Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Meetings/2019-03-04

Meeting 2019-03-04

On Google Hangouts Meet.

• Brennen
• Dan
• Lars
• Zeljko

Agenda

The goal of this meeting is to review the feedback we've received so far, and get started with evaluation.

Actions from previous meeting:

• Done: Lars to make a weekly blog post with updates of the WG work, for publicity, and to ask for feedback
• Done: All: Ask for suggestions within our personal networks (linking to blog, when it's published)
• Done: Lars to ask Dan if he wants to join the WG as well.
• Done: Lars to give a short presentation/demo of Ick to the WG and anyone else interested.
• Done: Lars+Zeljko to set up Phabricator subtasks for what to do next for WG

Notes

• Dan has joined the WG.

• Review feedback so far.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/148/choosing_tools_for_continuous_integration/
  • https://social.nasqueron.org/@liw/101671161025682873
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uv35ptq2ptyuhcfg
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG/Requirements
    • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uv30slgrmscwld7c

• Which candidates can we say don't fulfill the very hard requirements? What's left?

• Pick the first two or three candidates to implement the toy CI project with and write an evaluation report on.

Actions

• TODO: Lars to send invite for Tuesday
• TODO: Zeljko, Brennen to find more tools to evaluate, do a first cut of shortening of list based on very hard requirements
• TODO: Lars: Start evaluating GitLab, Concourse