Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141014

=2014-10-14=

Scrum of Scrums

 * Dependency wall: https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/scrum_of_scrums/cards/list?style=list&tab=All

Jenkins

 * Jobs created with Jenkins Job Builder should now properly register ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63758 )
 * Tobi completed WD migrated (refractor in-progress)
 * rubucop etc
 * "Jenkins Performance"
 * No remaining time last to reproduce it

Beta cluster

 * virt100x outage last week, we have lost deployment-cxserver01 . Had trouble rebuilding it due to labs partitionning improvement. Kindly fixed and enhanced by Andrew/Coren
 * Andrew and Rob reviewing quotes for additional virt hardware today (re: new beta cluster)
 * Maybe we need to backup instances
 * Second beta cluster still being discussed

Browser tests

 * Stuff went red while Chris was away
 * mediawiki/selenium has env to fix xvfb race condition. Only used for local browser tests though.
 * since all jobs are on Sauce, should we stop throttling them?
 * Let Chris work on getting the builds back to green first
 * Jobs were running SauceLabs and had timeouts, so unrelated to xvfb race condition
 * Conclusion: keep them throttle-
 * Continuing work on environment abstraction

Vagrant

 * Release trafficcontrol MWV role (uses tc + iptables to simulate network conditions)
 * Perform MMV perf tests using trafficcontrol profiles
 * Distribute survey! (today)

Hiring

 * Elena starts today(!!)
 * Buddying with James and Rummana, I chatted with her yesterday, will sync up later in the week as well
 * Chris wrote this long ago but it's still mostly relevant: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Quality_Assurance/first_week
 * welcome email to-be-sent (already written)

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * 10/13 - 10/17 Greg at MediaWiki Core offsite
 * 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
 * 10/21-22-23 Chris in SF (Elisabeth Hendrickson talk at WMF Oct 22)
 * 10/27 - 10/29 Chris at Google Test Automation Conference Seattle
 * 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
 * 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
 * 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)