Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Meetings/2019-03-07

Agenda

The goal of this meeting is to review what's happened since yesterday's meeting and plan work until next meeting.

Actions from previous meeting:

• Done: Lars to check with his friend Vince about what NetSurf does for OS X building
• Done: Brennen to also ask his own friend
• Done: Dan to help debug the Blubber build problem with Lars.
• Done: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217594 (GitLab CI)
• TODO: Lars: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595 (Concourse CI)
• Done: Brennen to continue work on spreadsheet during the day.
• Done: Brennen to add "open core y/n" to spreadsheet.
• TODO: Brennen to take next piece of software for evaluation off the stack once spreadsheet is more filled out.
• TODO: Dan to reach out to mobile developers at WMF to gather requirements for what's needed for building and testing moble apps in CI.

Notes

• Lars talked to Vince about OS X building. Vince uses Apple hardware and it's fragile.
• Brennen heard pretty much the same.
• We can rent managed Macs.

• Lars has to evaluated GitLab-CI.
  • TODO: Write up in ticket.

• TODO: Lars to look at Concourse CI.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217595
  • Still in progress.

• Discussion on Jon Robson's meeting on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199004 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212521
  • Seem sensible.
  • Might not be directly relevant to the WG.
  • Supporting a dev-customisable command to run before build and deploy seems like a good thing to have.
  • Neither ticket seems directly relevant to the WG. We will empower developers to do what they need to do.
  • TODO: Lars to ask Robson to invite Brennen to the meeting.

• When shall we meet next? What should we do by then?
  • Candidate for Brennen to pick.
    • TODO: Brennen to create ticket for evaluation of sourcehut
    • TODO: Brennen to double-check gerrithub
    • TODO: Željko to continue to look for more possible candidates
  • Next meeting: Friday 16:00 UTC

Actions

• TODO: Lars to draft next blog post