Wikimedia Release Engineering Team

This is the team responsible for Release Engineering/Management and QA at the Wikimedia Foundation. We predominately use the QA mailing list along with conversations on the appropriate IRC channels (especially, , , and ).

= Status =

= Quarterly Reviews =
 * April 2014
 * February 2014
 * November 2013
 * August 2013

= Backlog/Wishlist =

We maintain a list of projects that would be great to have done, but are not on our roadmap in in the near term. See the wishlist here.

= Meetings =

See /Meetings for notes from the Showcase meetings of the Release and QA Team.

= April - July '14 Goals Progress = For past quarter's checkins, see the archives. See the WMF Engineering 13-14 goals page for the yearly view.

Deployment tooling

 * - Process through all (useful) pain points from the Dev/Deploy review session - (Greg)
 * - Integrate HHVM support into our deployment systems - (Bryan, Greg, ytbh RelEngineer, others from Platform)
 * - start the scap(py) & trebuchet integration conversation (stretch goal)

Beta cluster

 * - Support HHVM deployment tooling and puppet configuration testing - (Bryan, Antoine, ytbh RelEngineer)
 * - Swift cluster in beta (stretch goal)

MediaWiki Release

 * - Successfully support the release of MediaWiki 1.23 - (Antoine, Greg)
 * - Kickoff/complete second RFP - (Greg)
 * - Investigate and create useful release/deployment metrics visualizations - (Greg)

Browser tests

 * - Use tags to run builds appropriate to released versions (e.g. don't run master build on test2wiki) - (Chris)
 * - Retire Cloudbees Jenkins instance - (Željko)
 * - Integrate WMF Jenkins with new WMF SauceLabs account - (Željko, Antoine, Chris)
 * - Use API to create test data at runtime more widely (not just for MobileFrontend but also VisualEditor, Flow, local dev env etc.) - (Chris, Željko)
 * - Add browsertests to new repos e.g. GettingStarted - (Chris, Željko)

Hiring

 * - Complete hiring and train new Release Engineer (Greg, all)
 * - Complete hiring and train new Automation Engineer (Ruby)  (Chris, all)

Quarterly Review Action items

 * - create a plan for browser testing of MediaWiki 1.23 - Chris M
 * - Greg get firm requirements from Antoine, circle back to Mark who'll have an idea of Op's timelime for production Shinken.
 * - Figure out how to keep HHVM unit tests from delaying +2 for standard production commits (Antoine, Chris M, Zeljko)

Greg

 * - Process through pain points
 * - config changes not being deployed after merge
 * - Refine Deployment_tooling/Notes/Deployment_system_requirements with Bryan
 * - onboard new Release Engineer
 * - Successfully support the release of MediaWiki 1.23
 * - Kickoff/complete second RFP
 * - Investigate and create useful release/deployment metrics visualizations

Bryan

 * Scap refactor/python port
 * Setup test environment in beta (carried forward from Feb & March; much harder than I'd hoped)
 * Continue to enhance and simplify scripts
 * Build .mw-git-info.json caches during scap and support in GitInfo.php
 * Use trebuchet to deploy scap scripts
 * Add scap/scap trebuchet target
 * Provision scap scripts using trebuchet
 * Next generation deployment tooling
 * Organize requirements into wiki page (carried forward from Feb & March; pairing with Greg)
 * Support train deploys