2016-02-01

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

- Phab choking on some missing git repos https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124651 (done-ish)
- CI support for Node 4.2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119143
- Migrate to Node 4.2 in BetaCluster
  - Might be good. Antoine think Marko reinstalled all the scaXX to Jessie and migrated all services to them.
    - Seems task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124989

Other Team Business

Wikimania attendance

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page June 22–23 (pre-conference), 24–26 (main conference) and 27–28 (post-conference), 2016.

Who wants to go?

Antoine: No, unless needed
Chad: No
Dan:
Greg: No
Mukunda:No
Tyler: No
Zeljko: no preference, driving distance for me, 7 hours

Trains shift first week of Febuary

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

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&type=revision&diff=274547&oldid=274546

How long should this change last? 3weeks.

Antoine / Dan

MW-Vagrant help

Dan: HELP! Chad: sure thing

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:

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0

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")

Other Work

Gerrit migration / upgrade thingie

Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160201

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