Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20130917

2013-09-17
Who: Visual Editor test under beta: git-deploy mw release
 * Antoine, Chris McMahon, Chris Steipp, Greg, Sam Zeljkof
 * Zeljkof and Chris working with VE team this week
 * Antoine working on a roadmap / bugs entries to get Selenium tests runnable under a Jenkins instance in labs
 * Zeljkof got shell access, pair up with Antoine next week
 * Chris requesting
 * Adding a wiki on beta has a step-by-step guide on wikitech:
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Deployment-prep/Add_a_wiki
 * Ariel in contact with VE team to find out which articles they need.
 * greg contacted git-annex author, seems he is willing to help with some git repositories corruptions we are facing. Ryan Lane will get in touch with him.
 * Chris talked with Mark & Markus about the next release. Tarball and scripts being worked on.
 * A challenge is how to include the security patches without having them exposed publicly for too much of a long time.
 * Chris: could we get the scripts integrated in Jenkins.
 * Chris and Antoine to pair next week