2014-11-18

Team Business

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

Upgraded to latest LTS
- New UI!! https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/
- Jenkins was speaking Italian until Chad and Andrew fussed with it yesterday. For some reason en_US = english but en = Italian
  - ACTION (antoine): fill a bug to upstream
Slow browser tests dashboard https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70671
- Antoine proposed to delete history on qa list https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2014-October/002043.html
- Could archive them via a cron
- Greg: Or: "Jenkinks UI slow due to constant build record loading"https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-15858 (Fixed in 2.8)
  - greg is wrong
Doc jobs being migrated out of gallium to Trusty slaves
- MediaWiki core is using a new version of doxygen (1.8.x)
Mantle removed code which ended up breaking a few extensions on beta cluster. Would have been caught by running tests of all extensions together which is exactly https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RFC/Extensions_continuous_integration Please have a read :-)

Much healthier since we stopped those scap/HHVM 503 problems
- Still have a few issues for MMV and UW, working the bugzilla tickets for them
Shinken: http://shinken.wmflabs.org/problems
- lots of puppet issues
YuviPanda (now ops) doing a lot on monitoring front
We need tests for puppet :D

Theme is "address the tech debt in the browser test repos including rubocop"

Echo and Flow repos cleaned and refactored
VisualEditor repo almost finished with cleanup
MobileFrontend is next
TODO: bump mediawiki_selenium to 0.4.1+ on all repo
- will let fix a race condition between jobs by setting: export HEADLESS_DESTROY_AT_EXIT=false
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71602#c6
Ruby files are ruby 2.0 so use the ruby2.0lint Jenkins job template on repos (not the 1.9.3)
Environment abstraction layer
- Started high-level documentation (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing/Environment_abstraction_layer)
- Just a couple of missing pieces in Sauce integration

11/25 - Željko on a local meetup during releng weekly meeting
11/27 - Thanksgiving (US)
12/15-16 - Greg in Michigan (mostly out on Monday, somewhat out on Tuesday, will really really really try to be there for the meeting)
11/28 - Day after Thanksgiving (US)
12/25 - Christmas
12/26 - Day after Christmas
1/1 - New Years
1/2 - Day after New Years
12/20 - 1/4 - Greg on vacation
12/25-1/3 - Andrew B on vacation