Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150224

2015-02-24

Team Business

• Hackathon proposals
  • Buddies: tbd is fine
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90468 - Wikimedia Site Requests sprint
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90177 - Android app end-to-end regression test in SauceLabs
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90577 - Load i18n messages from MediaWiki to browser tests
• Pre-hackathon offsite
  • Greg let Quim know about team offsite
  • speak/design code review in Diffusion?
  • level up on beta cluster/JJB/CI/isolation etc
  • Deployment workflow overhauling

Team Workboard

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/?order=priority

Scrum of Scrums

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%2Cstalled&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-arpazvuktn2l647rb6us#R

• Chris is on vacation for next week's Scrum of Scrums. Who will take it?
  • Dan will take it next week

Beta Cluster stability

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/staging/

• https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/staging-machines

Isolated CI instances

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority

Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499

• EPIC/Long term goal: Make browser tests voting
  • [project] trigger browser tests from Gerrit (tracking) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55697
    • Should I make that task blocked by T47499?
      • Antoine: +1
• Looking at packaging Zuul
• Yuvi back so can loop back with him regarding architecture
• TL;DR: Antoine relocated and killed his main laptop (water on keyboard) :-/

MediaWiki Releases

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.25-release/ (EOL: June 2016)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.24-release/ (EOL: Nov 2015)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.23-release/ (LTS, EOL: May 2017)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.19-release/ (LTS, EOL: May 2015)

• Security release coming Real Soon Now(TM) from Chris

Other Work

• Move browser test alerts to responsible teams' channels from -releng - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89375
  • Could look at sending them emails as well
• Let's make a schedule for analyzing browser test failures in Jenkins. Chris and Rummana to work on this today in our regular pairing session.
• Let's keep merging EAL stuff into repos.
• MultiMedia team has been needing browser test support in recent times, will probably continue to need it for some time.
• Chris continues to hack on process description while meeting f2f with Arthur/TPG to keep things reasonable. RelEng and TPG have a lot in common, we need to keep exploiting that and not go different directions.
• Working on voting jobs for mw-vagrant unit and acceptance tests
• Polishing mw-selenium rubocop config/fixes for 1.0.0 release
• Working on mockups for browser test dashboard
• MediaWiki core handling of sqlite is causing stability issues. This is making a singificant number of builds fail. Tim Starling and Aaron getting involved to help out. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89180
• MModell is rethinking the deployment train process: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89945 (check out the pretty branching-graph thanks to gitgraph.js)

Vacations/Confs/etc

• mmodell vacation 2/26
• Chris vacation 2/3/4 March
• 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.