Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q2/checkin-12-01

60 (ish) day checkin on Q2 goals

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/releng-201516-q2/

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q2

30 day checkin at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q2/checkin-10-27

Reduce CI wait time

CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111106

• git cache, waiting on a deb package (which?) to be reviewed/uploaded by ops
• package manager cache: maybe gemstash
• TODO: manually trigger nodepool to spin up more instances with a lot of commits
• nodepool still doesn't send stats to statsd, need python-shade (blocked on ops) to upgrade nodepool
  • still need to patch Nodepool to reduce the stats it does send

Migrate majority of CI jobs to Nodepool

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114315

• python tox - task T119141
  • done
• ruby rake - task T119142
  • done
• javascript npm - task T119143
  • in-progress
  • move out the linters first

Reduce number of deploy tools from 3 to 2

Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

• Still working on AQS with services team in Beta Cluster
• Added docs on how to setup a repo (scap.config) (probably will help with ^)
• still working on some needed puppet changes
  • getting rid of the Trebuchet provider in Puppet

Retire Gerrit and Gitblit in favor of Phabricator

Decommission Gitblit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111465

• Still working on the URL redirection stuff
  • will fix things like the updating [[git:mediawiki/core/+/HEAD/|]] templates stuff
• Replicate open patchsets to diffusion
  • mostly doable, but the UI bits aren't clear yet
  • Chad to update ticket with updates from upstream

Code review RFC: creation, publication, discussion, feedback etc

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114311

• Drafting of the example workflow pages (not yet really started)
• Create a repo for arcanist/etc documentation (using same tooling as used in scap repo)
• RFC drafting session on Thursday (12/3)
• Mukunda to get some of the doc infra in place before (sphinx docs)

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Release MediaWiki 1.26

A quality MW 1.26 successfully released

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110486

Released last week :D

• dedicated email address for release announcements
• resourceloader issue maybe