Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150929

= 2015-09-29 =

Team Business

 * Skill matrix update for September:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Due: Oct 6th


 * Dev Summit - Register :)
 * https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/1-Ps8QfCrWatT9u6oboB3c1LRRNY1B7Rxxupqug6wNpc/viewform
 * Due Oct 2nd.
 * Topics
 * Scap - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045
 * Differential RFC? (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110623 )
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q2
 * other?


 * Quarterly Review
 * in-progress
 * Invited Dan, Tyler, and Chad (sorry, but thanks ;) )


 * Phab process proposal (if time permits)
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Phab_process_proposal

#together

 * Team workboard triage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/query/open/
 * Should we do a weekly triage (not this meeting, clearly)

Scrum of Scrums

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

CI Scaling

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1010/
 * Quarterly Goal: "CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111106


 * migrating python jobs
 * working on the ruby jobs with zeljko
 * addressing the gate-submit jobs slowness - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113501
 * simplifying the CI config entry points. Ex with GNU Make https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/242177
 * Lot of patches from Paladox

Deployment Cabal

 * Main: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/349/
 * Scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1449/
 * Quarterly Goal: "Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926


 * continue cabal group meetings
 * TODO: announce to ops list, describe what the purpose of the meeting is :-)
 * scap3 to deploy RESTBase to beta-cluster

Phabricator/Diff[usion|erential] migration

 * Gitblit-Deprecate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/46/
 * Quarterly Goal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111465
 * Gerrit-Migration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/


 * Differential plan of action question:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110623#1673139


 * TODO: Differential migration weekly
 * chad, mukunda, chase (optional), andre

Release MediaWiki 1.26

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1177/


 * Already switched master to 1.27 cycle
 * REL1_26 branches will be made today -- will e-mail wikitech after branches created
 * Scheduled release date is Nov. 21st

Developer Tooling (MW-Vagrant, MW-Selenium, etc.)

 * MW-Selenium 1.6.0 released and announced (thanks, Zeljko!)
 * MW-Selenium 1.6.1 to be released today (fixes a bug in UserFactory)

Beta Cluster

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

Vacations/Confs/etc
Please add your time off to your gcal, **Phabricator**, and ADP, as appropriate
 * Dan - Oct 16th (2015)
 * Opsen - Oct 12-16th - offsite
 * Antoine - Friday Oct 23th (2015)
 * Chad - Jan 16-18 (2015, MLK weekend) - another music festival