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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Team Leads meeting 2010-11-24
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    chair: thumper

    next meeting 2010-12-01 17:00 UTC, chair bigjools

Date: 24 November (UTC)
Chair: Tim Penhey

= Good news =

Curtis:
 - the last bridging the gap branch is approved for landing
 - jml to sign off on the feature tomorrow

Diogo:
 - you guys are doing such a good job in qa having a hard time bringing things 
to the meeting

Francis:
 - Tom is reviewing change to tuolumne and config tweaks so failures in one 
won't break the other

Gary:
 - Stuart has the psychopg change that lets us move to the maverick package in 
db-devel now
 - now ready to integrate mailman 3, will look after new year

Jonathan:
 - feeling good for 3 out of 5 days

Julian:
 - it is going to snow on Friday

Robert:
 - we have broken the back of the postgres 8.4 upgrade fallout with timings 
almost back to normal again

Tim:
 - nothing lept to mind

Apologies
  Danilo Šegan
  Deryck Hodge
  Elliot Murphy


= Action Items =

 * ACTION: Francis and Robert to come up with a plan on automating requests
   for a rollout.
   - LPS is enough for now, considering done

 * ACTION: Robert will propose a new definition of critical.
   - not done

 * ACTION: Francis will revise the hand off definition
   - not done

 * ACTION: Francis to investigate the visibility into the length of request
   queues. This could be graphed.
   - RT filed, considering done

= QA issues =

Bug #628239: InconsistentBuildFarmJobError raised browsing +builds
page <https://launchpad.net/bugs/628239>
  - priority raised, Aaron to look at it

Bug #681034: UnknownURLScheme raised running distributionmirror-prober
script <https://launchpad.net/bugs/681034>
 - Curtis already sorted this one

= Topic requests =

#launchpad, Help Rotation and user support (Julian)

 - prompted by noticing a lot of help requests on #launchpad
 - are people getting more lax? is the process working?
 - jml: possibly merge #launchpad and #launchpad-dev?
 - risk of people getting scared off, but also risk of thinking no one is
   around to help
 - ACTION: Francis to get Sarah to add CHR to weekly email
 - ACTION: Julian to take to the list


= Incident review =

IncidentReports/2010-11-17-LP-Private-PPA-500-errors (bigjools)
 - still not filled out properly
 - cowboy still outstanding, fixed now
 - QA coverage wasn't as good as it could have been,
 - recommendation - do fully end to end QA rather than observational

IncidentReports/2010-11-17-buildd-manager-disabling-builders (bigjools)
 - still on-going
 - cowboy on the build manager
 - still trying to work out what is going on
 - manager is disabling after 5 failures
 - possible infrastructure problem
 - lifeless: perhaps we are exposing existing flakyness
 - ACTION: add a feature flag to have a failure threshold
 - ACTION: file a bug about some automated testing script

IncidentReports/2010-11-19-LP-PullerBroken (thumper)
IncidentReports/2010-11-19-LP-code-imports-failing (thumper)
 - due to lack of QA on staging or qastaging combined with a bzr bug
 - ACTION: thumper to start of a QA helper page to outline what to test
 - ACTION: thumper to file RT for code import slaves on qastaging

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