Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Goals/201516Q1/checkin-07-28

= 30 (ish) day checkin on Q1 goals =
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/releng-201516-q1/

[Quarterly Success Metric] Jenkins: Run jobs in disposable VMs
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499
 * boot instances from OpenStack API
 * labnodepool is pretty much done. Going to be reimaged from scratch. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107158
 * still missing the image to boot from (goal: end of week-ish?)
 * subset of jobs run in disposable VM (not isolated)
 * after Antoine's vacation
 * Bug 1/Task 2001
 * For now just some notes at: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nodepool

Gerrit Migration stage 1

 * Prototype CI integration with Differential
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103127
 * TODO: Mukunda and Antoine to pair or something this week


 * Allow cloning of Phabricator hosted git repositories
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128
 * Completely working on HTTPS.
 * SSH a WIP, Chase was working on this last week
 * Cloning of SVN requires SSH, Phab doesn't support HTTP(S) + SVN

Create or improve the RESTBase deploy method (tracking)
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102667

Seemingly on track at this point Not drowning!


 * A new workflow for RESTBase is deployed (task T102667 is complete)
 * Created reasonable replacement method via scap
 * Working on wrapping ansible to hide ansible :)
 * Goal to have systems to evaluate (roughly) by next week


 * All items in Deployment_tooling/Future#Future_Requirements completed
 * Continually evaluating approaches
 * Fill out evaluation of tools, further refine best approach
 * https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1MlEsFxrLvdZdV_G82WEAIvBXr7ArO7nCEKaFClHhJEw/edit?usp=sharing