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
 * ✅ 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