Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160328

= 2016-03-28 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
 * March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
 * April 1st - Q4 goals published
 * April 1st - FDC Annual Plan Narrative going to the FDC
 * April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks (probably 2nd, April 11-15)
 * April 14-15 - Željko - conference
 * May 6th Friday - Antoine
 * May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
 * May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
 * Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
 * June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
 * July 1st - Q1 goals published
 * July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
 * August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
 * August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
 * January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Train conductor
Week of ...
 * Mar 14: Mukunda
 * Mar 21: Tyler
 * Mar 28: Tyler
 * Apr 4: Dan
 * Apr 11: Dan

Scrum of Scrums representative
(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...
 * Mar 14: Chad
 * Mar 21: Mukunda
 * Mar 28: Mukunda
 * Apr 4: Tyler
 * Apr 11: Tyler

Actions from last meeting

 * ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
 * AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with
 * ACTION: Greg to request the RFC talk page to be flowified
 * DONE, Greg JFDI: Talk:Requests_for_comment/Migrate_code_review_and_management_to_Phabricator_from_Gerrit

New vs Maint time spent

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

Other Team Business

 * Time to update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix :)


 * I think these are done:
 * Zeljko
 * Mukunda
 * Dan
 * Chad
 * Just need:
 * Tyler
 * Antoine



Scrum of Scrums

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

Phabricator event for testing if it's useful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155

Blocked on us:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125999 - debian-glue, Greg to sync up with antoine
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123718 - kill gitblit

Annual Planning
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016-17_WMF_Annual_Plan/Release_Engineering_Narrative

Our 3 projects:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Train2.0
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/End_to_End_test_language_expansion

Q3 goal/project check-in
!!! Our last check-in of the quarter :D

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


 * Citoid moved
 * changeprop moved
 * Problems were configuration/puppet
 * ORES still going
 * Check robustness
 * Puppet work for scap::master

Differential Migration

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


 * wiki page edits by Greg
 * special:version links to diffusion now (in master, rolling out this week)
 * will deploy the updated mapping this week so it's so fresh and so clean :)

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 -

Browser tests

 * continued work on malu
 * improving test coverage
 * api layer for user creation
 * one privileged user to create new users per need
 * potentially allow parallel testing (more easily)
 * TODO: need to setup CI config for malu