2015-03-31 edit

Team Business edit

April 7th - 1 hour Quarterly Review Prep Meeting: MW Core/Services/Ops/RelEng/ECT

Quarterly Priority: Green nightly builds on staging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88701

Quarterly Priority: Stable uptime metrics of the Staging cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88705

Availability graphs: https://graphite.wmflabs.org/dashboard/#availability
- So far we are averaging about 99.5% availability and this is counting 404 as non-availability so that is fairly good IMO.

Quarterly Priority: By team test history: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88706

Elasticsearch logging of Cucumber results is almost complete
Will start dashboard development this week (this is late obviously, but I'd like another week or so to work on it)

Zuul package almost done. Will deploy it on some labs instance this week
- Related doc pending
Quick presentation meeting with Andrew/Chase Wednesday

Timo / Kunal continued on:
- reducing the number of jobs (faster JJB deploys, less VM to spawn later on)
- skiping full git clones
- switch mw jobs from sqlite to mysql (official announcement pending)
phantomjs -> chromium/karma (faster runs!!)

Need a champion for "reduce copies of mediawiki/core in workspaces" https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93703

Quarterly Priority: Release MediaWiki 1.25: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88709

Branch coming in a few weeks

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deployments
Antoine fixed the CI jobs Tuesday morning. Replied to Chris Steipp on wikitech-l
- We aren't using those jobs right now. We don't like them for security releases.
  - We do when +2ing change on mw/core branches don't we +2 ? :D

Sentry deployment (Gilles / TGR) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84956 -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/199598/
- Directed Gilles to Alexandros Kosiaris
- Dan & Antoine as point of contacts
MW-Vagrant work to better accommodate service development
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89919
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92311

page-objects retrieving elements attributes over network, terribly slow down SauceLabs jobs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92613
- Example workaround: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/200767
Zeljkof created a bunch of scripts that reproduce the issue https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/page-object-minimal
add a feature to mediawiki_selenium capture / spurts Selenium Driver logs to ease debugging https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94577

Жељко: Easter Monday, Monday, April 6
Dan in France the week before offsite (May 11-15)
Antoine: observing french holidays: Mon April 6th, Fri May 1, Fri May 8, Thurs May 14
Week before hackathon: Team offsite in France - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89036
May: Hackathon in Lyon, France
Chad vacation after offsite/hackathon (through 5/31)
Elena on vacation May26-June07
Tyler out a bit early today (3/31) for elaborate april fool's prank