Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141028

2014-10-28

Scrum of Scrums

• Dependency wall

(kept as long url because all short url providers are blocked by mw.org)

Phabricator

• test instance up at http://bugzillapreview.wmflabs.org/

Deployment tooling

• 5am deploy window on Tuesday
• Thurs -> Wed window move

Jenkins/Zuul

• Jobs not being triggered by Zuul suddenly https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63760 , hard to track. Antoine attempting to reproduce reliably.
  • Antoine attending OpenStack summit next week and will meet upstream. Good opportunity to fix it for real :-)
• Took random notes about a uniq job to test all extensions together. More later.

Beta cluster

• scap broken because WikiGrok extension was not registered in mediawiki/extensions.git
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment#Deploy_to_beta_cluster_on_Labs
  • (ACTION Antoine to update the Wiki pages)

Browser tests

• (Dan) Env abstraction layer thingy ready for some manual/functional testing
  • start with CentralAuth
  • experimental branch with multiple commits
• (Dan) Sorting through rubocop-related commits and rewriting Ruby conventions

Vagrant

• (Dan) Sent a survey reminder out (we're up to 49 responses (!!!))
  • next step: sending to wikitech-l/etc
• (Dan) Working with Bryan on an outline for the tech talk in November

Hiring

• RelEng in-progress

Vacations/Confs/etc

• 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
• 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
• 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
• 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)
• 11/ something Thanksgiving (US)