Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141007
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2014-10-07
[edit]Team Business
[edit]- All Hands Excursion
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Dependency wall: (grrr spam filter)
One card (ops/release) Phabricator related:
Lots happening in Phabricator world.....
- We announced that the wikimedia phabricator is now open to everyone...
- log in (or register) and try to break it
- link your account to LDAP and OAuth provider here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/external/
- New projects opening on hold till Bugzilla migration
- bug qgil if you have an urgent need for a new project before the migration
- Lots of tasks finally closed out of spite. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/oRIJDB5MpxjI/#R
- [Ops] LocalisationUpdate == useless Tin
Summary: currently app servers sync l10nupdate from tin instead of using the rsync proxies just like scap does. BitTorrent?!!
- (Antoine) All jobs depending on mediawiki core now have mediawiki/vendor cloned as well. Unblocks Bryan Davis changes to core logging
- (Antoine, Timo) Nasty regression in Jenkins Git plugin under Trusty (fixed)
- (Zeljkof, Tobi) Wmde browsertests jobs migrated \O/
- (Antoine, Dan, Zeljkof) JJB macro to easily run bundle commands
- (Timo) Labs slaves monitoring: https://integration.wikimedia.org/monitoring/
- (Antoine) Integration job to assert our PHPUnit fork works with mw/core release branches / master
- (Antoine, devs) pywikibot running python3.4 tests on Ubuntu Trusty
- Proposal to merge JJB and Zuul config repositories (see QA list)
- ACTION self deploy on +2
- Andrew has been too busy (migrating LDAP) to order new hardware for nightly cluster Still hoping to do that soon.
- Nightly cluster need resources from the whole engineering team. (Antoine, Greg during 1/1)
Browser tests
[edit]- (Dan) Checking in with MM team about MMV metrics and need (or not) to setup traffic shaping
- (Dan) Helping Zero with first browser tests for the Zero Portal
- (Dan) Moving ahead on environment abstraction layer
- (Tobi, Zeljkof, Antoine) Jenkins Performance Plugin enabled on all jobs (see QA list)
- (Antoine, Dan, Zeljkof) Firefox local browser tests have a race condition killing Xvfb
- (Dan) Draft of survey is in Qualtrics (needs final feedback)
- (Dan) Tech Talk in November with Bryan Davis
- Install party at Dev Summit: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Workshops
Hiring
[edit]- Elena starts on Tuesday (SF based)
Other
[edit]Vacations/Confs/etc
[edit]- 10/8: Zeljko - Croation Holiday
- 10/6 - 10/10 Chris vacation
- 10/13 - 10/17 Greg at MediaWiki Core offsite
- 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
- 10/21-22-23 Chris in SF (Elisabeth Hendrickson talk at WMF Oct 22)
- 10/27 - 10/29 Chris at Google Test Automation Conference Seattle
- 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
- 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
- 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)