2015-12-14

Vacations/Confs/etc

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

Dec 14-Jan 1: Greg - vacation (3 weeks, will be checking email)
Dec 14: Mukunda sick
Dec 22-29: Chad - Christmas (will be reachable by e-mail, will have laptop in case of emergencies)
Dec 23–25: Tyler — Hopeful, probable, Christmas in Kansas!
Dec 24-Jan 3: Dan - Holidays
Dec 24-30: Antoine - Holidays (bringing laptop - ring phone as needed)
Dec 24: mukunda - holiday
Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
Dec 28: mukunda - holiday
Dec 31: mukunda - holiday
Dec 24-25: Željko - holidays
Dec 31-Jan 1: Željko - holidays
Jan 1: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
Jan 4 - 8: WikiDev16 + All Hands
Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
- PO Box for pastries? - Antoine
May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
June-ish: Chad - EDC
August: France holiday - because french. :)

Team Business

Actions from last meeting

TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task

WIkiDev16

Code Review RFC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114320
Scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045

Other

Q3 Goals

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q3

Goals timeline:
- December 3: Group goal scoped and drafted on mediawiki.org for Technology team.
- December 10: Group goal + all individual team *drafts completed* on mediawiki.org; discuss at Infra+Tech group and identify dependencies.
- December 17: individual team goals + group goal *finalized* on mediawiki.org; discuss at Monthly Eng Staff.

"Migrate Jenkins to Jessie"
- Needs a task for it (please add to the wiki page)
- commitment from those in our team who will help

Dan will be in the Technology Group meetings and can communicate anything needed to/from them re-goals (or anything else)

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

TMPDIR can not be deleted by jenkins-deploy user because they are owned by www-data
- Most probably caused by mwext-mw-selenium and SKIP_TMPFS which change TMPDIR -- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120824

Deployment Tooling / Scap3

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

Working with Marko to try to update service::node, deploy for lots of services
restructuring continues
Scap context patch https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D70 is ready for final review, no longer a WIP

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/

gitblit redirection in progress, couple more patches in flight.

Other Work

Experimented with Appium support in MW-Selenium a little bit
- Slow as hell but works

Precise phase out

"Migrate Jenkins to Jessie"
- Needs a task for it (please add to the wiki page)
- commitment from those in our team who will help

vary between PHP Versions. Required to migrate Jenkins jobs to Jessie/Nodepool
- 5.3 (old mw)
- 5.5
- HHVM

When Zend is out of prod, no more need to run Zend jobs in CI for wmf branches \O/

almost finished with migration of repositories to mediawiki_selenium 1.x (T94083), the only one left is CirrusSearch (T99653)
- Need Android back for VE, tag a new mediawiki_selenium and bump VE?