DeveloperServices/TeamMeetings/2015-04-28

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Meeting Info

• 11 am Pacific Time
• Vidyo room: DeveloperServices
• Backchannel in #vcs

Hot items

• On Call Handoff!!!
  • fubar → hwine

Stand-up

Last week

• bkero
  • Run hgweb out of v-c-t repository
  • At Linuxfest Northwest conference
• fubar
  • DXR docker build container
• gps
  • RelEng mini work week in PDX
  • Ansible playbooks for hg.mo deployments
    • Deploying extensions and hooks
    • Re-cloning repos on hgweb nodes
    • Wrote an Ansible module for manipulating Stingray load balancer state
  • Ansible playbook for deploying MozReview to production
  • Churned through review backlog
  • hg.mozilla.org now displays the revision of version-control-tools it was deployed from
  • Review and deploy bug 1157547 so bug number regexps are better
  • Due diligence for Mercurial 3.4
    • Reported a few performance regressions
    • Sent a few small patches to upstream
  • Starting re-cloning repositories on hgweb nodes so repository store is up to date
    • Discovered time bomb when syncing hgrc files referencing newer hooks.
    • Need to kill library_overrides (bug 1159099)
  • Patched `mach mercurial-setup` for compatibility with next release of MozillaBuild
  • Aided RyanVM with Mercurial packaging for next MozillaBuild

• hwine
  • releng work week
  • sick
• lmandel
  • catchup
  • lots of random discussions about quality, Win64, vendors in Whistler, other Whistler planning, more deliverables stuff, ...
• smacleod
  • Kept working on fixing diffs in RB
    • Spoke with core RB about diff changes, needed to restructure things a bit
    • Turned out RB git parser was slightly broken needed to fix to make hg git diff parsing work

Planned for this week

• bkero
  • Finish hgweb out of v-c-t repository, start testing
• fubar
  • DXR
    • docker tweaks, look at jenkins for scheduling builds
    • possibly spin up SCL3 env for builds, web?
• gps
  • Continue iterating on v-c-t dev/test environment so others are unblocked and can move faster
  • hg.mo deployment foo
• hwine
  • vcs-sync
  • cvs final bits
  • releng 38.0 beta
• lmandel
  • back to svn decom plan (hopefully)
  • reviewing team wiki/docs
  • goals cleanup
• smacleod
  • Get RB diff stuff up for review ASAP (I'd appreciate if gps did a skim review of the RB core changes as well).
  • Track down a few MozReview bugs
  • Start on empty file toggle work

Other business

• (lmandel) Decommissioning bzr
  • Can someone volunteer to create a tarball of the Bugzilla repo (any other repos that need them) that we can upload to ftp?
  • Who can help decommission the server when we're ready?
• (lmandel) Whistler planning
  • What does our team want to accomplish? (What is our goal?)
  • education
    • session for platform/all about how to develop more efficiently (build and hg best practices)
    • session on non vcs offerings - mozreview, new engineers and dxr, treeherder
  • Q3 planning with other teams (releng)?
    • meetup with IT about decom SVN
    • speaking with releng about taskcluster usage patterns
    • MozReview team for smacleod, gps
  • create developer centric list of pain points developing Firefox
    • roundtable discussion about this at Whistler
    • cpeterson and lmandel did some of this a couple of years ago with roadblocks to productivity
      • perhaps more engineering specific - eng and testers, need to know what teams people are on (team, type of development)

PTOs, etc

• bkero pto Friday
• gps (maybe) pto Friday

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