Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160201

= 2016-02-01 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Jan 29- Feb 1st - FOSDEM - Antoine. Travel Friday afternoon, back monday Noon (CET)
 * Feb 3rd - core narrative annual plan due
 * Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
 * March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
 * March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
 * March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
 * April 1st - Q4 goals published
 * May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
 * May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
 * Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June (mid): Chad - EDC
 * June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
 * July 1st - Q1 goals published
 * July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
 * August: France holiday - because french. :)
 * January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Actions from last meeting

 * TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
 * ACTION: Antoine to create a task
 * Overdue

KPIs

 * https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis

New vs Maint time spent

 * Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
 * Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R


 * Phab choking on some missing git repos https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124651 (done-ish)
 * CI support for Node 4.2 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119143
 * Migrate to Node 4.2 in BetaCluster
 * Might be good. Antoine think Marko reinstalled all the scaXX to Jessie and migrated all services to them.
 * Seems task is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124989

Wikimania attendance
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page June 22–23 (pre-conference), 24–26 (main conference) and 27–28 (post-conference), 2016.

Who wants to go?
 * Antoine: No, unless needed
 * Chad: No
 * Dan:
 * Greg: No
 * Mukunda:No
 * Tyler: No
 * Zeljko: no preference, driving distance for me, 7 hours

Trains shift first week of Febuary
Can we move them one hour later? Antoine would like to pair deploy it and level up :-} https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&type=revision&diff=274547&oldid=274546

How long should this change last? 3weeks.
 * Antoine / Dan

MW-Vagrant help
Dan: HELP! Chad: sure thing

Annual Planning

 * Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Tracking_core_and_strategic_work

Past ideas and things:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Wishlist
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-epics/
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14aLP8LumCz9ZSmViCrqFR14L6w0bPcbGbx-Z3rKmuWE/edit#gid=0

Planning etherpad (for any notes we want to create on this): https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1617-plan-ideas

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0

Reduce CI Wait time

 * KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen
 * Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool -
 * php composer (Zend and HHVM) -
 * as many miscellaneous jobs as possible -
 * Migrate Jenkins to Jessie -

Consolidate deploy tools

 * Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 -
 * Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

Differential Migration

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
 * Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure -
 * Shepherd the RFC -
 * Discuss at WikiDev16 -
 * Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Other Work

 * Gerrit migration / upgrade thingie