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2017-01-23

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • Jan 26-27: Chad, maybe
  • February 20: President's Day
  • March 13: Monthly day off
  • April 14: Monthly day off


Team Business

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Time spent spreadsheet

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Rotating positions and absences

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Jan 23 and Jan 30

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  • Train: Mukunda
  • SoS: Dan
  • Out:
    • Chad: 1/26-27, maybe


Feb 6 and Feb 13

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Actions from last meeting

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  • Greg: reply to martin


Scrum of Scrums

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

This week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates
    • scap 3.5 planned for this week

Last week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates
    • Train/deploys back to normal

Other Team Business

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Volunteer deployers ?

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Mid-year check-in

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  • Next week...

Quarterly Review

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Annual Planning

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Q3 goal/project check-in

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

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Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270
  • Tyler will schedule stalk people
    • Status?
  • Want a preliminary meeting with dan/hashar to get on same page before bringing in others (had a brief one with dan)
    • Tuesday 9am-9:30am pst?
  • ^ works for marko and giuseppe (other folks targetted for meeting); cuts it close for hashar
  • purpose: preliminary requirements, scope, initial POC targets
  • short: 30mins
  • There is a workboard now: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
    • Just getting started

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)

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Build fanout support in scap3

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276

3.5.0 -- this week! On beta

Changelog

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MediaWiki

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  • sync-dir and sync-file are now the same command
    • sync-dir is deprecated
  • l10n-purge is no longer a command
  • Flatten the deployment directory into a single git repository (prep for git sync)
    • /srv/mediawiki-staging is many git repos
    • /srv/medaiwiki is one git repo
  • Canaries now use explicit service for logstash_checker.py (checks fatals too)
  • old proxies and canaries (not in mw-installation) ignored
  • Fix for git-cache-info (sha1 regex)

Services/Scap3

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  • (no message) -> (no justification)
  • Improved rollback behavior
    • all groups rolled back
    • per group and global failure limit
    • skip rollback where host failed due to ssh

General/Fun

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  • optional fancy progress bar
  • improved cowsay compatibility for scap say


Phabricator

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Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator - task T146843
  • Making good progress on ElasticSearch query optimization. I have a working prototype and I hope to deploy that this week for testing.


Non-Quarterly goal work

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Browser tests

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  • T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing
    • fixed
  • T155794 Browser test Jenkins videos are corrupt
    • low prio
  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
    • looked into credential storage libraries

Beta Cluster

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People status updates

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Antoine

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Last week

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This week

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Chad

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Last week

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Train, multiversion cleanups, scap, gerrit

This week

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Dan

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Last week

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This week

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JR

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Last week

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QA Interview prep (question, people), Incident Review, Wramp-up cont...

This week

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Identify first pass interviewees and schedule interviews, build knowledge re CI now and future, build knowledge of current QA/Test processes.

Mukunda

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Last week

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  • Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
  • Optimized Phabricator's ElasticSearch query builder.

This week

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  • Deployment train, 1.29.0-wmf.9 / T154683
  • Deploy ~2 months worth of phabricator updates.

Tyler

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Last week

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  • Scap 3.5.0
  • Setup some kind of requirements gather meeting for CI thangs.


This week

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  • scap 3.5.0
  • Future of CI prep stuffs
  • Git fat deployment?
  • would like to poke at some puppet updates: scap/ci-staging


Željko

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Last week

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  • jet lag
  • T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing
  • T155794 Browser test Jenkins videos are corrupt

This week

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  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
  • T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster
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