2015-02-10

Team Business

Other incoming work:

From Design - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76560 (updated 404/500 error page)
From MWCore - fatal/exception log ownership: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89049
- Sentry work with Gergo (tgr) of Multimedia
- Mukunda this week
From Ops/MWCore - Decouple logging infrastructure failures from MediaWiki logging - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88732
- Tyler?

Any objections if we just remove test2wiki builds? At one point they were useful, today they are just noise.
- Chris to send emails to team mail lists
- (silence) :)
- antoine: approve, no need to keep running useless broken stuff
- Željko: +1

Yuvi (beta cluster ops liaison) off for vacations Things we're block on from others?

Things we're blocked on from others?

Architecture review and approval
- Approval/budget for two new servers (?? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84940 - Acquire old production API servers for use in CI ??)
Debian packaging of NodePool & Zuul, poked ops list about it. Challenge is to solve the dependencies mess
- NodePool: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89142
- Zuul: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48552
ACTION: Antoine setup a meeting with ops.

mediawiki/tools/release.git make-release/ script is python and needs love
tag triggers a build of https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-core-release/ (creates unsigned tarballs for us)
- Job defined via Jenkins Job Builder
- Could use test suites / browser tests to be run against to validate the tarball
  - That is this suite of tests: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/view/-All/job/browsertests-Core-en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-firefox-sauce/ Feel free to review.
    - They are in mediawiki/core.git aren't they? yes.
Antoine: feel free to throw it away and rethinkt he way we automatize the release tarballs.

Dan released mediawiki-selenium gem 1.0.0.pre.1 (beta) \O/
- cheers here: \O/ ^(-_-)^
- :) :)
- (Dan) still need(s) to pair with Željko on this, possibly with Chris again as well. Yes, I got hung up in bugs all over.
established base unit-test coverage for mediawiki-vagrant plugin
Lot of browser test bugs last week.
Fixed tests for Echo and Flow
Pairing with Rummana on some hosed VE tests.
UploadWizard problems all this morning
Search is toast on beta for 2 days now.
- Chad working on this
Chris spent some time reading January's quarterly reviews. There are about 10+- teams that rely on RelEng for various things. We should work with Team Practice Group (TPG) to make those "individuals and interaction" more explicit.
- Also work with TPG to acknowledge exceptions and fatals in logstash
Wikitech now on the deployment train
- cheers here again: |_|>
CI entry point to generate doc (ex: make doc). Could use review/comment on wikitech-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080670.html . Tracked via https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88999
Will probably merge the PHPUnit and Qunit tests in a single job
PHP repos migration to composer going on (by Librarizificatition team bd808/legoktm). Switching Jenkins to it progressively.

Feb 16th: US Holiday (Presidents' Day)
Tyler will in town (SF) the week of 16th
Chris vacation sometime in March or April dates TBD.
Andrew out this Thursday and Friday (Feb. 12th and 13th)
Antoine out Friday 13th
No internet at home next week
Week before hackathon: Team offsite in France - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89036
May: Hackathon in Lyon, France
- Lyon used to be the capital of the area a long time ago. Nice old city, lot of great food, reasonably sunny/hot.