Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20151103

2015-11-03 edit

Vacations/Confs/etc edit

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

  • Nov 11: US HOLIDAY - Veterans Day - + Antoine
  • Nov 26: US HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving
  • Nov 27: US HOLIDAY - Day after Thanksgiving
  • Dec 4th: Greg - disconnected, leaving Thursday evening, returning Sunday :)
  • Dec 22-29: Chad - Christmas
  • Dec 24-Jan 3: Dan - Holidays (probably)
  • Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
  • Jan 01: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
  • Dec 2?-Jan 0x - Antoine, no clue yet
  • Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
  • Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
  • Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
  • May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
  • June-ish: Chad - EDC
  • August: France holiday - because french. :)

Team Business edit

Actions from last meeting edit

  • TODO - GREG: re KPIs, do mw core gate-processing time for this quarter, reassess for next quarter if needed
  • TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
  • DONE - Differential-crew: talk more about RFC in the weekly meeting
  • DONE - GREG: Get help from Megan/Sarah re moving the meetings around oh my god
  • TODO - EVERYONE: please review Antoine's caching proposal! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2015-October/002414.html
  • DONE - CHAD: 1.26 release: "Chad will send email to wikitech-l asking for help with the blockers today"

WIkiDev16 edit

Other edit

  • GSOC?
  • Don't forget Zeljko's conference report after this meeting :)

New vs Maint time spent edit

#together edit

Scrum of Scrums edit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R


Project Updates edit

CI Scaling edit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1010/
Quarterly Goal: "CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111106
  • still needing feedback on package manager caching
  • since blocked on ^ decided to upgrade zuul :)


Deployment Cabal edit

Main: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/349/
Scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1449/
Quarterly Goal: "Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

Diff[usion|erential] migration edit

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
Gitblit-Deprecate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/46/
Quarterly Goal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111465
Gerrit-Migration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/
  • bd808+Lego's composer plugin to be in Differential, Mukunda on it
    • issue with firewall'd phab box and the proxy - ping ops :) ("good luck")

Release MediaWiki 1.26 edit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1177/
Nag e-mail sent last week.
Board pruned, down to 14 actual blockers. Going to push on all the assigned ones and find assignees for the remainder this week.

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

Beta Cluster edit

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


Other Work edit

  • EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference, Salzburg, Austria) report (Željko, 5 minutes)