Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150224

= 2015-02-24 =

Team Business

 * Hackathon proposals
 * Buddies: tbd is fine
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90468 - Wikimedia Site Requests sprint
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90177 - Android app end-to-end regression test in SauceLabs
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90577 - Load i18n messages from MediaWiki to browser tests
 * Pre-hackathon offsite
 * Greg let Quim know about team offsite
 * speak/design code review in Diffusion?
 * level up on beta cluster/JJB/CI/isolation etc
 * Deployment workflow overhauling

Team Workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/?order=priority

Scrum of Scrums

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
 * Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%2Cstalled&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-arpazvuktn2l647rb6us#R


 * Chris is on vacation for next week's Scrum of Scrums. Who will take it?
 * Dan will take it next week

Beta Cluster stability

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/staging/


 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/staging-machines

Isolated CI instances

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority
 * Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499


 * EPIC/Long term goal: Make browser tests voting
 * [project] trigger browser tests from Gerrit (tracking) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55697
 * Should I make that task blocked by T47499?
 * Antoine: +1
 * Looking at packaging Zuul
 * Yuvi back so can loop back with him regarding architecture
 * TL;DR: Antoine relocated and killed his main laptop (water on keyboard) :-/

MediaWiki Releases

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.25-release/ (EOL: June 2016)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.24-release/ (EOL: Nov 2015)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.23-release/ (LTS, EOL: May 2017)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.19-release/ (LTS, EOL: May 2015)


 * Security release coming Real Soon Now(TM) from Chris

Other Work

 * Move browser test alerts to responsible teams' channels from -releng - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89375
 * Could look at sending them emails as well
 * Let's make a schedule for analyzing browser test failures in Jenkins. Chris and Rummana to work on this today in our regular pairing session.
 * Let's keep merging EAL stuff into repos.
 * MultiMedia team has been needing browser test support in recent times, will probably continue to need it for some time.
 * Chris continues to hack on process description while meeting f2f with Arthur/TPG to keep things reasonable. RelEng and TPG have a lot in common, we need to keep exploiting that and not go different directions.
 * Working on voting jobs for mw-vagrant unit and acceptance tests
 * Polishing mw-selenium rubocop config/fixes for 1.0.0 release
 * Working on mockups for browser test dashboard
 * MediaWiki core handling of sqlite is causing stability issues. This is making a singificant number of builds fail. Tim Starling and Aaron getting involved to help out. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89180
 * MModell is rethinking the deployment train process: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89945 (check out the pretty branching-graph thanks to gitgraph.js)

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * mmodell vacation 2/26
 * Chris vacation 2/3/4 March
 * Week before hackathon: Team offsite in France - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89036
 * May: Hackathon in Lyon, France
 * Lyon used to be the capital of the area a long time ago. Nice old city, lot of great food, reasonably sunny/hot.