Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-06-25

Last Time: 2019-06-18

Deployment Pipeline

In progress thcipriani -- Pipeline image build cleanup for contint1001
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/519083

In progress thcipriani -- Base Blubber policy file for CI
- need to bump blubber version

In progress pipeline config validation
- brennen working on implementation after we paired on cramming this into our brains
  - Patches soon.

Done -- Kartotherian (map rendering / OSM) and Tilerator -- discuss with serviceops
- Seems like if it is to happen, it would all be on RelEng

brennen writing an email to propose date for regular meeting w/doc writer
- Done thcipriani to bring up for thursday meeting
- tl;dr: Let's write some docs :)
  - Uncertain whether Marty will be continuing in contract.
  - TODO thcipriani: to scope task

Done make task for adding D-1/+2 or whatever voting in jenkins for PipelineBot
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226191

Determine a standard way of installing MediaWiki lib/extension dependencies within containers
- versions and load order (which isn't brought up)
- Done invitefolks to Wed. meeting
- ...but the meeting didn't happen :)
- Meeting this week: Weds 2019-06-26

v2 of CI arch doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EQuInEV-eY_5kxOZ8E1qEdLr8fb6ihwOD9V_tpVFWuU/edit
- announced on wikitech-l, inviting comments from everyone and anyone

Create an interface for the local-charts ecosystem with thoughts
- future q1 work
- Done Jeena as tech lead to decide which language to use
  - golang
  - cobra

In progress Porting from local-charts to deployment-charts ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224935 ):
- Add restbase chart (port from local-charts)
- TODO: make a phab task to describe changes needed to scaffold.sh in the charts repo to support local dev
  - go ahead and make patch set
  - poke SRE
  - thursday: SRE, how much can we break?
mediawiki/core blubber: Jam a shell script into the builder?
- TODO Decide on that post-Wednesday MW extensions meeting.