On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Greg Grossmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep. From the team manager perspective. Antoine from the technical > perspective (when he's back from paternity leave, Dan Duvall and Bryan and > Reedy until then). > > -- > Sent from my phone, please excuse brevity. > > On Sep 5, 2014 4:08 PM, "Ryan Kaldari" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So did we ever decide who the official point person for Beta Labs issues >> is? Greg?
I would recommend that in addition to (or as a way of) making Greg aware of an emergent operational concern with beta labs you pop into #wikimedia-qa on irc and let us all know what you are seeing. Consider #-qa the beta equivalent of #wikimedia-operations in production. Filing bugs in bugzilla under the "Wilimedia Labs" product and "deployment-prep (beta)" component [0] is also a great thing to do to follow up or to report concerning but not urgent issues. Thanks to recent work by Yuvi and Daniel Zahn we now have much better automated monitoring of the beta project (and labs in general) so hopefully by the time you show up on irc the answer you hear will be that we are already working to resolve the problem. I would also highly encourage all teams who have come to depend on beta running smoothly for thier day to day testing needs to have one or two developers become familiar with the deployment-prep project and willing to lend a hand when things get weird. I would be glad to offer some of my copious free time (heh) to give some group tours of the beta infrastructure via hangout as a means for spreading knowledge in return for folks helping update stale documentation. Getting comfortable in beta is a great gateway to helping out in production and generally learning about a breadth of production WMF mechanics. I would extend a similar offer to do paring/demos with teams who want to setup their own controlled testing environments in a labs project. The ease of use and functionality offered by the integration of MediaWiki-Vagrant and Labs has come a long way in the last 6 months or so. It is now possible to run a multiple wiki setup on a single host in labs which provides fully functional CentralAuth services. In return I'd only ask that new configuration which is needed to set these environments up is contributed back to MediaWiki-Vagrant in the form of puppet patches that can be shared with other staff and volunteers and that gotchas are documented to help ease the learning curve for the next team. [0]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?component=deployment-prep%20%28beta%29&product=Wikimedia%20Labs Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ QA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa
