Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170911
2017-09-11 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
- Sept 21: Antoine paperwork, but mostly working as usual
- Sept 29: Antoine, conference
- October 6 (Friday): Željko on a conference
- Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day
- November 1 (Wednesday): Željko local holiday (All Saints' Day)
- Nov 10 (Fri) - Veteran's Day
- Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
- Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
- Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
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
Sep 11 and Sept 18 edit
Sep 25 and Oct 2 edit
Actions from last meeting edit
Scrum of Scrums edit
This week edit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- NEED update on discovery-analytics for trebuchet->scap3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149
- NEED someone to help test OCG when we migrate it to scap3
- NEED, Jobrunner should be ready for deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888 (Krinkle? or anyone who can ensure the correct running of jobrunner post-deployment)
- Updates
Last week edit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- discovery/analytics -> scap3?
- Updates
Logspam \ Last week's train updates edit
Other Team Business edit
- Q2 Planning:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
- re CI: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- Main goals page for Technology: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q2
Q1 goal/project check-in edit
Program 6: Streamlined service delivery edit
- Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions - task T170482
- Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests - task T170483
- Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
- Tyler cleaned out Dan's review backlog, and even put one on Dan's :)
- something something 17.05 plan?
- blubber is close to an initial release
- already a working blubber and helm config for mathoid
Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290 edit
- Crap.
- Tyler handing off hand holding for iegreview/scholarships to Mukunda during puppetswat
Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) - task T139740 edit
- T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
- Heard back from Rachel, will pick a date in the next week or two.
Non-Quarterly goal work edit
Quality edit
Quality improvements edit
- Testing
- Zeljko and JR discussed potential series of blog posts/podcasts re testing, agree good idea and are starting planning it out.
- Tech Debt and Code Quality
- Provided overview of Tech Debt to Tech Management meeting
- following up with each manager to collect "Top 5"
- Provided overview of Tech Debt to Tech Management meeting
Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff) edit
Phabricator edit
Gerrit edit
Nightlies server edit
Docker for CI edit
Misc CI edit
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...