Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160404

= 2016-04-04 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
 * March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
 * April 1st - Q4 goals published
 * April 1st - FDC Annual Plan Narrative going to the FDC
 * April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks (probably 2nd, April 11-15)
 * April 14-15 - Željko - conference
 * May 2 - 6th - Reading Team offsite
 * May 6th Friday - Antoine
 * May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
 * May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
 * Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
 * June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
 * July 1st - Q1 goals published
 * July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
 * August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
 * August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
 * January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Train conductor
Week of ...
 * Jan 11 (wmf.10): Dan
 * Jan 18 (wmf.11) - : Dan
 * Jan 25 (wmf.11) - : Dan
 * Feb 01 (wmf.12) - : Antoine with Dan pairing
 * Feb 08 (wmf.13) - : Chad
 * Feb 15 (wmf.14) - : Antoine
 * Feb 22 (wmf.14) - : Chad
 * Feb 29 (wmf.15) - : Chad
 * Mar 07 (wmf.16) - : Mukunda
 * Mar 14 (wmf.17) - : Mukunda
 * Mar 21 (wmf.18) - : Tyler
 * Mar 28 (wmf.19) - : Tyler
 * Apr 04 (wmf.20) - : Dan
 * Apr 11 (wmf.21) - : Dan
 * Apr 18: Master datacenter switch
 * Apr 25 (wmf.22) - :
 * May 2 (wmf.23) - :
 * May 9 (wmf.24) - :
 * 1.28?

Scrum of Scrums representative
(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...
 * Feb 8: Tyler
 * Feb 15: Dan
 * Feb 22: Tyler
 * Feb 29: Tyler
 * Mar 7: Chad
 * Mar 14: Chad
 * Mar 21: Mukunda
 * Mar 28: Mukunda
 * Apr 4: Tyler
 * Apr 11: Tyler

CI point person
...

Actions from last meeting

 * ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
 * AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with
 * ACTION: Greg to sync up with Antoine on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125999 - debian-glue

New vs Maint time spent

 * Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0
 * Q4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SjLoTALS4_DA77M-F-gLbIFIai5b8pXkPO7AgR303FI/edit

Scrum of Scrums

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


 * Phabricator event for testing if it's useful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155


 * Blocked on us:


 * Krenair would like us to mention https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97593

Other Team Business

 * Time to update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix :)


 * Probably need to be aware of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114421 "[RFC] Optional Travis integration for Jenkins"
 * It's set to "stalled" right now


 * Peer feedback system proposal (we'd be guinea pigs)....

Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Train2.0
 * Migrate remaining services to scap3
 * Services Team owned services and MW -
 * All other services -

Differential Migration
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration
 * Conclude RFC process -
 * Documentation and workflow explanation -
 * Phase 1 repository migration -
 * Spec out needed glue for Differential to Gearman to Nodepool -

End_to_End_test_language_expansion
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/End_to_End_test_language_expansion
 * Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. -
 * Prototype new JS framework. -
 * Send out user satisfaction survey. -