The Release Engineering team's goal for the April-June 2016 quarter is to move everything that is currently deployed with Trebuchet over to Scap. With the release of Scap 3.1.0, everything that is deployed via Trebuchet can be ported to Scap—it supports git-fat, restarting services, and there is even a puppet provider.

== What is the timeline? ==

We have made tasks for all of the existing projects that are deployed via Trebuchet[0], and the goal is to move these all by **2016-06-30** (AKA the End of The Quarter™).

If we missed your project that is deployed via Trebuchet, please add a task with the #scap3 tag in phabricator.

== What is Scap? Why are we moving to it? ==

Scap is a tool that the Release Engineering team has been working on as a successor to the salt-based Trebuchet deployment system.

* Stable and secure SSH-based command and control * Detailed error logs available from every target node * Built on tools that everyone is familiar with—SSH and Git

== What does it mean to move to Scap? ==

To assist with the move from Trebuchet to Scap: * We have written documentation, including a quick start setup guide [1] * Release Engineering folks are available to help with migrations, questions, concerns in the #scap3 channel on freenode

== Why isn't Release Engineering just porting everything all by their lonesome? ==

We're hoping that by the end of the quarter, not only will we get all projects migrated, but we also want folks to be familiar with Scap and know how to troubleshoot their own deployments. In the end, the goal is to scale knowledge of how to use Wikimedia's deployment tooling to the wider organization instead of a handful of people. "Teach a person to fish"[2] and all...

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[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1824/ [1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/mw-tools-scap/scap3/quickstart/setup.html [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_a_man_a_fish_and_you_feed_him_for_a_day;...