Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141014

2014-10-14

Scrum of Scrums

• Dependency wall: https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/list?style=list&tab=All

Jenkins

• Jobs created with Jenkins Job Builder should now properly register ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63758 )
• Tobi completed WD migrated (refractor in-progress)
  • rubucop etc
• "Jenkins Performance"
  • No remaining time last to reproduce it

Beta cluster

• virt100x outage last week, we have lost deployment-cxserver01 . Had trouble rebuilding it due to labs partitionning improvement. Kindly fixed and enhanced by Andrew/Coren
• Andrew and Rob reviewing quotes for additional virt hardware today (re: new beta cluster)
• Maybe we need to backup instances
• Second beta cluster still being discussed

Browser tests

• Stuff went red while Chris was away
• mediawiki/selenium has env to fix xvfb race condition. Only used for local browser tests though.
• since all jobs are on Sauce, should we stop throttling them?
  • Let Chris work on getting the builds back to green first
  • Jobs were running SauceLabs and had timeouts, so unrelated to xvfb race condition
  • Conclusion: keep them throttle-
• Continuing work on environment abstraction

Vagrant

• Release trafficcontrol MWV role (uses tc + iptables to simulate network conditions)
  • Perform MMV perf tests using trafficcontrol profiles
• Distribute survey! (today)

Hiring

• Elena starts today(!!)
  • Buddying with James and Rummana, I chatted with her yesterday, will sync up later in the week as well
    • Chris wrote this long ago but it's still mostly relevant: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/first_week
  • welcome email to-be-sent (already written)

Vacations/Confs/etc

• 10/13 - 10/17 Greg at MediaWiki Core offsite
• 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
• 10/21-22-23 Chris in SF (Elisabeth Hendrickson talk at WMF Oct 22)
• 10/27 - 10/29 Chris at Google Test Automation Conference Seattle
• 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
• 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
• 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)