Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150929

2015-09-29

Team Business

• Skill matrix update for September:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
  • Due: Oct 6th

• Dev Summit - Register :)
  • https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/1-Ps8QfCrWatT9u6oboB3c1LRRNY1B7Rxxupqug6wNpc/viewform
  • Due Oct 2nd.
  • Topics
    • Scap - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045
    • Differential RFC? (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110623 )
      • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q2
    • other?

• Quarterly Review
  • in-progress
  • Invited Dan, Tyler, and Chad (sorry, but thanks ;) )

• Phab process proposal (if time permits)
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Phab_process_proposal

#together

• Team workboard triage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/query/open/
  • Should we do a weekly triage (not this meeting, clearly)

Scrum of Scrums

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

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

CI Scaling

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1010/

Quarterly Goal: "CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111106

• migrating python jobs
• working on the ruby jobs with zeljko
• addressing the gate-submit jobs slowness - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113501
• simplifying the CI config entry points. Ex with GNU Make https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/242177
• Lot of patches from Paladox

Deployment Cabal

Main: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/349/

Scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1449/

Quarterly Goal: "Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

• continue cabal group meetings
  • TODO: announce to ops list, describe what the purpose of the meeting is :-)
• scap3 to deploy RESTBase to beta-cluster

Phabricator/Diff[usion|erential] migration

Gitblit-Deprecate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/46/

Quarterly Goal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111465

Gerrit-Migration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/

• Differential plan of action question:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110623#1673139

• TODO: Differential migration weekly
  • chad, mukunda, chase (optional), andre

Release MediaWiki 1.26

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1177/

• Already switched master to 1.27 cycle
• REL1_26 branches will be made today -- will e-mail wikitech after branches created
• Scheduled release date is Nov. 21st

Developer Tooling (MW-Vagrant, MW-Selenium, etc.)

• MW-Selenium 1.6.0 released and announced (thanks, Zeljko!)
• MW-Selenium 1.6.1 to be released today (fixes a bug in UserFactory)

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

• Dan - Oct 16th (2015)
• Opsen - Oct 12-16th - offsite
• Antoine - Friday Oct 23th (2015)
• Chad - Jan 16-18 (2015, MLK weekend) - another music festival