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2016-10-31 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

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

  • October 28 - Nov 2 - Chad (vacation to Cabo)
  • October 31: Mukunda
  • Oct 31st/Nov 1st - Antoine (bank holiday, equivalent of halloween)
  • Nov 1st - Željko (bank holiday)
  • November 4th: Mukunda
  • Friday Nov 11rd - Antoine (bank holiday, WW1 and other wars commemorations)
  • November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
  • November 24+25: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
  • December 26-30: XMas Holiday
  • January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
  • January 9-11: Dev Summit
  • January 12-13: All Hands
  • January 16: MLK Jr Day
  • February 20: President's Day
  • March 13: New day off for some reason
  • April 14: New day off for some reason

Team Business edit

Time spent spreadsheet edit

Rotating positions and absences edit

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Oct 17 and Oct 24 edit

Oct 31 and Nov 7 edit

Actions from last meeting edit

  • Audit if any other projects than MW+Ext use gating

costs:

  • costs of the individuals tests/check in terms of time (pre-merge things)
  • costs in terms of multiple people looking at things that are older

Scrum of Scrums edit

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

This week edit

Last week edit

  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates
    • Migrating Jenkins/Zuul on November 1st (morning Pacific time): there will be downtime


Other Team Business edit

QA Hire edit

  • interview loop level setting this week

Offsite edit

  • Follow-ups / EVARYTHING

Q2 goal/project check-in edit

Future of CI plan edit

Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.



Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1) edit

Use a unified git repo for MW deploys edit

  • it kinda exists, it's neat, fun to play with, still under discussion

Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW edit

Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing edit

Release MediaWiki 1.28 edit

TODO:

    • Sync up with Darian re security release out prior to general release
      • one last 1.26 before EOL

Wednesday Nov. 1st

  • 1.28.0-rc.0
  • Script for backports? No idea :(

Non-Quarterly goal work edit

Browser tests edit

Beta Cluster edit

Phabricator edit

DB Inconsistencies edit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )


People status updates edit

Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • Catch up with reviews/Phabricator spam
  • Migrate some more jobs to Nodepool
  • Prepare CI for REL1_28
  • Finish prepare steps for gallium -> contint1001 migration
  • Confirm date of gallium -> contint1001 migration
  • ?? proof check offsite documents ??

This week edit

Chad edit

Last week edit

  • Train
  • Tidying up some of the release scripts for Tyler :)

This week edit

Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items
  • Set up proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
  • Work on CI MEGACHART

This week edit

  • Work on QA "checkpoint" costs diagrams
    • Show verification logic for unit/integration/end-to-end tests, etc.
    • Represent computational and human costs associated with (re)testing feedback along the pipeline stages
  • Continue hacking on proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
  • Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

  • Train on Wed/Thurs
  • Catch up on phabricator tasks
  • Upload photos from offsite

This week edit

Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Feature flag for deploy-local command change
  • Figure out test env for scap3 mw things
    • Mostly done

This week edit

  • 1_28
  • CI switch
  • scap 3.3.1

Željko edit

Last week edit

  • Sick
  • Catching up on mail

This week edit

  • Catching up
  • T108108 Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests
  • T94577 mediawiki_selenium feature to show/capture Selenium WebDriver requests to remote browser.
  • Senior QA Analyst hiring
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