2016-02-22

Vacations/Important dates

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

Feb 24-26 - Dan - vacation
March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
March 11th - Željko - probably working half day, traveling to a conference in the afternoon
March 25th Friday - Tyler
March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
April 1st - Q4 goals published
April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks
May 6th Friday - Antoine
May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
June (mid): Chad - EDC
June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
July 1st - Q1 goals published
July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
August: France holiday - because french. :)
January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

Rotating positions

Train conductor

Week of ...

Feb 22: Chad (except thurs?) Tyler volunteers to "toot the horn"
Feb 29: Chad
Mar 7: Mukunda
Mar 14: Mukunda
Mar 21: Tyler

Scrum of Scrums representative

(bad time for EU folks) Week of ...

Feb 22: Tyler
Feb 29: Tyler
Mar 7: Chad
Mar 14: Chad

= CI point person

reassess later

Actions from last meeting

TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
  - Overdue

New vs Maint time spent

Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

Blocked on ops (sorta):

Refactor phabricator module in puppet to remove git tag pinning behavior https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125851

(resolved) scap::target should use scap's debian package instead of trebuchet https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127215

Other Team Business

FOSDEM report back

Annual Planning

Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0

Planning worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0

Q3 goal/project check-in

Reduce CI Wait time

KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen

Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138

php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139
as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140

Migrate Jenkins to Jessie - task T124121

Migrate services CI jobs to node 4.3 -> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126991

Which is to run npm jobs for services on Nodepool instances.

3 out of 6 migrated mathoid/deploy fails for unknown reason => Math folks graphoid blocked on puppet work => ops || services parsoid have to refined the jobs that are run => Me

I will start migrating npm jobs to Nodepool this week in a cowboy way (ie during European mornings).

Consolidate deploy tools

Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313

Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926

AQS is very close to moving to Scap3
Decided on first steps
- Depool proxies
- Fanout git deploys
Probably need to touch binary deployment

Differential Migration

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly

Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31

Shepherd the RFC - task T119908

Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320

Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Other Work

Beta cluster / ORES

wikitech-l has an announcement about ORES (revision scoring) to be pushed to production. I have asked about the beta cluster and we have a task to which I have made a sale speech:

 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127661

I can't reasonably support them. It is a nice project half volunteer driven and with Aaron Halfaker involved for which I have a huge respect.

It is probably a nice project to step in and help, specially if you are

looking to interact with volunteers.