2015-01-06

Team Business

Asked to refactor a Flow test https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85201. Unfortunately or not, doing this properly is going to require something clever. I'm spiking that right now, and will ask Dan for some review before I get too far down the road. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/182851/
Still pairing with Rummana on VE stuff
Would like to start training Elena as well.
Updated a bunch of docs on mw.o
Apologia for spending the end of 2014 refactoring: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/Browser_testing/Refactoring_2014.

MediaWiki tests now run under both HHVM and Zend!
Started using composer as an entry point to run tests under Jenkins. Example repos: cdb mediawiki/tools/codesniffer
Basic convention for test entry points https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Tests_entry_points
- The ruby section could use to be filled
HHVM now autoupgrade on CI Jenkins slaves
testing mobile related mw extensions together: done to one last bug in Echo https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78592
Run Jenkins jobs in isolated VMs. Antoine will reorganize / break up the mess of tasks under https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499

Zuul/Jenkins/Gearman/Gerrit yesterday

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150106-Zuul
- TL:DR; If Gerrit is unavailable when Zuul send a comment, Zuul deadlocks => restart Zuul
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Zuul#Restart , need shell access
- make sure people have access to gallium (Chris M, Dan, Mukunda, Zeljko)
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85936
  - Example: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181211/ . Need ops 3 days retention + manager approval. Probably some training by Antoine/Timo in addition to the Zuul doc above.
Zuul cloner does not fetch submodules nor does it clean the workspace. Cause a few oddities. Antoine has Zero bandwith to implements the features.
- VisualEditor-npm is impacted

wmflabs DNS has been flappy for 2+ weeks causing the update jobs and puppet run to randomly fails. Lovely spam from Shinken and on qa-alerts
- Please ping Coren :-]
sudo access on mobile-cache instance is back
Q3 "intra-departamental priority"
- docs/plan-to-be: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_cluster/2014-15-Q3
  - is Q3 july-september? :D

Talk to Arthur about a TP+QA joint production. Can we do ATDD? Anywhere?
Would like to schedule a session for Tech Days. I like "Browser Test Design": ATDD and intent; waiting; proper code re-use; page object design; nesting elements.https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#How_to_schedule_a_session

Jan 19th: MLK Day (US)
Jan 20th - 27th: All Hands/Tech Days
- Antoine flying on Jan 19th. Rest on Friday Jan 30th
May: Hackathon in Lyon, France
- Lyon used to be the capital of the area a long time ago. Nice old city, lot of great food, reasonably sunny/hot.