Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Meetings2019-03-05

WMF working group for the future of CI

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

Meeting 2019-03-05

On Google Hangouts Meet. Present:

• Brennen
• Dan
• Lars

Not present:

• Zeljko (calendar conflict)

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 to ask Dan if he wants to join the WG as well.

Notes

• Lars added "Would be nice to support building and testing mobile applications (at minimum for iOS and Android)." to requirements based on request from Greg.
  • From discussion on IRC, it seems building for iOS is tricky (requires OS X worker, which may be difficult to provide).
    • Greg and I discussed getting Mac hardware that could be used remotely
    • TODO: Lars to check with his friend Vince about what NetSurf does
    • TODO: Brennen to also ask his own friend
  • Building for Android should not be a problem, as its SDK works fine on Linux.
  • For both, unclear what's needed to do automated or manual testing.
  • We should reach out to mobile developers in WMF to learn more of what's needed for this.
    • Dan: talk to Bernd

• Zeljko and Brennen were to find more candidates to evaluate and to split list based on very hard requirements.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217593
  • Status? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SWEo4r0X_TdGoaJTenLotLjMLbHUWjA0q_WyKooAGBE/edit#gid=0
  • Brennen to continue work here during the day.

• Lars was to evaluate GitLab-CI.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217594
  • Ran into problems with Go building. Need help. Dan?
  • Not done yet.
    • TODO: Dan to help debug the Blubber build problem with Lars.

• TODO: Lars to look at Concourse CI.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595
  • Ran out of time. Not done yet.

• When shall we meet next? What should we do by then?
  • Lars, Dan: GitLab-CI
  • Dan: talk to mobile dev
  • Lars: Concourse
  • Brennen: flesh out the spreadsheet more
  • Brennen: pick one more candate to review

Actions

• TODO: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217594 (GitLab CI)
• TODO: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595 (Concourse CI)
• TODO: Brennen to continue work on spreadsheet during the day.
• TODO: Brennen to add "open core y/n" to spreadsheet.
  • Be good to document which components are closed, since we want to be able to self-host.
• TODO: Brennen to take next piece of software for evaluation off the stack once spreadsheet is more filled out.
• TODO: Dan to reach out to mobile deveopers at WMF to gather requirements for what's needed for building and testing moble apps in CI.
• TODO: Lars to set up next meeting for Thu, 16:00 UTC