Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20151130

= 2015-11-30 =

Vacations/Confs/etc
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Dec 2?-Jan 0x - Antoine, no clue yet
 * Dec 4th: Greg - disconnected, leaving Thursday evening, returning Sunday :)
 * Dec 21-Jan 1: Greg - vacation, at least (maybe part of the week before)
 * Dec 22-29: Chad - Christmas
 * Dec 23–25: Tyler — Hopeful, probable, Christmas in Kansas!
 * Dec 24-Jan 3: Dan - Holidays
 * Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
 * Jan 1: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
 * Jan 4 - 8: WikiDev16 + All Hands
 * Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
 * Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
 * Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
 * May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
 * PO Box for pastries? - Antoine
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June-ish: Chad - EDC
 * August: France holiday - because french. :)

Actions from last meeting

 * MOSTLY DONE - Chad take a look at making the >=Warning graph (mostly done, trying to figure out right log)
 * DONE - Greg: Reword the differential dogfooding goal
 * DONE - Greg: Get perferred physcian form from HR for US staff
 * TODO - Antoine + Mukunda: should sit down and talk CI/Harbormaster/Nodepool
 * Mukunda just needs to find time to finally test out harbormaster triggering jenkins jobs.
 * TODO - Greg: look into reasons for spikes of info-level log spam
 * RunJobs logging changes? See engineering-l/ops-l?
 * DONE - Antoine: re KPIs, do mw core gate-processing time for this quarter, reassess for next quarter if needed
 * TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
 * ACTION: Antoine to create a task

60 day quarter goal check-in

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEng-goalcheckin-20151201

WIkiDev16

 * Code Review RFC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114320
 * Scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045

Q3 Goals

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201516Q3


 * Goals timeline:
 * December 3: Group goal scoped and drafted on mediawiki.org for Technology team.
 * December 10: Group goal + all individual team *drafts completed* on mediawiki.org; discuss at Infra+Tech group and identify dependencies.
 * December 17: individual team goals + group goal *finalized* on mediawiki.org; discuss at Monthly Eng Staff.
 * Reduce CI wait time
 * we still need a graph for the wait time that's clear
 * https://grafana-admin.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-zuul

KPIs

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

New vs Maint time spent

 * https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1FI90AefwdLHGzVVdrLS6AxcTcJtLFyX0aQTQfyc88s4/edit

#together

 * Team workboard: to triage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/query/TRiVy4zOMdR./
 * Team workboard: only-in-#releng(ish): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/sprint/board/20/query/g2T5.QSLJVRQ/

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

Beta Cluster

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


 * Team: might have to watch slow query logs / strict errors etc

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

Diff[usion|erential] migration

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
 * 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/

Release MediaWiki 1.26

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