ReleaseEngineering/2011-Q3-Workweek
Dates & Location
- July 25-29th, 2011
- Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Downtown, Peter Street
Since the new Toronto office is not expected to be ready in time for this work week, we are using a conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn as our headquarters. There are plenty of restaurants nearby, walkable from the hotel, and should the new Toronto office be ready it is a mere 2 minutes walk away.
Travel
See Checkin/Checkout on the spreadsheet.
Topics
Please list topics of interest for discussion here and then we can populate the schedule from this:
- Autoland overview/presentation
- Getting rid of reconfigs - Dustin suggested red/green system where we spin up half the masters on a Tuesday (and gracefully shut down the others) and vice versa on Thursdays -- let's discuss this and other ideas and come up with a solution for buildbot maintenance that can be a) done by anyone (usually buildduty) and b) won't take all day.
- Updates - what are some things we could do to work with other teams (SUMO, marketing, Army of Awesome) to get people off of older versions where possible? (Lukas would like to look into this after being inspired by Aurora Usage Growth Plan and bug 666046
- Strategic planning for Talos R4 - using different hardware
- Brainstorming Session on config organization - we have a lot of combinations of products / platforms / builds / tests...how cat we express these relationships well?
- db-powered?
- things like try spidermonkey/valgrind - adding modular pieces/projects to a branch and not others (pref. dynamically)
- separate "how" from when/where
- Bringing buildbot masters up to date with upstream and tracking upstream more closely
- sqlalchemy refactoring
- what else differs?
- mobile release changes
- Android Market
- RelEng presentations
- "New Hire Brown bag" - corrections? How to get it shown to all newhires? (video + karen playback?)
- "How Mozilla RelEng does the magic" - show to external companies
- how to build a community of RelEng people
- other ways to spread the word?
- Blue sky projects - things we dream of doing that may even sound crazy!?!?
- git?
- integration external 3rd party products as part of release automation?
- what dashboards do people *in* RelEng want to see?
- what dashboards do people *outside* of RelEng want to see?
- ...what else?
Schedule
We have the room from 8am - 5pm each day. Outside food & drinks are not allowed so depending on the strictness of that we may also want to factor in coffee breaks in the mid-morning/afternoon so some people can get their caffeine fix. The room will have a whiteboard for brainstorming, and additional power cords/extension cords for our use. If something really needs projecting perhaps the Toronto office can lend us a projector - the room does have a screen.
Monday July 25
| Time | Topic | Leader/Presenter |
| 8:00 | my, my, it's early | |
| 9:00 | ||
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| 11:00 | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | ||
| 14:00 | Mofo/moco call | |
| 15:00 | Desktop+Mobile release automation | Rail |
| 16:00 | Desktop+Mobile release automation | Rail |
Tuesday July 26
| Time | Topic | Leader/Presenter |
| 8:00 | ||
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| 11:00 | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Reviews | |
| 14:00 | Reviews, Platform meeting | |
| 15:00 | Reviews | |
| 16:00 | Reviews |
Wednesday July 27
| Time | Topic | Leader/Presenter |
| 8:00 | ||
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
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| 16:00 |
Thursday July 28
| Time | Topic | Leader/Presenter |
| 8:00 | ||
| 9:00 | ||
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
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| 16:00 |
Friday July 29
| Time | Topic | Leader/Presenter |
| 8:00 | ||
| 9:00 | ||
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| 11:00 | ||
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | ||
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| 16:00 |
Review Schedule
| Day | Time | Who |
| Tuesday July 26 | 1pm | Coop, Jhford |
| Tuesday July 26 | 1pm | Catlee, Ben |
| Tuesday July 26 | 1pm | Joduinn, Aki |
| Tuesday July 26 | 2pm | Coop, Bear |
| Tuesday July 26 | 2pm | Catlee, Rail |
| Tuesday July 26 | 3pm | Coop, Dustin |
| Tuesday July 26 | 3pm | Catlee, Nick |
| Tuesday July 26 | 4pm | Coop, Armen |
| Tuesday July 26 | 4pm | Catlee, Lukas |
| Wednesday July 27 | 10am | Joduinn, Catlee |
| Wednesday July 27 | 11am | Joduinn, Coop |
Not being reviewed: Joey, Marc
Group Dinners & After-hours Activities
Not set in stone, but based on the preferred nights of some team members, these are hopefully a good fit for a couple of organized group dinners (ie: where we make reservations and eat around the same table).
Monday July 25
Dinner at Tutti Matti (Italian, obv)
Thursday July 28
Bowling
Thursday night we'll go to The Ballroom for some bowling and food/drinks, hopefully with any available/interested MoTo folks and their SOs as well. Please sign up below (and mention how many + for SO/family) if you would like to come out and play so we can gauge if a corp booking is feasible (we'd need 30 people min for that).
- Dustin
- Bear
- Rail
- Armen
- + Veronica
- Lukas (poss. +1)
- John Ford
- John O'Duinn
- Aki
- Joey
- Coop
- Ben
- Nick
- Catlee
- Marc
- jdm
- Chelsea
- bwinton
- Marc