Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170118

= 2017-01-18 =

Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * How to do it


 * Jan 26-27: Chad, maybe
 * February 20: President's Day
 * March 13: Monthly day off
 * April 14: Monthly day off

Time spent spreadsheet

 * week 1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=0
 * week 2: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=1351469163

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

Jan 9 and Jan 16

 * Train: Chad
 * No train week of Jan 9th
 * wmf.8
 * SoS: Tyler
 * Out:
 * Jan 9/10/11: DevSummit (Greg and Chad)
 * Jan 12/13: All Hands (Everyone but Antione)

Jan 23 and Jan 30

 * Train: Mukunda
 * wmf.9
 * wmf.10
 * SoS: Dan
 * Out:

Feb 6 and Feb 13

 * Train: Tyler
 * wmf.11
 * wmf.12
 * SoS: Chad
 * Out:

Actions from last meeting

 * Greg: reply to kubernetes email to ops

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
 * Train/deploys back to normal
 * Updates
 * Train/deploys back to normal

Last week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * No train next week
 * New person! JR Branaa, come say hi
 * No train next week
 * New person! JR Branaa, come say hi

Skill Matrix!

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix

Volunteer deployers ?

 * Add more Volunteers? Is there any specific policy. Directed one at Greg.
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#New_SWAT_Team_member_check-list
 * Need trust, technical endorsement (eg approve kabal of deployers). Directed to Greg for questions.


 * Greg hasn't responded yet :/

Mid-year check-in

 * What? When?
 * not this week :/

Quarterly Review

 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V6H_ebe0WTQey4AsivgF7j7BrsEnX6ystKgSa7wO_eA/edit#slide=id.g1b66bc6307_0_90

Annual Planning

 * That time again!
 * We need to have a draft high level goal for our team, due Monday 1/23.
 * This is really a non-tactical/plan thing.

Q3 goal/project check-in

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

 * Gather requirements for new CI system -


 * Tyler will schedule stalk people

Build fanout support in scap3

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276

Phabricator

 * Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator -

Non-Quarterly goal work

 * Multiversion is almost untangled. \o/
 * mw-config backlog went from 120 to 60 last week (!!!)

Browser tests

 * T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing

Last week
All hands + dev summit

This week
Train, multiversion cleanups, scap, gerrit

Last week
Wramp-up (environment,people), All-hands, Administrative

This week
QA Interview prep (question, people), Wramp-up cont...

Last week

 * All hands

This week

 * Made a large amount of progress on porting Scap 3 to Python 3
 * Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator

Last week

 * Talking

This week

 * Scap 3.5.0
 * Setup some kind of requirements gather meeting for CI thangs.

Last week

 * All Hands

This week

 * jet lag
 * T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing
 * T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster