2016-03-28

Vacations/Important dates

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

March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
April 1st - Q4 goals published
April 1st - FDC Annual Plan Narrative going to the FDC
April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks (probably 2nd, April 11-15)
April 14-15 - Željko - conference
May 6th Friday - Antoine
May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
July 1st - Q1 goals published
July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

Rotating positions

Train conductor

Week of ...

Mar 14: Mukunda
Mar 21: Tyler
Mar 28: Tyler
Apr 4: Dan
Apr 11: Dan

Scrum of Scrums representative

(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...

Mar 14: Chad
Mar 21: Mukunda
Mar 28: Mukunda
Apr 4: Tyler
Apr 11: Tyler

CI point person

Actions from last meeting

ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
- AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with
ACTION: Greg to request the RFC talk page to be flowified
- DONE, Greg JFDI: Talk:Requests_for_comment/Migrate_code_review_and_management_to_Phabricator_from_Gerrit

New vs Maint time spent

Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0

Other Team Business

Time to update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix :)

I think these are done:
- Zeljko
- Mukunda
- Dan
- Chad
Just need:
- Tyler
- Antoine

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Scrum of Scrums

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

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

Phabricator event for testing if it's useful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155

Blocked on us:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125999 - debian-glue, Greg to sync up with antoine
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123718 - kill gitblit

Annual Planning

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan/Release_Engineering_Narrative

Our 3 projects:

Q3 goal/project check-in

!!! Our last check-in of the quarter :D

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

Citoid moved
changeprop moved
- Problems were configuration/puppet
ORES still going
Check robustness
Puppet work for scap::master

Differential Migration

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly

Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31

Shepherd the RFC - task T119908

Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

wiki page edits by Greg
special:version links to diffusion now (in master, rolling out this week)
- will deploy the updated mapping this week so it's so fresh and so clean :)

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

Non-Quarterly Goal Work

Browser tests

continued work on malu
- improving test coverage
- api layer for user creation
  - one privileged user to create new users per need
  - potentially allow parallel testing (more easily)
- TODO: need to setup CI config for malu

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