Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160222

= 2016-02-22 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Feb 24-26 - Dan - vacation
 * March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
 * March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
 * March 11th - Željko - probably working half day, traveling to a conference in the afternoon
 * March 25th Friday - Tyler
 * March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
 * March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
 * April 1st - Q4 goals published
 * April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks
 * May 6th Friday - Antoine
 * May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
 * May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
 * Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June (mid): Chad - EDC
 * June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
 * July 1st - Q1 goals published
 * July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
 * August: France holiday - because french. :)
 * January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Train conductor
Week of ...
 * Feb 22: Chad (except thurs?) Tyler volunteers to "toot the horn"
 * Feb 29: Chad
 * Mar 7: Mukunda
 * Mar 14: Mukunda
 * Mar 21: Tyler

Scrum of Scrums representative
(bad time for EU folks) Week of ...
 * Feb 22: Tyler
 * Feb 29: Tyler
 * Mar 7: Chad
 * Mar 14: Chad

CI point person

 * reassess later

Actions from last meeting

 * TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
 * ACTION: Antoine to create a task
 * Overdue

New vs Maint time spent

 * Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

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


 * Blocked on ops (sorta):
 * Refactor phabricator module in puppet to remove git tag pinning behavior https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125851
 * (resolved) scap::target should use scap's debian package instead of trebuchet https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127215

Other Team Business

 * FOSDEM report back

Annual Planning

 * Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
 * Planning worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0

Reduce CI Wait time

 * KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen
 * Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool -
 * php composer (Zend and HHVM) -
 * as many miscellaneous jobs as possible -
 * Migrate Jenkins to Jessie -

Migrate services CI jobs to node 4.3 -> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126991

Which is to run npm jobs for services on Nodepool instances.

3 out of 6 migrated mathoid/deploy fails for unknown reason => Math folks graphoid blocked on puppet work => ops || services parsoid have to refined the jobs that are run => Me

I will start migrating npm jobs to Nodepool this week in a cowboy way (ie during European mornings).

Consolidate deploy tools

 * Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 -
 * Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926
 * AQS is very close to moving to Scap3
 * Decided on first steps
 * Depool proxies
 * Fanout git deploys
 * Probably need to touch binary deployment

Differential Migration

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
 * Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure -
 * Shepherd the RFC -
 * Discuss at WikiDev16 -
 * Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Beta cluster / ORES
wikitech-l has an announcement about ORES (revision scoring) to be pushed to production. I have asked about the beta cluster and we have a task to which I have made a sale speech:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127661

I can't reasonably support them. It is a nice project half volunteer driven and with Aaron Halfaker involved for which I have a huge respect. It is probably a nice project to step in and help, specially if you are looking to interact with volunteers.