Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150630

= 2015-06-30 =

Team Business

 * Quarterly Review
 * slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-oOygFPRNcMtEmwDfXGy3-UoztEh9Zty7vTgsOavZAQ/edit#slide=id.p


 * [EPIC] iOS Dev Infrastructure MVP - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98970
 * Automation Engineer position

Pairing (#together) / Weekly Triages

 * Usual triages
 * Lots of vacations, lots of skipping
 * Dan, Tyler, Mukunda did deployment train #together
 * cut branch tuesday join!
 * Noon PST, 9pm Nodepool Tueday (maybe change next week)
 * checkin and update
 * building images to use
 * 7/1 dan/antoine - 7/8 - dan/zeljko/antoine
 * Tuesday afternoonish cache puppet beta-cluster rumble

Scrum of Scrums

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
 * Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%28%29&projects=PHID-PROJ-arpazvuktn2l647rb6us#R


 * Security scan on beta cluster (Dan has patch) ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72181 )
 * Candidate for a varnish cache on Jessie ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98758 )

Beta Cluster

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority


 * /home is now local
 * small NFS outage last week
 * lots of cleanup for NFS mounts, etc: little things, big changes
 * nutcracker proxy fell over Sunday, restarted Monday

Deployment Cabal

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Deployment_tooling/Cabal/2015-06-29
 * Setting up staging RESTBase servers as a test environment
 * staging-restbase01.staging.eqiad.wmflabs

Isolated CI instances

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority
 * Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499


 * Jessie slaves https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94836
 * includes mediawiki:::packages
 * needs systemd for xvfb
 * php5-fss / php-luasandbox

Developer Tooling (MW-Vagrant, MW-Selenium, etc.)

 * Voting browser tests builder almost there! (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103039)
 * Blocked by an upstream bug in the headless gem
 * PR: https://github.com/leonid-shevtsov/headless/pull/60
 * Based on BarryBot by Jon that runs browser tests and report to Gerrit

Vacations/Confs/etc
Please add your time off to your gcal and ADP, as appropriate


 * Mukunda: June 29-30, if I can get someone to take over branching next tuesday?
 * Tyler and Dan #together
 * US Holiday - Friday July 3rd
 * Tyler - July 1-3 - family coming to town for that week
 * Greg: July 6-12th - vacation without connection
 * Antoine: July 14th (Bastille day) - August 1st- 23rd
 * Wikimania: Dan, Zeljko, Tyler - 7/13ish - 7/20ish
 * Andrew Bogott: July 18-27, mostly unreachable
 * Chad: July 25-28 (Thur-Sun), reachable by e-mail
 * Antoine: Aug 1st - 22nd (3 weeks!)