Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141104

2014-11-04

Team Business

• No meeting next week (govt holidays)

Scrum of Scrums

• Dependency wall

(kept as long url because all short url providers are blocked by mw.org)

Phabricator

• Security and Herald - two herald rules (one admin one that sets security first, second one runs last to sanitize)
• phabricator is spamming wikibugs-l, trying to deal with that somehow

Deployment tooling

• Sean merged the l10n change (!!)
• l10nupdate still disabled

Jenkins

• RFC draft "Multiple repositories tested together" published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extensions_continuous_integration (Antoine)
  • ACTION please please give it a look and give some feedback :D
• One Zuul patch deployed, still pending upstream reviews (Antoine)
• Antoine busy at OpenStack summit the whole week
• Timo moving more jobs from prod slave to labs slave running Trusty (Timo)
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1074
• (Zeljkof) Rubocop done, announcement has been sent to wikitech list last week

Beta cluster

• Monitoring effort going on:
  • Low level graphs of instances (YuviPanda, Timo) https://tools.wmflabs.org/nagf/?project=deployment-prep https://tools.wmflabs.org/nagf/?project=integration
  • Icinga production monitoring being migrated to Shinken, to be adjusted for beta cluster context (YuviPanda)
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q3#Beta_Cluster
  • to be worked in collaboration with Ops and mediawiki-core teams
  • TODO/TO-ADD: Determine who uses Beta Cluster and why. Maybe a survey like the MediaWiki/Vagrant one

Browser tests

• Major refactor for VisualEditor tests: no more iframes. Page Object rawks.
  • More pairing with Rummana coming
• Many Flow updates, a few more to go
• Builds turned green today: Core, UploadWizard, and pending BZ fixes VisualEditor and MobileFrontend
• Testing out experimental env-abstraction-layer branch of MWS
• Finishing RuboCop setup (Željko)
• Željko looking at browsertests/Jenkins performance issue

Vagrant

• (Dan) Work on November presentation w/ Bryan Davis
• (Dan) Sending mediawiki-vagrant survey to wikitech-l

Hiring

• RelEng in-progress

Vacations/Confs/etc

• 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
• 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)
• 11/11 - Veteran's Day (US)
• 11/27 - Thanksgiving (US)