Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20151103

2015-11-03

Vacations/Confs/etc

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

• Nov 11: US HOLIDAY - Veterans Day - + Antoine
• Nov 26: US HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving
• Nov 27: US HOLIDAY - Day after Thanksgiving
• Dec 4th: Greg - disconnected, leaving Thursday evening, returning Sunday :)
• Dec 22-29: Chad - Christmas
• Dec 24-Jan 3: Dan - Holidays (probably)
• Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
• Jan 01: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
• Dec 2?-Jan 0x - Antoine, no clue yet
• Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
• Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
• Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
• May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
• June-ish: Chad - EDC
• August: France holiday - because french. :)

Team Business

Actions from last meeting

• TODO - GREG: re KPIs, do mw core gate-processing time for this quarter, reassess for next quarter if needed
• TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
• DONE - Differential-crew: talk more about RFC in the weekly meeting
• DONE - GREG: Get help from Megan/Sarah re moving the meetings around oh my god
• TODO - EVERYONE: please review Antoine's caching proposal! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2015-October/002414.html
• DONE - CHAD: 1.26 release: "Chad will send email to wikitech-l asking for help with the blockers today"

WIkiDev16

• Code Review RFC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114320
  • On track
• Scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045
  • not on track?
  • To discuss in deployment cabal—added some discussion

Other

• GSOC?
• Don't forget Zeljko's conference report after this meeting :)

New vs Maint time spent

• https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1FI90AefwdLHGzVVdrLS6AxcTcJtLFyX0aQTQfyc88s4/edit

#together

• Team workboard: to triage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/query/TRiVy4zOMdR./
• Team workboard: only-in-#releng(ish): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/20/query/g2T5.QSLJVRQ/

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117431

Scrum of Scrums

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

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

• Moving some wikis to a Wednesday train deployment (ask about hewiki and cawiki specifically)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115002#1774753

Project Updates

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

• still needing feedback on package manager caching
• since blocked on ^ decided to upgrade zuul :)

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

• AQS work
  • Start here, maybe? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116206

Diff[usion|erential] migration

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly

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/

• bd808+Lego's composer plugin to be in Differential, Mukunda on it
  • issue with firewall'd phab box and the proxy - ping ops :) ("good luck")

Release MediaWiki 1.26

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

Nag e-mail sent last week.

Board pruned, down to 14 actual blockers. Going to push on all the assigned ones and find assignees for the remainder this week.

Beta Cluster

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

Other Work

• EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference, Salzburg, Austria) report (Željko, 5 minutes)