Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141007

2014-10-07

Team Business

• All Hands Excursion
  • https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1qTLhQstAiTIHH6iBjHINLuaOaZHs1CnIAYWmcLjxQCM/edit#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

• Dependency wall: (grrr spam filter)

One card (ops/release) Phabricator related:

• https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/119

Phabricator

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

Deployment tooling

• [Ops] LocalisationUpdate == useless Tin

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

Jenkins

• (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

Beta cluster

• 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)

Browser tests

• (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

Vagrant

• (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

Hiring

• Elena starts on Tuesday (SF based)

Vacations/Confs/etc

• 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)