Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20131105

Agenda

git-deploy
- Mostly on hold right now
automation
- extension removal updates are currently manual, maybe make automatic? less beta cluster breakage
- support Parsoid correctly on beta labs
monitoring
- antoine will fill a ton of bugs here for beta cluster

monitoring of fatals, errors, performance
- exception going to be logged via json soon. Patch pending in mediawiki/core.
- Need monitoring setup (aka Icinga / irc notification bot ...). Action for OPS
SSL
- No more issue since Chris fixed the configuration
- real
- lock down the one varnish instance?
- remove sudo access on varnish?
- => Antoine to create user group / tweak sudo policy / write doc
- => Chris supporting / reviewing and poking Ryan to get the SSL certificates deployed.
add more automated tests for eg the API
- sync articles/gadgets from production https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49779

- Chris cleaned up a bunch of old Gadgets and user javascript that were out of date and/or corrupt but still on beta and causing issues.
feed experiences/gained knowledge of Beta Cluster automation up to production automation

Apply model of Language/Mobile embedded QA to a new feature team (specifically VisualEditor)
- Rummana is testing VE successfully
- Jeff Hall coming on board Nov 12
Include more user contributed code testing (eg: Gadgets)
Increase capacity through community training for browser tests
Mobile/Michelle
- teaching devs to do automated tests :)
- writing up some cheat sheets for them
- looking at javascript code coverage tooling, email to wikitech-l forthcoming
- figuring out deploy train
Release notes enhancement (Andre)
- revaluating tools used for project/feature/roadmap/whatever ?
  - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tracker/PM_tool (from 2010)
  - Blog post by Guillaume Paumier http://guillaumepaumier.com/2010/03/05/scaling-up-software-development-for-wikimedia-websites-tools/ , looked at redmine
  - Would be looked at starting in January
- teampractices mailing list opening up to other organizations

QA/Release quaterly review postponed. Greg/Rob/Chris sitting together soon to think about it.