ReleaseEngineering/2011Q1 All-Hands Planning

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Meeting Notes

Topics We Should Talk About

Stuff that needs a whiteboard, or has gotten mired in bikeshedding, or which everyone really should know a little bit about.

  • Slave Allocator --Djmitche 13:03, 18 March 2011 (PDT)
    • UI and operational tour
    • Description of the deployment
    • Rollout plan
  • Staging Environment vs. Development --Djmitche 18:32, 18 March 2011 (PDT)
    • do we need a real staging environment, or should we just call it development?
    • do we need dedicated development slaves?
    • do development slaves need to be on staging-puppet too?
  • PyCon debrief --Djmitche 13:25, 21 March 2011 (PDT)
  • Puppet overhaul --Djmitche
    • New versions
    • Manifest reorganization
    • Puppet for masters
    • Adding redundancy/resiliency
    • Path from zero to victory
  • Adding a new project branch -- Lsblakk
  • Figure out when we meet next up, short notice often stomps on someone --NThomas
  • AUS3 and The Glorious Future --Catlee 14:14, 28 March 2011 (PDT)
  • builder explosion --Catlee 21:08, 29 March 2011 (PDT)
    • every branch we add adds LOTS of builders for build and test masters
    • can we go branch-less?
    • can variants of a test suite share a builder?
  • anything for IT+RelEng meeting tomorrow?
  • last minute questions from legneato, followup on update meeting this morning?

Discussions going on with other teams or other events

We might want to get some projects going and if anyone wants to join these discussions you can know who is organizing it:

  • Update developers brown bag -- armenzg - 13:20 18 March 2011 (PDT)
    • slides on email from Dec. 15
  • Determine with zandr requirements for new testing pool purchase -- armenzg - 13:20 18 March 2011 (PDT)
  • Determine with zandr, cshields, dustin plan for Windows package management on testing machines and Win2008 -- armenzg - 13:20 18 March 2011 (PDT)
    • (Q2 goal)
  • jmaher and xperf.exe -- armenzg - 13:20 18 March 2011 (PDT)
  • ateam mozharness talk