Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20151103

= 2015-11-03 =

Vacations/Confs/etc
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Nov 11: US HOLIDAY - Veterans Day - + Antoine
 * Nov 26: US HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving
 * Nov 27: US HOLIDAY - Day after Thanksgiving
 * Dec 4th: Greg - disconnected, leaving Thursday evening, returning Sunday :)
 * Dec 22-29: Chad - Christmas
 * Dec 24-Jan 3: Dan - Holidays (probably)
 * Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
 * Jan 01: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
 * Dec 2?-Jan 0x - Antoine, no clue yet
 * Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
 * Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
 * Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June-ish: Chad - EDC
 * August: France holiday - because french. :)

Actions from last meeting

 * TODO - GREG: 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
 * DONE - Differential-crew: talk more about RFC in the weekly meeting
 * DONE - GREG: Get help from Megan/Sarah re moving the meetings around oh my god
 * TODO - EVERYONE: please review Antoine's caching proposal! https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/2015-October/002414.html
 * DONE - CHAD: 1.26 release: "Chad will send email to wikitech-l asking for help with the blockers today"

WIkiDev16

 * Code Review RFC - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114320
 * On track
 * Scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045
 * not on track?
 * To discuss in deployment cabal—added some discussion

Other

 * GSOC?
 * Don't forget Zeljko's conference report after this meeting :)

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/


 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117431

Scrum of Scrums

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


 * Moving some wikis to a Wednesday train deployment (ask about hewiki and cawiki specifically)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115002#1774753

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


 * still needing feedback on package manager caching
 * since blocked on ^ decided to upgrade zuul :)

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


 * AQS work
 * Start here, maybe? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116206

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/


 * bd808+Lego's composer plugin to be in Differential, Mukunda on it
 * issue with firewall'd phab box and the proxy - ping ops :) ("good luck")

Release MediaWiki 1.26

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1177/
 * Nag e-mail sent last week.
 * Board pruned, down to 14 actual blockers. Going to push on all the assigned ones and find assignees for the remainder this week.

Beta Cluster

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

Other Work

 * EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference, Salzburg, Austria) report (Željko, 5 minutes)