2016-01-25

Vacations/Important dates

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

Jan 29- Feb 1st - FOSDEM - Antoine. Travel Friday afternoon, back monday Noon (CET)
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

=== Actions from last meeting ===

TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
  - Overdue

Other Team Business

Hackathon attendance

Who wants to go?

Antoine: no
Chad: no
Dan: no
Greg: no
Mukunda:no
Tyler: no
Zeljko: no

Trains shift first week of Febuary

Can we move them one hour later? Antoine would like to pair deploy it and level up :-} Ie:

Tuesday, February 02 MediaWiki Wednesday, February 03 Thursday, February 04

Would like to shift by an hour ie:

   11:00–13:00 PST --> 12:00 - 14:00 PST
   Or 21:00 -> 23:00 CET

Outcome: Agreed.

Idea: Grafana Deployment dashboard

Something that keeps track of salient stats in grafana
Often don't need the detail that logstash provides while deploying (post-deploy/problem determination: sure; while deploying: is shit blowing up?)
Something like HTTP error rate + Mediawiki errors. Annotate with sync-wikiversions, something like that
- Played a bit with annotations this weekend...found out that they are poorly documented: http://docs.grafana.org/reference/annotations/

Annual Planning

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

Reduce CI Wait time

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

Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138

php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139
as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140

Migrate Jenkins to Jessie - task T124121

Consolidate deploy tools

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

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")

Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160125

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