2018-07-02

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

July 2 (Monday) Željko vacation
July 4: US Holiday
July 6: Mukunda worked all weekend on phabricator b.s., gonna take a day off if things calm down by Friday.
July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
August ~: Antoine
September a week or so - Antoine
Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani

Rotating positions

Train

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R

June 11 - wmf.8 - Dan (with Tyler doing Thursday)
June 18 - wmf.9 - Dan (no train, SRE summit)
June 25 - wmf.10 - Dan
July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July <----
July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko
July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljko
July 23 - wmf.14 - Antoine
July 30 - wmf.15 - Antoine

SoS

June 13 - Tyler
June 20 - Tyler
June 27 - Tyler
July 04 - Dan <----
July 11 - Dan
July 18 - Dan
July 25 - Zeljko
August 01 - Zeljko
August 08 - Antoine
August 15 - Antoine

Team Business

Updates

Train/SWAT changes
- Greg emailed mark/faidon on Tuesday (12th, 25th, and verbal ping on 26th)
- email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/eu-train-swat

Staging (ohai)

SRE talked about it at their offsite, read up on the changes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CT_pKjwiDmFhZZ9LW9mz0z434-wgr3NFdapUPWUvMNA/edit?ts=5b040955#heading=h.j5ulvrixnnxf

Phabricator spam

CommunityTechBot running
Implemented per-IP throttling - causing problems with the WMF Office
- whitelisted office and CommunityTechBot
- still more to determine here on throttling
bd808 created a tool to open up blocking of accounts to more people than just admins
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/phab-ban/

Scrum of Scrums

Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

This week

Release Engineering

Blocking
Blocked
Updates
Quarterly cross-dependencies
- European MediaWiki Train window....

Last week

Blocking
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710
Blocked
Updates
- FYI: Release Engineering will start including Europeans in our train rotation meaning that the MW Train will now include European appropriate windows for those weeks. Exact schedule TBA to wikitech-l@, ops@, engineering@, and @wikitech-ambassadors@
Quarterly cross-dependencies

Train status and happenings

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

Lock timeout rollback, but got back on track on Thursday
Save timing increased 50%: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198483

Past week status updates

All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4

Quaterly Goals for Q1

Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context

Code Health

Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
Review existing e2e test coverage.
Define prioritization scheme.
Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
Identify key Tech Debt areas
Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
Define base Code Health metric set.

Developer Productivity

Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.
Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. - task T197635

Other work

Selenium

Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements

Gerrit =

Phabricator =

Ongoing phabricator vandalism is a mess.
The vandal appears to be going to work on weekends with the intent of maximizing disruption to staff time off.
bd808 created a thing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/phab-ban/
Some relevant tasks:

Standup!

Antoine

What I plan to do this week
What I'm blocked on
- MediaWiki Selenium tests fail on bunch of extensions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196960
  - Potentially we might want to only run them when there are tests present.
Other?

Dan

What I plan to do this week
- Continue refactoring service-pipeline Groovy code into integration/pipelinelib
  - Got it working on releases-jenkins.wikimedia.org last week
  - It's unit tested :)
What I'm blocked on
- nada
Other?

Greg

What I plan to do this week
- Get ya'll those JDs, give me referrals!
- Update skills matrix a bit more (ideas!)
- grooming of -kanban and other workboards for the new quarter
- verify all the things with T&C with T&C related things
- verify Q4 goals on wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q4
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Jean-Rene

What I plan to do this week
- Finish Beta Cluster slice/dice
- Continue work on Tech Debt review of Search Platform and Platform teams
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Mukunda

What I plan to do this week
- Deal with phab vandalism
  - need a better way to whitelist rate limiting
- Post-mortem on phab vandalism
- Take a day off sometime
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Tyler

What I plan to do this week
What I'm blocked on
- knowledge of gerrit
Other?
- https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/national-homebrew-competition/winners/

Zeljko

What I plan to do this week
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - needed for T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side
What I'm blocked on
Other?
- Croatia 🇭🇷 in quarter-finals ⚽️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#Quarter-finals

Grooming

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

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...

Kanban stats

Burnup chart