2014-10-07

Team Business

One card (ops/release) Phabricator related:

Lots happening in Phabricator world.....

We announced that the wikimedia phabricator is now open to everyone...
- log in (or register) and try to break it
- link your account to LDAP and OAuth provider here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/external/
New projects opening on hold till Bugzilla migration
- bug qgil if you have an urgent need for a new project before the migration
Lots of tasks finally closed out of spite. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/oRIJDB5MpxjI/#R

Summary: currently app servers sync l10nupdate from tin instead of using the rsync proxies just like scap does. BitTorrent?!!

(Antoine) All jobs depending on mediawiki core now have mediawiki/vendor cloned as well. Unblocks Bryan Davis changes to core logging
(Antoine, Timo) Nasty regression in Jenkins Git plugin under Trusty (fixed)
(Zeljkof, Tobi) Wmde browsertests jobs migrated \O/
(Antoine, Dan, Zeljkof) JJB macro to easily run bundle commands
(Timo) Labs slaves monitoring: https://integration.wikimedia.org/monitoring/
(Antoine) Integration job to assert our PHPUnit fork works with mw/core release branches / master
(Antoine, devs) pywikibot running python3.4 tests on Ubuntu Trusty
Proposal to merge JJB and Zuul config repositories (see QA list)
ACTION self deploy on +2

Andrew has been too busy (migrating LDAP) to order new hardware for nightly cluster Still hoping to do that soon.
Nightly cluster need resources from the whole engineering team. (Antoine, Greg during 1/1)

(Dan) Checking in with MM team about MMV metrics and need (or not) to setup traffic shaping
- http://multimedia-metrics.wmflabs.org/dashboards/mmv#media_viewer_vs_file_page-graphs-tab
(Dan) Helping Zero with first browser tests for the Zero Portal
(Dan) Moving ahead on environment abstraction layer
(Tobi, Zeljkof, Antoine) Jenkins Performance Plugin enabled on all jobs (see QA list)
(Antoine, Dan, Zeljkof) Firefox local browser tests have a race condition killing Xvfb

(Dan) Draft of survey is in Qualtrics (needs final feedback)
(Dan) Tech Talk in November with Bryan Davis
Install party at Dev Summit: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Developer_Summit_2015#Workshops

10/8: Zeljko - Croation Holiday
10/6 - 10/10 Chris vacation
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)