That's awesome, but, was there food too? :)

Thanks for all your hard work, good job!


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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:33 AM, David Causse <[email protected]> wrote:

> That's certainly the most productive kitchen I've ever seen!
>
> Thank you everyone!
>
>
> Le 20/06/2016 12:55, Guillaume Lederrey a écrit :
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I had a few friends coming over this Sunday for a mini Hackathon in my
>> kitchen. The goal was mainly to introduce them to what we do around
>> Wikipedia, have fun, exchange ideas and maybe do actual work on a few
>> tickets. Quick summary of what we did:
>>
>> * Fix a few puppet unit tests [1][2]
>> * Try to fix sending logs to logstash from elasticsearch [3][4]. We
>> could not reproduce the issue with security manager with a local
>> installation of elasticsearch and I did not prepare access to
>> deployment-prep where we could have validated the issue.
>> * Added a few tests to our elasticsearch admin tool (estool) [5]
>> * Refactoring of Cassandra monitoring [6][7] (thanks to Luca for the
>> fast code review!). This one prompted a great conversation. It was
>> fairly unclear to us how to best integrate monitoring in a DRY way,
>> while keeping the core of the Cassandra module free from external
>> dependencies. We are all used to have a technical module
>> (puppet-cassandra) that only manage core Cassandra and a higher level
>> module (puppet-wmf_cassandra) that configure Cassandra in the context
>> of WMF, with the all peripheral fonctions (monitoring, firewall,
>> logging, ...). This higher level abstraction kind of exists in the
>> roles, but multiple roles might use Cassandra, and might lead to some
>> duplication. The change [6] is probably more the start of a
>> conversation than something that can be merged as is.
>> * We tried to have a go at adding unit tests to Kartotherian [8], but
>> ran into an issue with mapnik and were not able to build the project.
>> None of us had any experience with Node development or Kartotherian.
>> We moved to other stuff.
>>
>> The day was fun! Thanks to all who joined! Special +1 to Mara who put
>> a lot of energy in learning Python for the first time (and
>> succeeded!).
>>
>> I'll try to followup on the changed opened during that day, make sure
>> that those contributions, however small, are not forgotten.
>>
>> We will be back!
>>
>>    MrG
>>
>> [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295127/
>> [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295130/
>> [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295129/
>> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136696
>> [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/290765/
>> [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/295123/
>> [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137422
>> [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111950
>>
>>
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