Phabricator/Migration/status

Last update on: 2014-07-09

2014-05-19
The Phabricator RfC was finished with support for moving to Phabricator. Hence also the review of Wikimedia's Project management tools is finished. At the Zürich Hackathon 2014 three Phabricator related sessions took place (general introduction to Phabricator by Shahyar, Phabricator's code review concept and tool by Shahyar, discussion planning Day 1 of Phabricator in production). Another public IRC office hour about Phabricator took place on May 14th (log). Andre summarized the process of moving to Phabricator so far in a blogpost. Regarding overviews and keeping track, the project has a central general information page, a planning board for Wikimedia Phabricator Day 1 in Production, a team defined for the required work, and an upstream task board for planning.

2014-05-monthly
Mukunda Modell is currently addressing authentication and access restrictions for security tickets with upstream. Chase Pettet and Daniel Zahn of Wikimedia Operations are spearheading the Phabricator installation. Andre Klapper has upstreamed some issues, commented on numerous tickets, and identified further tasks related to migration. An overview board of tasks to solve for the first dayof Phabricator in production is available. Furthermore, once Wikimedia SUL authentication is sorted out, it is investigated to launch the Phabricator production instance first with very limited functionality to provide a Trusted User Tool.

2014-06-10
Apart from commenting on / discussing / upstreaming Phabricator tickets, Andre gave a short Phabricator presentation at WMF's Monthly Metrics meeting and started thinking about on organizing sprints, releases, iterations in Phab and data migration from Bugzilla.

2014-06-monthly
Apart from discussions on how to implement certain functionality and settings in Phabricator among team members and stakeholders, Mukunda implemented a MediaWiki OAuth provider in Phabricator (Gerrit changes: 1, 2; related ticket) and Chase created a Puppet module for Phabricator.

2014-07-09
Mukunda implemented WMF SUL Authentication for Phabricator. Chase deployed Legalpad, a tool to manage trusted users, on a separate server (workflow to be further defined with the Legal team). Sean and Chase put a data backup system for Phabricator in place. Mukunda wrote code to restricted access to tasks in a certain project which can already be tested on fab.wmflabs.org. Chase upgraded the dedicated Phabricator server to Ubuntu Trusty. Andre listed the Bugzilla bug report elements to tackle in a script to import from Bugzilla and dropped his thoughts about Priority and Keyword migration. In upstream development, umbrella projects and subprojects are being worked on which will influence our plans on handling release planning in Phabricator.