Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141104

=2014-11-04=

Team Business

 * No meeting next week (govt holidays)

Scrum of Scrums
(kept as long url because all short url providers are blocked by mw.org)
 * Dependency wall

Phabricator

 * Security and Herald - two herald rules (one admin one that sets security first, second one runs last to sanitize)
 * phabricator is spamming wikibugs-l, trying to deal with that somehow

Deployment tooling

 * Sean merged the l10n change (!!)
 * l10nupdate still disabled

Jenkins

 * RFC draft "Multiple repositories tested together" published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Extensions_continuous_integration (Antoine)
 * ACTION please please give it a look and give some feedback :D
 * One Zuul patch deployed, still pending upstream reviews (Antoine)
 * Antoine busy at OpenStack summit the whole week
 * Timo moving more jobs from prod slave to labs slave running Trusty (Timo)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1074
 * (Zeljkof) Rubocop done, announcement has been sent to wikitech list last week

Beta cluster

 * Monitoring effort going on:
 * Low level graphs of instances (YuviPanda, Timo) https://tools.wmflabs.org/nagf/?project=deployment-prep https://tools.wmflabs.org/nagf/?project=integration
 * Icinga production monitoring being migrated to Shinken, to be adjusted for beta cluster context (YuviPanda)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q3#Beta_Cluster
 * to be worked in collaboration with Ops and mediawiki-core teams
 * TODO/TO-ADD: Determine who uses Beta Cluster and why. Maybe a survey like the MediaWiki/Vagrant one

Browser tests

 * Major refactor for VisualEditor tests: no more iframes. Page Object rawks.
 * More pairing with Rummana coming
 * Many Flow updates, a few more to go
 * Builds turned green today: Core, UploadWizard, and pending BZ fixes VisualEditor and MobileFrontend
 * Testing out experimental env-abstraction-layer branch of MWS
 * Finishing RuboCop setup (Željko)
 * Željko looking at browsertests/Jenkins performance issue

Vagrant

 * (Dan) Work on November presentation w/ Bryan Davis
 * (Dan) Sending mediawiki-vagrant survey to wikitech-l

Hiring

 * RelEng in-progress

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
 * 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)
 * 11/11 - Veteran's Day (US)
 * 11/27 - Thanksgiving (US)