Engineering Community Team/Meetings/2013-04-02

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2 April 2013[edit]

Misc reminders[edit]

Mentorship[edit]

Amsterdam hackathon prep[edit]

  • Anything to do?
    • Outreach for more signups by 20 April?
    • WMF sprints/trainings?
      • Quim & Sumana to think about performance & Lua stuff with Rachel

High-priority escalations?[edit]

There are 3 that Andre has considered important in the last few days.

  • bug 46428 - memcache split, blocks several other items
  • 46401, patch awaiting review
  • the http 500 error bugs

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=46428,46401,46612

  • Rob to check out these escalations

this weekend, we had 3 outages, and we need to improve communication around outages, Andre says. 2 of 3 were jobqueue-related.

  • where were they documented?
    • Etherpad for TechOps meeting yesterday, and short ops mailing list thread
* Recent Outages
** 2013-03-28, Thursday - 19:40-19:43 GMT
** 2013-03-29, Friday 05:00 GMT
** 2013-03-31, Sunday - 21.20 GMT
*** LVS - fix kernel leak / upgrade kernel ?
      • Asher put in a jobqueue limit queue
    • RobLa to ask Greg to follow up

Vacations/holidays[edit]

  • Sumana part of tomorrow + part of Thursday
  • Guillaume out this week

me Andre:

  • a few days around Amsterdam (May 24th)
  • maybe Open Source Bridge Conference, Portland, June 18–21, 2013

Texas Linux Fest: deadline April 1st - http://2013.texaslinuxfest.org/ , Valerie!

Željko:

  • May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • June 10-12, Selenium Conference, Boston, MA, USA
  • Submitted talks/workshops for a couple of local open source conferences, waiting for reply (May 15-17, September 06-07)

Chris:

  • Apr 22-25 (Google Test Automation Conference, NYC)
  • May 2-5 (Telerik Test Summit Peer Conference, Austin TX)
  • May 13-17 relocating, details TBD
  • May 24-26, Wikimedia Hackathon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Aug 4-10 Agile2013 (not certain but likely)