Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141021

=2014-10-21=

Team Business

 * Phabricator workboard discussion
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
 * Make sure you have an account :)
 * Join the "project"
 * Things to think about, we probably want to take a 2 hour chunk of time to do this well enough:
 * What is our generalized process? We can keep our current process and make the tool match that.
 * "size" of things in this specific board (do we need two?)
 * "Blocked" column?
 * "Needs review" column?
 * "Done" column (and related "Archive" column)?
 * other things?

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

Phabricator

 * Direct phabricator / migration questions to the #wikimedia-devtools irc channel
 * QChris finished the phabricator plugin for gerrit, we should see gerritbot posting to phabricator soon
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169
 * See a sample of data migrated from bugzilla to phabricator to get a feel for how it's going to look and identify any problems:
 * Preview instance: https://bugzillapreview.wmflabs.org
 * (antoine) it (phabricator upstream:) is awesome. Can fill bug at https://secure.phabricator.com/ which are triaged quickly

Deployment tooling

 * ready to merge the l18n stuff
 * sync up with Niklas re l18n

Jenkins
Zuul / Gearman related:
 * Jobs being stuck in Zuul queue due to an error not being handled https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72113, patch proposed upstream
 * Jobs not being triggered by Zuul suddenly https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63760, hard to track
 * Fixed: "Jenkins: jobs created via JJB are not properly registered in Zuul Gearman server" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63758, pending upstream release although already deployed
 * (Zeljkof, Antoine) some rubocop ruby2.0 related work over the week.

Beta cluster

 * Have some Icinga/Graphite monitoring in staff. Not sure whom to notify beside Yuvi, Greg and I. Ideas? Maybe a public mailling list similar to qa-alerts ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa-alerts/ ), but not qa-alerts since it is super spammy. Maybe betacluster-alerts or something
 * create a task in the workboard (greg)
 * Andrew is still waiting on bids for virt hardware, and frowning a lot

Browser tests

 * (Dan) Making progress on env layer
 * Antoine got Dan to commit to giving a TDD talk to WMF :)
 * Chris in SF, working mostly directly with Flow folks (mostly S I think) and a little with Rummana for VE.
 * Almost 80 people RSVPd for http://www.meetup.com/wikimedia-tech/events/207856222/

Vagrant

 * (Dan) Survey out—around 38 replies so far. Let it roll? Send to community?
 * (Dan) Start analysis of survey results

Hiring

 * Release Engineer in-progress: https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/29435?t=5fw24x

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
 * 10/21-22-23 Chris in SF (Elisabeth Hendrickson talk at WMF Oct 22)
 * 10/23 - Antoine traveilling during morning
 * 10/27 - 10/29 Chris at Google Test Automation Conference Seattle
 * 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
 * 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
 * 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)