Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161024

2016-10-24

Vacations/Important dates

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

• October 31 & November 4th: Mukunda
• October 28 - Nov 2 - Chad (vacation to Cabo)
• Oct 31st/Nov 1st - Antoine (bank holiday, equivalent of halloween)
• Friday Nov 11rd - Antoine (bank holiday, WW1 and other wars commemorations)
• November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
• November 24+25: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
• December 26-30: XMas Holiday
• January 9-11: Dev Summit
• January 12-13: All Hands

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 42: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=0

Rotating positions and absences

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

weeks of Oct 03 and Oct 10

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.21
  • wmf.22
• SoS: Chad
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/25
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/26
• Out:
  • October 10: US Holiday (Indigenous People's Day)

Oct 17 and Oct 24

• Train: Chad+Mukunda splitting
  • no train week of Oct 17
  • wmf.23
    • Chad on Tues, Mukunda on Wed/Thurs
• SoS: Tyler
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/27
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/28

Oct 31 and Nov 7

• Train: Tues:Tyler, Wed/Thurs:Mukunda
  • [ wmf.24]
  • [ wmf.25]
• SoS: Dan
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/29
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/30
• Out:
  • November 1st: Antoine (France holiday: all-saints)

Actions from last meeting

• Greg: explore with Andrew/Daniel/Someone after our team meeting(s) on Monday to sync up with what we need from Ops
  • Greg to ping probably after gallium migration

Scrum of Scrums

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

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

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Migrating Jenkins/Zuul on November 1st (morning Pacific time): there will be downtime

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • REMINDER: No MW Train next week!

Other Team Business

• QA Hire:
  • Sent to Recruiting

Offsite

• Follow-ups / EVARYTHING

Q2 goal/project check-in

Future of CI plan

Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.

• Yuuup

Release MediaWiki 1.28

• Determine branch dates and release date (Nov 2/9/16/23)
  • Email to go out about branching next week (wmf.23 this week, wmf.24 next week?)
  • Couple of minor things to tidy up first, access, etc.

TODO:

• • Sync up with Darian re security release out prior to general release
    • one last 1.26 before EOL

• CI config for REL1_29 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148987

Non-Quarterly goal work

Phabricator

DB Inconsistencies

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Catch up with reviews/Phabricator spam
• Migrate some more jobs to Nodepool
• Prepare CI for REL1_28
• Finish prepare steps for gallium -> contint1001 migration
• Confirm date of gallium -> contint1001 migration
• ?? proof check offsite documents ??

Chad

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Train
• Tidying up some of the release scripts for Tyler :)

Dan

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items
• Set up proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
• Work on CI MEGACHART

Mukunda

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Train on Wed/Thurs
• Catch up on phabricator tasks
• Upload photos from offsite

Tyler

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Feature flag for deploy-local command change
• Figure out test env for scap3 mw things
  • Mostly done

Željko

Last week

• Offiste

This week

• Sick
• Catching up on mail