Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20141028

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2014-10-28[edit]

Team Business[edit]

Scrum of Scrums[edit]

(kept as long url because all short url providers are blocked by mw.org)

  • 5am deploy window on Tuesday
  • Thurs -> Wed window move
  • Jobs not being triggered by Zuul suddenly https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63760 , hard to track. Antoine attempting to reproduce reliably.
    • Antoine attending OpenStack summit next week and will meet upstream. Good opportunity to fix it for real :-)
  • Took random notes about a uniq job to test all extensions together. More later.

Browser tests[edit]

  • (Dan) Env abstraction layer thingy ready for some manual/functional testing
    • start with CentralAuth
    • experimental branch with multiple commits
  • (Dan) Sorting through rubocop-related commits and rewriting Ruby conventions
  • (Dan) Sent a survey reminder out (we're up to 49 responses (!!!))
    • next step: sending to wikitech-l/etc
  • (Dan) Working with Bryan on an outline for the tech talk in November

Hiring[edit]

  • RelEng in-progress

Other[edit]

Vacations/Confs/etc[edit]

  • 10/20 - 10/30 - Antoine might skip morning and work during evening {european pov}.
  • 10/30 - 10/31 Chris vacation
  • 11/3 - 11/7: Antoine - OpenStack Summit Paris
  • 11/11 - Antoine Holiday (WW1)
  • 11/ something Thanksgiving (US)