Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150922

2015-09-22

Team Business

Quickly:

• l10n-update not updating Vector - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103879
  • see also: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112964  ?
  • need the deploy cabal to look into this :)

• Enable ferm (firewall rules) on tin
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/240083/
  • Just FYI - tentatively scheduled for Wed the 30th the hour before train deploy. On purpose! Moritz will be around.

Gerrit Cleanup day

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113028

On Wednesday, wmf branch already cut. So that leaves us ~ a week for beta cluster testing/polishing.

Dev Summit

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016

• Need to think of session topics: what do you want to talk about/plan with people outside of our team? Future deployment craziness? Future CI insanity? Go wild :)
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=wikidev16
  • Bracing for the storm: The future of deployment tooling (+1) (including ops)
  • Shifting CI configuration to repos? (has big implications for CI infra but seems to be an eventual goal)
    • something like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104024 but more general?
      • Yeah that is already the case with JS npm, Python Tox and PHP composer. mw/core and extensions switch to composer being worked on.

Quarterly Report

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11GDxDi0OzZ70pJk5AVoKRu2wjPWYh-CU6dbYWYWQGtQ/edit#slide=id.ga4ecc5878_2_0
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q1
  • need to fill in our (guesstimate of) work time on the goals (strengthen vs focus vs experiment)

Scrum of Scrums

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

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

• The two Phab exposure tasks: websocket and ssh
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100519 (ssh)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112765 (websocket)

CI Scaling

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority

Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499

Enabled on a single job for now. Antoine wrote a bunch of notes at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nodepool Needs cross team pairing and training now. Maybe a short pres/overview for the next meeting?

Over the next month-ish: 1) python 2) ruby 3) composer Potential blocker: needs a way to cache downloads from package managers repos (rubygems/npm/packagist/pypi etc)

Deployment Cabal

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1449/

• Good stuff merged yesterday (better output of subtasks/shell commands, rollback, etc.)
• This week:
  • Event logging from target to host (Dan might need to pair on this)
  • Pre-post stage checks
  • Need to refactor/merge Mukunda's improvements to logging
  • Goal is to start deploying on Beta Cluster soonish (next week?)

Beta Cluster

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority

Vacations/Confs/etc

Please add your time off to your gcal, **Phabricator**, and ADP, as appropriate

• Chad - Sept 28th (Music festivals)
• Dan - Oct 16th (2015)
• Opsen - offsite, October something, 1 week