Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161024

= 2016-10-24 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * October 31 & November 4th: Mukunda
 * October 28 - Nov 2 - Chad (vacation to Cabo)
 * Oct 31st/Nov 1st - Antoine (bank holiday, equivalent of halloween)
 * Friday Nov 11rd - Antoine (bank holiday, WW1 and other wars commemorations)
 * November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
 * November 24+25: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
 * December 26-30: XMas Holiday
 * January 9-11: Dev Summit
 * January 12-13: All Hands

Time spent spreadsheet

 * week 42: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=0

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

weeks of Oct 03 and Oct 10

 * Train: Tyler
 * wmf.21
 * wmf.22
 * SoS: Chad
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/25
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/26
 * Out:
 * October 10: US Holiday (Indigenous People's Day)

Oct 17 and Oct 24

 * Train: Chad+Mukunda splitting
 * no train week of Oct 17
 * wmf.23
 * Chad on Tues, Mukunda on Wed/Thurs
 * SoS: Tyler
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/27
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/28

Oct 31 and Nov 7

 * Train: Tues:Tyler, Wed/Thurs:Mukunda
 * [ wmf.24]
 * [ wmf.25]
 * SoS: Dan
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/29
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/30
 * Out:
 * November 1st: Antoine (France holiday: all-saints)

Actions from last meeting

 * Greg: explore with Andrew/Daniel/Someone after our team meeting(s) on Monday to sync up with what we need from Ops
 * Greg to ping probably after gallium migration

Scrum of Scrums

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

This week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Migrating Jenkins/Zuul on November 1st (morning Pacific time): there will be downtime
 * Updates
 * Migrating Jenkins/Zuul on November 1st (morning Pacific time): there will be downtime

Last week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * REMINDER: No MW Train next week!
 * Updates
 * REMINDER: No MW Train next week!

Other Team Business

 * QA Hire:
 * Sent to Recruiting

Offsite

 * Follow-ups / EVARYTHING

Future of CI plan

 * Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.


 * Yuuup

Release MediaWiki 1.28

 * Determine branch dates and release date (Nov 2/9/16/23)
 * Email to go out about branching next week (wmf.23 this week, wmf.24 next week?)
 * Couple of minor things to tidy up first, access, etc.

TODO:
 * Sync up with Darian re security release out prior to general release
 * one last 1.26 before EOL


 * CI config for REL1_29 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148987

DB Inconsistencies
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Catch up with reviews/Phabricator spam
 * Migrate some more jobs to Nodepool
 * Prepare CI for REL1_28
 * Finish prepare steps for gallium -> contint1001 migration
 * Confirm date of gallium -> contint1001 migration
 * ?? proof check offsite documents ??

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Train
 * Tidying up some of the release scripts for Tyler :)

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items
 * Set up proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
 * Work on CI MEGACHART

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Train on Wed/Thurs
 * Catch up on phabricator tasks
 * Upload photos from offsite

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Feature flag for deploy-local command change
 * Figure out test env for scap3 mw things
 * Mostly done

Last week

 * Offiste

This week

 * Sick
 * Catching up on mail