Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150203

2015-02-03

Team Business

• The flying Reedy

Team Workboard

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/?order=priority

Scrum of Scrums

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

MediaWiki Releases

• Release 1.24.2 and 1.23.9: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88120

Continuous Integration

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499 Others: please review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86171

• CI isolation architecture document to be sent to rest of team for proofread/info
• Antoine to set 1/1 braindumping for Jenkins/Zuul

Test Infrastructure

• Beta Cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority
• Staging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%2Cstalled&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-rtjlh4h7js35zu475ivc#R
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/staging-machines

Browser tests

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/630/ In process:

• Chris catching up with current vagrant situation
• Start using EAL widely
• Can we extend browser tests to mobile apps? Appium? Let's discuss... (came up in dev summit)
• Refactoring Flow page, it needs a fancy programming trick to identify Topic elements properly, will be pairing on that Thu.
• Zeljko or Antoine to review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/186451/ ? (New build for MF)

Hiring

• Tyler starts on the 9th, in SF the week of the 16th

Vacations/Confs/etc

• Feb 16th: US Holiday (Presidents' Day)
• Week before hackathon: Team offsite in France
• 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.