Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20171218
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2017-12-18
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- December Fridays - Greg is taking off
- December 20-22: Dan - holiday
- December 25 (Monday): Željko - holiday (Christmas Day)
- December 26 (Tuesday): Željko - holiday (St Stephen's Day)
- Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
- January 1 (Monday): Željko - holiday (New Year's Day)
Team Business
[edit]Rotating positions and absences
[edit]Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
Dec 18 and Dec 25
[edit]- Train: NO ONE!
- SoS: Chad
- Out:
- Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
- December 25 (Monday): Željko - holiday (Christmas Day)
- December 26 (Tuesday): Željko - holiday (St Stephen's Day)
- Antoine - not sure yet of the exact dates
Jan 1 and Jan 8
[edit]Actions from last meeting
[edit]Scrum of Scrums
[edit]This week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Teams that did not port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (T139740): No team (1), Editing (1), Fundraising Tech (1), Global Collaboration (4), Multimedia (1), Reading Web (3), WMDE Engineering (5)
- Updates
- REMINDER: No deploys this week and next (18th and 25th). Take a break :)
Last week
[edit]- Blocking
- MW Platform team: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182344 - "Blocker must be a local user or a name that cannot be a local user"
- Updates
- [MW Train] Reminder! This is your last week of deployments for the year/quarter! No non-emergency deploys starts the week of December 18th.
- [Meta] Q3 goal planning
- [Security/Ruby] T180878 Upgrade RuboCop and Rubyzip (Ruby)
- All done except for Minerva (needs a +2) and mediawiki/debian (unsure if needed).
- [Security/Jenkins] Upgraded a bunch of Jenkins plugins Monday morning EU time (after a bunch of security releases).
- [Phabricator] Exploring the use of Selenium tests for search quality regressions
- [TechDebt] Getting further on the definition of “steward”. We will be talking with Victoria and Toby “soon”.
- [SSD] One more merge (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395570/) and our quarterly goals are complete.
- [PostMortem] ORES post-mortem completed last week: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Post-Mortem-T181006
Puppet SWAT
[edit]- list of patches you want to submit to Puppet SWAT
Logspam \ Last week's train updates
[edit]- a couple things with fixes
- going to spend some time this week tidying it up before the holidays
Other Team Business
[edit]Q3 goals! :) :)
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3
- All Technology goals, our's there now: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q3
Program 1: webdriver.io
[edit]- T182421 Selenium framework improvements
- Things to do in the next quarter.
Program 3: Tech Debt
[edit]Outcome 1
- Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091
- Objective 3: Define and steward a light-weight process for adopting or orphaning/sunsetting products and infrastructure.
- This is done by the Sunsetting working group
Outcome 2
- Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
- Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))
Program 6: SSD
[edit]- The verify stage of the pipeline
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Containerized_continuous_delivery_2017_concept.png
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Streamlined_Service_Delivery_Design#Step_4:_Isolated_deploy_and_e2e_tests
- When to make new builds
- Pushing into a k8s cluster (not staging)
- In the interim do something with GCE for basis end-to-end tests
- Pre-Dependency on Ops:
- CI k8s cluster for the Verify pipeline stage
Other
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) =
[edit]- SCAP doesn't actually deploy tags or non-default branches. This should be resolved in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D918
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure =
[edit]- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
- Draft requirements for a CI k8s cluster in preparation for Ops to create it in the following quarter(ish)
- Nodepool deprecation: npm and php jobs, but there will be a long tail of corner case jobs
- https://i.imgur.com/2XB7Lp8.png
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server
[edit]- chad point on this, bulk of time
- Sam Reed and Chad will work on setting it up this week
Q2 goal/project check-in
[edit]- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
Quarterly Goals
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Quarter Goal Task: Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740
- T174103 [Epic] Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js for the Search Platform
- making a list for SoS of needed migrations still
- CirrusSearch/Discovery closed the migrate task, there are still some ruby selenium tests in the repo though, investigating :)
- T175179 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job for CirrusSearch
- Got smoke tests running both locally and in CI
- JJB configuration still TODO
Ruby
[edit]- T180878 Upgrade RuboCop and Rubyzip
- All done.
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations)
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Quatertly Goal task: - task T174090
- Waiting to talk to Victoria/Toby
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
[edit]- Due: End of next quarter
- Quaterly Goal task - task T174091
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 1: Define a “Technical Debt Project Manager” role that regularly communicates with all Foundation engineering teams regarding their technical debt
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
[edit]- Due: End of next quarter
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to publish new versions of an application to production via testing and staging environments that reliably reproduce production
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Keyword: SSD
- Complete build phase of release pipeline
- Build test variant
- Run test entrypoint w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Build production variant w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Tag production container
- Push to production docker registry - ops dependency - staging namespace
- Tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157469
- current status: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
- quarterly goal complete https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395570/
- starting thinking about next quarter
- dan working on helm config
- tyler made a minikube host in ci (integration-slave-k8s-1002)
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
[edit]- scap deb build mishaps
- scap deb was built from master (oops)
- included the git flat dir
- on the rebuild the quilt patches weren't applied, (oooops!)
- rebuilt again, now works
- documentation updates incoming
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
- docker-face: https://i.imgur.com/2XB7Lp8.png
- working with docker-pkg, migrating images to that build system
- it's working more or less :)
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
[edit]- Gerrit user login issue
- Upgrade planned for this week
- scap deploy!
- maybe... zuul is incompatible with 2.14, and hard to upgrade right now
- blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158243
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator
[edit]- Allow CoC committee to temporarily disable Phab user accounts
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server
[edit]- plugging along
Other work
[edit]- Follow-up work re ORES Post Mortem
- Services review
- Extension review
Grooming
[edit]Team Kanban Board Review and Triage
[edit]- closed and touched in the 7 days
- No update for 4 weeks
- No update for 3 weeks
- No update for 2 weeks
- No update for 1 week
- All Open
- Review To Triage column of #releng
Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)
[edit]- releng Review To Triage column of #releng
- releng-kanban Review unassigned in kanban
- releng-kanban Review 'backlog' colum of -kanban
- releng-next - Review for things we need to put on our kanban backlog
- releng-backlog - oh my, the huge backlog of things...