2016-03-23

Vacations/Important dates

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

March 24th Thursday - Antoine (sick)
March 25th Friday - Tyler + Mukunda
March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
April 1st - Q4 goals published
April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks (probably 2nd, April 11-15)
April 14-15 - Željko - conference
May 6th Friday - Antoine
May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
July 1st - Q1 goals published
July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

Rotating positions

Train conductor

Week of ...

Mar 14: Mukunda
Mar 21: Tyler
Mar 28: Tyler
Apr 4: Dan
Apr 11: Dan

Scrum of Scrums representative

(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...

Mar 14: Chad
Mar 21: Mukunda
Mar 28: Mukunda
Apr 4: Tyler
Apr 11: Tyler

CI point person

ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with

Actions from last meeting

TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
  - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129285

Annual Planning

Update: People are turning our stuff into a document that will be shared with the FDC with everyone else's.

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan/Release_Engineering_Narrative

Our 3 projects:

Q3 goal/project check-in

Consolidate deploy tools

Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313

Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

A few patches left before cutting 3.1 branch
- including sub-commands maybe? to discuss
- definitely git-fat support
- scap restart would be "delightful"
citoid migrated!!! :)
- take one down, pass it around, 99 more to go
mathoid is unblocked
phabricator is done
ORES in-progress (python wheels)
- Work on that front can be reused for deployment of Zuul (currently .deb packages embedding deps)

Differential Migration

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

Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31

Shepherd the RFC - task T119908

Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Greg to do https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130664
ACTION: Greg to request the RFC talk page to be flowified
Mukunda to deploy the git repo redirect script today (via scap3)

Reduce CI Wait time

KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen

Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138

php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139
as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140

Migrate Jenkins to Jessie - task T124121

Tyler pointed at https://www.dotdeb.org , provides bunch of PHP versions as .deb packages.

(~300(!!)) mediawiki/extensions npm job switched to Nodepool instances on Tuesday \O/
concern: NodeJS 4.3 but still npm 1.x , should be npm 2.x. Gotta find a good way to provision it in the image giventhere is no npm 2.x deb package
deployed chunks of Paladox changes to add npm/composer on various mw extensions

Other Work

Browser tests

temporarily paused the cleanup of failed tests until migration to the new way of running browser tests is done ("browser-tests" -> "selenium-tests")
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190
as soon as Math is green then we can start moving the rest
First version of the new JS framework packaged! https://www.npmjs.com/package/malu (!!)