Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive

This is the Wikimedia Release Engineering Team's archive of our weekly check-ins. We take notes on an etherpad during the meeting and archive them here afterwards.

= 2014-09-16 =

Phabricator

 * redirection scripts (BZ urls to Phab urls)
 * almost finished
 * Just waiting on launch, will work with chase to deploy it
 * the gerrit -> phab bot
 * Java :)
 * ask for help from Nik/Chad/Christian

Deployment tooling

 * l10n and scap colliding
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70446

Jenkins

 * extensions now being tested with:
 * proper mediawiki/core branch (deployed today)
 * mediawiki/vendor
 * Still have to migrate the extensions -qunit jobs (WIP)
 * Wikidata related jobs partly reintegrated on Wikimedia Jenkins
 * Next items:
 * early adopt phabricator
 * isolating tests using labs infra.
 * merge zuul-config and jjb-config repositories (suggested by cscott)
 * auto deploy CI related changes on +2
 * Anyone interested in some Jenkins training ? ( Timezones sucks :-/ )
 * Chris started re-doing docs on mw.o. Starting with getting rid of references to Cloudbees.
 * Jenkins perf improvements
 * plan a sane master/slave arrangements
 * Design load structure
 * TODO: GREG to find find out Timo's involvement

Beta cluster
Antoine: both are huge additions with a long record of proven success.
 * jeremyb rampage
 * matanya granted root on beta (ops & puppet volunteer)
 * Search slowness; https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70869
 * We have monitoring on beta cluster thanks to Yuvi!
 * Wait on second cluster

Browser tests

 * early WIP of environment abstration layer
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159644/
 * Geolocation use case? Chris to send email I think :)
 * helping MMV with performance testing using MW-Selenium and an "isolated" labs instance
 * Chris to refactor Echo tests first in conjunction with corefeatures team

Vagrant

 * helping MMV with performance testing using MW-Selenium and an "isolated" labs instance
 * looking for ways to setup a "traffic shaper" role in MWV (using `tc` perhaps)
 * not sure how to achieve more isolation in labs (bigger instance == more dedicated?)
 * need to finalize MWV survey
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Vagrant_survey

Hiring
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