Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180903
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2018-09-03
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- August 31, September 4-5: Dan on vacation
- September 3 (Monday): US Holiday (Labor Day)
- September 6 (Thursday, half day) - 7 (Friday) Željko on a conference
- Mid september - Mid october, Antoine to take off some weeks/days/part time
Rotating positions
[edit]Train
[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
- July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July
- July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko
- July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljko
- July 23 - wmf.14 - Zeljko
- July 30 - wmf.15 - Mukunda
- Aug 06 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
- Aug 13 - wmf.17 - Mukunda (No train - Wednesday is a holiday)
- Aug 20 - wmf.18 - Tyler
- Aug 27 - wmf.19 - Dan && Antoine lurking over the shoulders
- Sep 03 - wmf.20 - Antoine
- Sep 10 - wmf.21 - Antoine -- No train due to DC switchover
- Sep 17 - wmf.22 - Antoine
- Sep 24 - wmf.23 - Zeljko (only one week for me?)
- Oct 01 - wmf.24 - Dan
- Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Dan -- No train due to DC switchover
- Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
- Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda
SoS
[edit]- July 04 - Dan
- July 11 - Antoine
- July 18 - Antoine
- July 25 - Tyler
- Aug 01 - Tyler
- Aug 08 - Zeljko
- Aug 15 - Dan (No SoS this week)
- Aug 22 - Zeljko
- Aug 29 - Zeljko
- Sep 05 - Tyler / Željko
- Sep 12 - Tyler
- Sep 19 - Dan
- Sep 26 - Dan
- Oct 03 - Zeljko
- Oct 10 - Zeljko
- Oct 17 - Antoine
- Oct 24 - Antoine
- Oct 31 - Mukunda
Team Business
[edit]Hiring
[edit]- Accepted!
First Offsite
[edit]Details:
- Week of December 3rd
- At the Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach
- Deb T will be facilitating
Needs attention
[edit]- Re-evaluate use of "Dependent Pipeline" in Zuul for gate-and-submit - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94322
- 2018-08-24 TODO: antoine and dan had followups IIRC
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sdqe5vCWu5UOVWIFyL_9vhzwMfwZzsRe2WP0uHn6pms/edit#
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums
This week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train:
- 1.32.0-wmf.20 at group 1, no problems
- on European time this week
- No train next week, DC switchover
- Log Health:
- Exception thrown for failure to save settings appears ~ 1000 times/day: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202149
- labtestweb2001 is sending updates to a read-only db host: db2037: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201082
- ErrorException from line EducationProgram PHP Notice: Undefined variable: retValue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203577
- Train:
Last week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Noise from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201082 during Train deployment (not really blocked but distracted)
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train: no major problems, 1.32.0-wmf.19 at group 0 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191065 https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- Log spam: Unknown modifier 'R': [/^page\-User\:BeneBot.+/RfD\-open/text$/] in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.32.0-wmf.16/extensions/Translate/stringmangler/StringMatcher.php https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202058
Train status and happenings
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Past week status updates
[edit]- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4
Quaterly Goals for Q1
[edit]Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context
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Code Health
[edit]- T199253 - Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
- Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
- T199254 - Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
- Review existing e2e test coverage.
- Define prioritization scheme.
- Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
- T199257 - make current unit testing coverage more visible by reporting out to Engineering Management.
- T199259 - Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
- T199262 - Identify key Tech Debt areas
- T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
- T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.
Developer Productivity
[edit]- 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
[edit]Selenium
[edit]- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js - code in final review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/422933
- T185011 Create MediaWiki-npm-browser-run-selenium-test-node-6-docker daily Jenkins job - the job is running but failing because beta cluster is different than other environments, will run just tests that pass for now https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/selenium-daily-beta-MediaWiki/
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - focusing on moving Nodepool jobs to Docker, then adding more jobs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/443931
Gerrit
[edit]Phabricator
[edit]- Elastic 6 support: Mostly finished now - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181393 ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1109 )
- I'd still like to make a cleaner way to roll this out without reindexing but elastic 6 compat work is done.
Jenkins
[edit]QA
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Document/Improve `scap swat` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196411
- Start on the survey for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197635
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Add Eval.JIT=1 to rebuildLocalisationCache.php in scap
- Start work on list of services for "staging"
- tmpfs for /tmp dir in quibble
- What I'm blocked on
- Blubber v0.5.0 update, will maybe poke the task
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js - code in final review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/422933
- T185011 Create MediaWiki-npm-browser-run-selenium-test-node-6-docker daily Jenkins job - the job is running but failing because beta cluster is different than other environments, will run just tests that pass for now https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/selenium-daily-beta-MediaWiki/
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - focusing on moving Nodepool jobs to Docker, then adding more jobs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/443931
- Testival conference http://www.testival.eu/
- What I'm blocked on
- Antoine is owner of this, so I can't un-WIP it, I think it's ready for review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/443931
- Other?
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...