Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170118
2017-01-18
Vacations/Important dates
- Jan 26-27: Chad, maybe
- February 20: President's Day
- March 13: Monthly day off
- April 14: Monthly day off
Team Business
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
Feb 6 and Feb 13
Actions from last meeting
- Greg: reply to kubernetes email to ops
Done
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
Last week
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- No train next week
- New person! JR Branaa, come say hi
Other Team Business
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.
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#New_SWAT_Team_member_check-list
- Greg hasn't responded yet :/
Mid-year check-in
- What? When?
- not this week :/
Quarterly Review
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
Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization
- Gather requirements for new CI system - T153270
- Tyler will schedule stalk people
Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)
Build fanout support in scap3
Phabricator
- Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator - T146843
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
Beta Cluster
People status updates
Antoine
Last week
This week
Chad
Last week
All hands + dev summit
This week
Train, multiversion cleanups, scap, gerrit
Dan
Last week
This week
JR
Last week
Wramp-up (environment,people), All-hands, Administrative
This week
QA Interview prep (question, people), Wramp-up cont...
Mukunda
Last week
- All hands
This week
- Made a large amount of progress on porting Scap 3 to Python 3
- Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
Tyler
Last week
- Talking
This week
- Scap 3.5.0
- Setup some kind of requirements gather meeting for CI thangs.
Željko
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