Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160711

= 2016-07-11 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off ...
 * July 14t+15th: Tyler (friends coming to town)
 * July 15th: Mukunda's Birthday on the 16th .. taking day off
 * July 15th: Chad
 * July 25 - August 15: Željko vacation
 * July 30 - August 21: Antoine vacation
 * August 1st - 5th: Mukunda - vacation: Concert & relaxation
 * January 2017: Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Rotating positions and absences
Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

weeks of June 27 and July 4

 * Train: Mukunda
 * SoS: Tyler
 * Out:
 * Zeljko - June 20-18 (Wikimania)
 * Mukunda - July 1
 * All US - July 4th (Monday)
 * Tyler - July 8

weeks of July 11 and 18

 * Train: Chad
 * SoS:
 * Out:
 * Tyler - July 14+15 (Thur+Fri)
 * Mukunda - July 15
 * Chad - July 15

weeks of July 25 and Aug 1

 * Train:
 * SoS:
 * Out:
 * Zeljko: July 25 - Aug 15
 * Antoine: July 30 - Aug 21
 * Mukunda: Aug 1-5

Time spent spreadsheet

 * Q1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IrwGPdTDZ6H8x9Mf5dmCYlkK4hZ8sbUSLODEM4cFc4g/edit#gid=0

Actions from last meeting

 * none?

Scrum of Scrums

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

Last week

 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Blocked
 * Gallium phase out questions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300
 * Pasted some IRC talk from chase
 * Other input welcome
 * CI Documentation publication: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137890
 * Mostly needs some network expertise
 * Scandium disk space: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138955
 * Updates
 * Train is back on track, wmf.8 to group1 today
 * 1.27 release is out (yay!)
 * Scap3 migrations continue (if you have questions, ask us! :))

This week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Updates
 * Updates

Other Team Business

 * Upgrade mariadb in deployment-prep from Precise/MariaDB 5.5 to Jessie/MariaDB 5.10 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138778
 * Blocking a wild range of feature requests


 * SWAT deploys next steps:
 * "Update new SWAT member process and deploying documentation in prep for adding European SWAT window" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139545
 * "Identify inaugural SWAT members for the European SWAT window" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139544
 * volunteers so far: Dereckson, JanZ, Antoine
 * Hold a couple official training runs? Just for EU timezones (eg: just Antoine) or something Mukunda/Tyler/Chad could do as well?


 * Personal annual goals (due 7/1)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134517


 * Team Offsite Planning:
 * Parent task:
 * Fill in those spreadsheets
 * I might have secured support :)

Phase out Ubuntu Precise
keyresult tasks:
 * Replace primary production Continuous Integration host -
 * Upgrade Phabricator database servers to Maria10/Jessie -
 * Upgrade Beta Cluster database servers to Maria10/Jessie -

Reduce Technical Debt
Perform a technical debt analysis of software and services maintained by WMF Release Engineering -

Streamline deployments
keyresult task:
 * Convert our production deployment strategy to use long-lived branches -

Differential migration
Differential weekly (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly ) todos:
 * Mukunda had questiosn for antione re puppet (keys into the private store, production or other? for CI image builder)
 * see: https://cloudbees.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/203802500-Injecting-Secrets-into-Jenkins-Build-Jobs


 * Update task with discussion about ACLs?
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130786


 * Announce plan to migrate MW-Vagrant to Differential
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131419#2439362

Last week

 * track 1.28.0-wmf.8 blocking status
 * Look at labs overloading
 * Loop back with ops about scandium/network with Tyler
 * Paper work
 * European SWAT stuff

Last week

 * Catching up
 * 1.27 release tomorrow, assuming everyone didn't break REL1_27 while I was gone :)
 * Helping kill Gitblit (again)
 * Looking into the Gerrit migration to new machine finally that I have cycles. $techdebt--

Last week

 * Differential documentation
 * migrating Bryan's repos

Last week

 * Scap packaing/features/stewarding
 * WQDS deployment move
 * Hopefully see some scandium movement!

Last week

 * getting back
 * survey