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2016-12-05

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Vacations/Important dates

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

  • Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
  • December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
  • December 26-30: XMas Holiday
  • January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
  • January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
  • January 9-11: Dev Summit
  • January 12-13: All Hands
  • January 16: MLK Jr Day
  • February 20: President's Day
  • March 13: New day off for some reason
  • April 14: New day off for some reason

Team Business

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Time spent spreadsheet

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Rotating positions and absences

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Nov 28 and Dec 5

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Dec 12 and Dec 19

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Dec 26 and Jan 2

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Actions from last meeting

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Scrum of Scrums

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

This week

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Last week

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Other Team Business

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QA Hire

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  • One candidate through all interviews, maybe a circle up this week with interview loop


kafka

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Q2 goal/project check-in

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Future of CI plan

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Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.
  • Meeting with Ops this week, ready?

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1)

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Use a unified git repo for MW deploys

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Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW

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Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing

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Release MediaWiki 1.28

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Non-Quarterly goal work

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Browser tests

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Beta Cluster

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Phabricator

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  • Built a search index with elasticsearch
  • Upstream just added stemming to the mysql search engine
  • Played with elasticsearch indexing
  • Nearly completed clustered repositories with phab2001
    • Hit a bug related to phab's lack of IPv6 support
      • Upstream is working on fixing IPv6
  • Nearly completed phab on jessie
    • role::phabricator::main now works on jessie
    • role::phabricator::main now works on labs

DB Inconsistencies

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )


People status updates

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • Nodepool quota to be bumped on Tuesday
  • Some MediaWiki PHP job to Nodepool
  • E2E job on Nodepool with Zeljko

This week

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  • EasyTimeline fix for Chinese wikipedia
  • Nodepool/Permanent slaves doc
  • Dig in migrating jobrunner deployment to scap3


Chad

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Last week

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This week

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Dan

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Last week

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This week

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Mukunda

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Last week

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  • Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
  • See also: phabricator

This week

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  • Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
    • Continue experimenting with elasticsearch
      • Come up with a way to a/b test queries on both mysql and elasticsearch
    • This week or next
      • fail over to phab2001
      • reimage iridium to jessie, renamed to phab1001


Tyler

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Last week

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  • work on ci-staging
  • lots of review of scap code

This week

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  • moar scap code review
  • Some puppet patches incoming, likely for ci-staging stuff


Željko

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Last week

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  • T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • T151442 Research webdriver.io
  • T151443 Research nightwatchjs

This week

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  • T152422 Release new version of mediawiki_selenium
  • T146916 RSpec tests for Echo Mention notification
  • T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • T151442 Research webdriver.io
  • T151443 Research nightwatchjs