Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160121

= 2016-01-11 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
 * Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
 * Feb 3rd - core narrative annual plan due
 * Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
 * March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
 * March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
 * March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
 * April 1st - Q4 goals published
 * May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
 * May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
 * Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June-ish: Chad - EDC
 * June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
 * July 1st - Q1 goals published
 * July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
 * August: France holiday - because french. :)
 * January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Actions from last meeting

 * TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
 * ACTION: Antoine to create a task
 * Overdue

KPIs

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

New vs Maint time spent

 * Q2: https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1FI90AefwdLHGzVVdrLS6AxcTcJtLFyX0aQTQfyc88s4/edit
 * Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

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

Annual Planning

 * Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0

To discuss: How to go about this team planning.

Reduce CI Wait time

 * KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen
 * Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool -
 * php composer (Zend and HHVM) -
 * as many miscellaneous jobs as possible -
 * Migrate Jenkins to Jessie

Consolidate deploy tools

 * Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 -
 * Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

Differential Migration

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
 * Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure -
 * Shepherd the RFC -
 * Discuss at WikiDev16 -
 * Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")