  • There is a sense that we do not particularly like Zuul, but cannot at this time exclude it for various reasons.

• Dan: Jenkins X
  • Evaluated, cobbled together kitchen sink vibes. Would like to exclude.
  • Seems huge for what it is.
  • Concurring opinions from Brennen and Lars.
  • Excluded

• Dan: Tekton
  • Did have a little bit of time to check out Tekton, would like to spend a bit more.

• Zeljko: Spinnaker
  • no progress

WG report

• Lars wrote an incomplete first draft. Discussion.
  • Link in meeting invite.
  • Can we start filling in FIXMEs? Evaluations for candidates

Actions

• TODO: All to summarize their software evaluations as ~1 paragraph for report.
• TODO: Brennen to evaluate Spinnaker