Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150512

Team Business

• Gerrit Upgrade? 2.8.x https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65847#1268528 2.11 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70271
  • Christian and I have been talking about it a bit. Won't happen until June at the earliest.
    • Christian posted an update at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70271#1271255 all good to me.
      • OpenStack reverted 2.11 upgrade due to JGit http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2015-May/002750.html (pasted on our task)
• Any sessions we want to pre-schedule for the hackathon?
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92565
• Annecy Hotel? Where is it?
  • http://www.hotel-beauregard.com/seminaires-hotel-beauregard_94-149.aspx

Composer dependencies:

• the issue at https://github.com/wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin/issues/18 needs to be pointed to legoktm and bd808 or find a champion to implement it.
• Goals are:
  • run composer once during CI on master, build output to mediawiki/vendor, use vendor repo for wmf branches
  • handle WMDE extensions the same way we handle other extensions (they depends on composer autoloader generation)
• Bryan busy enough. Kunal probably as well. Thus we are looking for a champion, should it be in our team? else whom?

Agreed Greg to reach Bryan/Kunal and find a strategy to have some people to own the composer/dependencies

Weekly Triages

Setup

• Continuous Integration (Antoine)
  • Doing Tuesday mornings at 7am Pacific. Antoine: might shift it to better accomodate SF, depends on familly though
• Deployment-Systems Proposal: Mondays 10:50-11:20am Pacific (after deployment cabal) +1
  • Doing during the weekly deployment systems working group meeting? - just realized beta-cluster and deployment systems are two separate meetings? can we combine those?
    • Agreed: up to meeting participants
• Beta-Cluster
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98204
• Browser-Tests
  • Dan+Zeljko: 8:30am Pacific on Wednesdays (post Hackathon)
  • From our CI weekly meeting, feel free to tag JJB related tasks with #Continuous-Integration-Config

Unknown

• Beta-Cluster
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98204
  • Andrew is done messing with instances for a little while

Locking: is this a thing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96199 /var on deployment-bastion is grumpy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98886

To discuss

• Phabricator
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/phabricator/
  • potentially during our weekly meeting?
  • Mostly feature requests / upstream stuff
• Wikimedia-Git-or-Gerrit
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-git-or-gerrit/
  • Upgrade Gerrit? no, see above
  • In maintenance mode, dealing with repo creations, ACL etc
• Release-Engineering workboard
  • to be discussed in Annecy
• Staging
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/staging/
  • Should probably at least move things out of "in-progress" that aren't really in-progress anymore :)
  • ACTION: Tyler to groom them a bit this week

Team Quarterly Goals

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/O9isnUt5IGLP/#R

Scrum of Scrums

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

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

Beta Cluster stability / Staging

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

Deployment Cabal

• replacing the mediawiki extension submodules with subrepos: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98834

Test history

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

Isolated CI instances

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

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

MediaWiki Releases

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

2 weeks to release date!

rc.0 came out last week

probably need an rc.1 before release on 5/25

Hiring

• Automation Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62416
  • (short link grnh.se/gj5op4)

Vacations/Confs/etc

• Dan in France the week before offsite (May 11-15, leaving evening of Thursday May 7)
• Antoine: observing french holidays: Thurs May 14 + May 15th :(
• 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)
• Andrew Bogott: May 20-26, hackathon &c., July 18-27, mostly unreachable