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