2015-01-13

Guest: Antoine's daughter

Team Business

Computer History Museum on Saturday the 24th, 9:30am pickup time from hotel probably
Zuul/Gerrit aren't talking again, needs a restart
- Someone help Chris with his ssh config :)

Met with Arthur about team practices/process stuff. Arthur suggest a "value stream map". I did this as at least a start:

   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Cmcmahon/releng_process. Edit at will, and I'll show Arthur soon.

Helping to get ready for the MW-Vagrant Install Party
Establishing base unit-test coverage for plugin code ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76627 )

Collecting examples for Advanced Topics proposed session: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86070 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Monday.2C_January_26
General session is: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Selenium_Workshop
Refactoring the page object for Flow
- New TOC feature landed and only broke one thing, so I'll be picking up the pace here
- Will probably report upstream bugs because of this
Need to update a VE test, I want to pair with Rummana on this if possible
Slowly hacking on MMV/UW tests, low priority
Want to start working with Dan's EAL when it's ready.
- (It's merged and ready!)
Let's pair with feature devs to help educate
Antoine: congrats!

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85008 - Determine Trebuchet/git-deploy maintenance plan

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority Zuul deadlocks from time to time due to Gerrit not answering when Zuul report a comment and Zuul has no timeout

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150106-Zuul
That is a rather new issue, with root cause being Gerrit failling to reach its database
Draft architecture to have Jenkins jobs in dispoable/isolated VMs: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Architecture/Isolation
multiple extensions tested together

YuviPanda has been very active:
- removed almost all local hacks
- refactored a few puppet class
- moved some settings from operations/puppet.git to hiera ( https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hiera:Deployment-prep )
Labs DNS issue fixed (all DNS entries had a 0 TTL disabling DNS caching entirely => mass queries => server overloaded => DNS failing).
text / mobile caches transiently broken last week (vagrant issue)

Željko at Test Automation Bazaar conference (Austin, Texas) January 14-19
Jan 19th: MLK Day (US)
Jan 20th - 27th: All Hands/Tech Days
- Antoine flying on Jan 19th. Rest on Friday Jan 30th. Relocating (same building though) around Feb 14th.
Željko at FOSDEM conference (Brussels, Belgium) January 30-February 2
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.