Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/SSD Sync Up/2019-04-16

Last Time: 2019-04-09

pipeline lib patches

In need of review

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502919
  • Spins up jenkins in docker
  • programatically installs default set of plugins + pipeline plugins
  • not for running in CI currently
  • running groovy + tests in JVM works fine, but doesn't work in jenkins
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502918
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502917

Implements ideas from the discussion on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267

• Discussion of ORES, existing needs met by these changes, grad students.

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220403
  • Followup ask about kask in Thursday meeting -- work still needed from us?

• Thursday Meeting
  • make meeting an email -- releng at an offsite

• Email announce
  • James_F to send after this meeitng (after a quick followup)
  • Please read/review
  • should we start doing docs before followup from that email?
    • James_F: do it and folks will offer feedback
    • Dan: generated groovy docs up -- dan to look at existing CI jobs