Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20150203

= 2015-02-03 =

Team Business

 * The flying Reedy

Team Workboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/?order=priority

Scrum of Scrums
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

MediaWiki Releases

 * Release 1.24.2 and 1.23.9: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88120

Continuous Integration
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/continuous-integration/board/?order=priority Quarterly Priority: Disposable VMs - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47499 Others: please review https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86171
 * CI isolation architecture document to be sent to rest of team for proofread/info
 * Antoine to set 1/1 braindumping for Jenkins/Zuul

Test Infrastructure

 * Beta Cluster: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority
 * Staging: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?statuses=open%2Cstalled&allProjects=PHID-PROJ-rtjlh4h7js35zu475ivc#R
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/staging-machines

Browser tests
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/630/ In process:
 * Chris catching up with current vagrant situation
 * Start using EAL widely
 * Can we extend browser tests to mobile apps? Appium? Let's discuss... (came up in dev summit)
 * Refactoring Flow page, it needs a fancy programming trick to identify Topic elements properly, will be pairing on that Thu.
 * Zeljko or Antoine to review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/186451/ ? (New build for MF)

Hiring

 * Tyler starts on the 9th, in SF the week of the 16th

Vacations/Confs/etc

 * Feb 16th: US Holiday (Presidents' Day)
 * Week before hackathon: Team offsite in France
 * May: Hackathon in Lyon, France
 * Lyon used to be the capital of the area a long time ago. Nice old city, lot of great food, reasonably sunny/hot.