Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150630

2015-06-30

Team Business

• Quarterly Review
  • slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-oOygFPRNcMtEmwDfXGy3-UoztEh9Zty7vTgsOavZAQ/edit#slide=id.p

• [EPIC] iOS Dev Infrastructure MVP - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98970
• Automation Engineer position

Pairing (#together) / Weekly Triages

• Usual triages
  • Lots of vacations, lots of skipping
• Dan, Tyler, Mukunda did deployment train #together
• cut branch tuesday join!
• Noon PST, 9pm Nodepool Tueday (maybe change next week)
  • checkin and update
  • building images to use
  • 7/1 dan/antoine - 7/8 - dan/zeljko/antoine
• Tuesday afternoonish cache puppet beta-cluster rumble

Scrum of Scrums

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

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%28%29&projects=PHID-PROJ-arpazvuktn2l647rb6us#R

• Security scan on beta cluster (Dan has patch) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72181 )
• Candidate for a varnish cache on Jessie ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98758 )

Beta Cluster

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

• /home is now local
• small NFS outage last week
• lots of cleanup for NFS mounts, etc: little things, big changes
• nutcracker proxy fell over Sunday, restarted Monday

Deployment Cabal

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal/2015-06-29
• Setting up staging RESTBase servers as a test environment
• staging-restbase01.staging.eqiad.wmflabs

Isolated CI instances

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

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

• Jessie slaves https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94836
  • includes mediawiki:::packages
  • needs systemd for xvfb
  • php5-fss / php-luasandbox

Developer Tooling (MW-Vagrant, MW-Selenium, etc.)

• Voting browser tests builder almost there! (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103039)
  • Blocked by an upstream bug in the headless gem
    • PR: https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless/pull/60
• Based on BarryBot by Jon that runs browser tests and report to Gerrit

Hiring

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Vacations/Confs/etc

Please add your time off to your gcal and ADP, as appropriate

• Mukunda: June 29-30, if I can get someone to take over branching next tuesday?
  • Tyler and Dan #together
• US Holiday - Friday July 3rd
• Tyler - July 1-3 - family coming to town for that week
• Greg: July 6-12th - vacation without connection
• Antoine: July 14th (Bastille day) - August 1st- 23rd
• Wikimania: Dan, Zeljko, Tyler - 7/13ish - 7/20ish
• Andrew Bogott: July 18-27, mostly unreachable
• Chad: July 25-28 (Thur-Sun), reachable by e-mail
• Antoine: Aug 1st - 22nd (3 weeks!)