Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-02-26

Last Time: 2019-02-19

TODOs from last time

• TODO thcipriani to followup to make task for adding token for auto-deployment
  •  Done Add k8s credentials for Blubberoid continuous deployment

Updates

• citoid, cxserver gearing up for deployment
• eventgate deployment looks to have happened this morning!
• blubber.wikimedia.org/v1 now used by pipelinelib in production
• Pipeline Developer Feedback got lots of feedback (thanks all!) -- should be ready to go Soon™
  • Maybe emails as next step? cf: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177868#4984766
  • Maybe IRC channels too?
  • Phabricator has a comment thread for tags
  • Two different kinds of tags: annotated and plain tags
  • Is git tag the right way to make a release?
  • Gerrit has a concept of "Notifications" for projects in your settings
  • Mail configuration settings are hard. Be afraid. Write your own MTA and MLM.
• Pipeline image build cleanup thcipriani reviewing
  • Did roughly this:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177867#4516303 yesterday

Meta

• "Another meeting that could have been an email"
• Unblocking/Shared ownership for Deployment Pipeline + adjacent technologies
• cf: [#discussion Discussion]

Discussion

• Lars: update on CI future WG status
  • There is a prelim list of requirements
  • There is a list of options to evaluate
  • tl;dr: work has started, look out for changes
  • Dev productivity survey results may be useful here