Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150421
2015-04-21 edit
Team Business edit
- We Are All Remoties
- non-bot-filled backchannel? +1000
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZIXzAbw1XE
- Come to Jeebus
- Announcement
- IRC Cloud - Mukunda set up IRCAnywhere at https://chat.buffers.us ;)
Team Quarterly Goals edit
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/O9isnUt5IGLP/#R
Scrum of Scrums edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%2Cstalled&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-arpazvuktn2l647rb6us#R
- Do these CI tasks need to be tracked for SoS?
Beta Cluster stability / Staging edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority
- 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
- Should I close T88705? (assuming that staging goes on hold?)
- Migration to new labvirt hosts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96678
- Which instances should I move immediately, while everyone is watching?
- deployment-bastion / to be done Wednesday Andrew morning
- deployment-db1
- deployment-db2
- What other projects should I move to the head of the line before I do a bulk 'everything else in labs' migration?
- integration , we can unpool instances from Jenkins via https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/
- staging
- cvn
Deployment Cabal edit
- Currently making a technical evaluation of suitability of ansible v. salt
- Antoine: we have salt already. Might consider talking with Ryan Lane who did a nice analysis/comparaison.
- http://ryandlane.com/blog/2014/08/04/moving-away-from-puppet-saltstack-or-ansible/
- Trebuchet is kind of terrible :\
- Antoine: in this context does 'terrible' means 'bad' or 'awesome'? :) bad
- Might want to use ansible/saltstak to replace Jenkins jobs
Test history edit
- Quarterly Priority: By team test history: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88706
- Positive feedback so far from James F and Jon R
- Need a home for Elasticsearch and UI: new instance in integration project
- AGREED new instance in 'integration project with an obvious name
- Will try to finish this week:
- Project navigation (wouldn't be "by team" without it)
- Links to create new Phab task from failure (associate task with step and show in future builds as well)
Isolated CI instances edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority
- Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499
- Rebuild our pool of current instances with smaller one running less jobs in paralell
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96629 "Convert pool from a few large slaves (4X) to more smaller slaves (1X)"
- @Andrew can we get a new instance type (between m1.small and m1.medium) for our specific usage? Wanna avoid allocating unneeded resources.
- Andrew stated it is quite easy to create a new type and associate it to a project. Just need a Phab task.
- CI checkin going on weekly basis (Tuesday 14:00 UTC or 7:00am PST)
MediaWiki Releases edit
- Quarterly Priority: Release MediaWiki 1.25: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88709