[QA] beta labs unreliable (still)

[Chris McMahon]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> The mobile dev team sent an email to this list a few weeks ago complaining
> about how unreliable beta labs is. Since then, the reliability seems to
> have actually gotten worse rather than better.
>

Today's issues caused by this patch to /operations/puppet/ :
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/164160/ . Self-merged after 13 minutes
in gerrit.


> This is having a significant negative effect on our team's productivity.
> We use beta labs very heavily (on a daily basis) for testing and QA
> purposes. Having it broken every other day is simply unacceptable. Either
> other teams (such as platform) needs to slow down their testing of risky
> features and changes or we need a separate QA environment for mobile
> development.
>

Agreed:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Second_Beta_Cluster

-Chris
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