Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141028

=2014-10-28=

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

Phabricator

 * test instance up at http://bugzillapreview.wmflabs.org/

Deployment tooling

 * 5am deploy window on Tuesday
 * Thurs -> Wed window move

Jenkins/Zuul

 * Jobs not being triggered by Zuul suddenly https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63760, hard to track. Antoine attempting to reproduce reliably.
 * Antoine attending OpenStack summit next week and will meet upstream. Good opportunity to fix it for real :-)
 * Took random notes about a uniq job to test all extensions together. More later.

Beta cluster

 * scap broken because WikiGrok extension was not registered in mediawiki/extensions.git
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Writing_an_extension_for_deployment#Deploy_to_beta_cluster_on_Labs
 * (ACTION Antoine to update the Wiki pages)

Browser tests

 * (Dan) Env abstraction layer thingy ready for some manual/functional testing
 * start with CentralAuth
 * experimental branch with multiple commits
 * (Dan) Sorting through rubocop-related commits and rewriting Ruby conventions

Vagrant

 * (Dan) Sent a survey reminder out (we're up to 49 responses (!!!))
 * next step: sending to wikitech-l/etc
 * (Dan) Working with Bryan on an outline for the tech talk in November

Hiring

 * RelEng in-progress

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
 * 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
 * 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
 * 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)
 * 11/ something Thanksgiving (US)