Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160121

2016-01-21

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Vacations/Important dates

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

  • Jan 30-31st - FOSDEM - Antoine
  • Feb 3rd - core narrative annual plan due
  • Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
  • March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
  • March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
  • March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
  • April 1st - Q4 goals published
  • May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
  • May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
  • Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
  • May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
  • June (mid): Chad - EDC
  • June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
  • July 1st - Q1 goals published
  • July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
  • August: France holiday - because french. :)
  • January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

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=== Actions from last meeting ===
  • TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
    • ACTION: Antoine to create a task
      • Overdue

KPIs

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https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis

New vs Maint time spent

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Scrum of Scrums

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


Other Team Business

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Q3 QR

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slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RusyM47cmNMH9b7rntq6YzlsQZ0IIHYxfbTgucMdeO0/edit#slide=id.gdca235235_0_0

Skill matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix


Hackathon attendance

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Who wants to go?

  • Antoine: no
  • Chad: no
  • Dan: no
  • Greg: no
  • Mukunda:no
  • Tyler: no
  • Zeljko: not sure. probably no

Team Offsite

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When? (See email thread)


pwstore?

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Moritz pinged re https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104306 "Manage Appveyor account"

  • Also Github role accounts, TravisCI? Etc?


Annual Planning

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Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Tracking_core_and_strategic_work

Past ideas and things:

To discuss: How to go about this team planning.

Planning etherpad (for any notes we want to create on this): https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1617-plan-ideas

NOTES MOVED TO ^^^

Q3 goal/project check-in

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Reduce CI Wait time

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KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen


Consolidate deploy tools

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Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313
Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926


Differential Migration

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https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31
Shepherd the RFC - task T119908
Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320
Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Other Work

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