Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20171204
2017-12-04 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- Dec 4th (Monday): Antoine - no train were available from Paris to my city!
- Dec 11-13th - Chad. Maybe? Friend might be flying into town and I need to play tour guide if so
- December Fridays - Greg is taking off
- 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 4 and Dec 11 edit
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
- ACTION: git-lfs in Gerrit
- a test repo was created
- question: git-lfs supports objects that are <= 2GB ... is that a problem?
- phab side: still need to enable it and figure out storage backend
- ACTION: see if the 2 gig limit is real :)
- there's a config thing
Scrum of Scrums edit
This week edit
Release Engineering edit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- [MW Train] Reminder! This is your last few weeks of deployments for the year/quarter! No non-emergency deploys starts the week of December 18th. [wiki][email]
- [MW Train] The post mortem for T181006 (Watchlist and RecentChanges failure due to ORES on frwiki and ruwiki) is scheduled for December 7th.
- #mw-1.30-release MediaWiki 1.30 is about to be released in the next few days, so last call for any blockers people might have...you know...forgotten
Last week edit
- Blocking
- Blocked
- [SSD] blocked on ops updating nodejs-devel base image: <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180524>
- Updates
- [MW Train] Reminder! This is your last few weeks of deployments for the year/quarter! No non-emergency deploys starts the week of December 18th. [wiki][email]
- [MW Train] The post mortem for T181006 (Watchlist and RecentChanges failure due to ORES on frwiki and ruwiki) is scheduled for December 7th.
- [Sunsetting WG] Meeting with Victoria and Toby tomorrow (Wednesday).
- [nodejs browser tests] CirrusSearch and Mobile are active with migrations.
- [nodejs browser tests] Investigation of using mwbot instead of nodemw (javascript api interfaces to MW). CirrusSearch uses mwbot. We use nodemw (maintained by a Wikia engineer).
- [ruby] We will upgrade rubocop (Ruby linter/static analyzer) across the corpus of extensions due to a security issue (pointed out by the new Github security issue notification service). We (WMF production and CI) are not affected by the issue AND we have officially deprecated our ruby browser test stack (where 99% of all rubocup uses/dependencies are) BUT we’ll do it :) [wiki][email]
- [techdebt] Wider conversations regarding SLAs/stewardship of components/software: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Development_policy/Code_Stewardship
- [techdebt] 2nd of the 3 tech debt series of blog posts (after the 0th introduction one on Code Health) is in drafting.
- [CI] We’ve migrated almost all of the tox (python) jobs to the new container based CI infra.
Puppet SWAT edit
- list of patches you want to submit to Puppet SWAT
Logspam \ Last week's train updates edit
- Krinkle sent this: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2017-December/000493.html
- thanks Krinkle :)
Other Team Business edit
- Team offsite:
- Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ku2-djYs11U1CAlkTZmdt0YUbZq82aakp-74D6Gdhv4/edit?
- Should look familiar :P
- Saturday logistics: we have vehicles
- topic generation: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-offsite-201801-topics
- Schedule: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ku2-djYs11U1CAlkTZmdt0YUbZq82aakp-74D6Gdhv4/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
Program 1: webdriver.io edit
- Jon's list https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Experiences_porting_Ruby_browser_tests_to_NodeJs
- TODO list at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139740
- update to recent version of webdriver.io
- video recordings
- cucumber support
- cleanup of some hardcoded urls
- composer support (instead of vendor)
- Jan is adding wdio/selenium tests to wikimedia/portals
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
Other edit
Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) = edit
- Progress so far:
- 4 closed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4lWgir9kgulF/#R
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126306 could probably be marked as resolved?
- 10 remain open: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/EMX2HewvHUAN/#R
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- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server edit
- chad point on this, bulk of time
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
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- T174591 Flow: Migrate browser tests from Ruby to node.js
- Deleting tests
- T174591 Flow: Migrate browser tests from Ruby to node.js
- T171848 Port Echo Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- Probably deleting tests too
- T171848 Port Echo Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- Selenium tests for wikimedia/portals/deploy!
- T181285 Replace jshint with eslint in nodemw
- Done. Merged upstream.
- T180144 Upgrade WebdriverIO to 4.9
- Found the upstream commit that broke our tests. Next step is reporting upstream.
Ruby edit
- T180878 Upgrade RuboCop and Rubyzip across the extension fleet
- In progress. A couple of repos already causing trouble. :|
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
- Continued discussion of what Stewardship means. Some of the feedback suggests that "stewardship" may be too soft of a word, perhaps "ownership" is better.
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
- Restarted clean-up/gap filling for developers/maintainers page.
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
- done
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
- Blog post 2 of 3 almost done.
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/
- npm is bologna
Quaterly non-goal "Work" edit
Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) edit
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- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
- DONE
- being generalized
- more infra work needed such as:
- gotta move toward kubernetes
- docker-pkg and work closely with SSD / ops
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit edit
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator edit
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server edit
Other work edit
- TestED
- Zeljko and JR are working to develope some testing education material primarily focused on helping developers test for effectively.
- Zeljko, Cormac, and JR are exploring ways to introduce TDD to WMF teams.
- General ED on TDD -> MediaWiki specific support (tech sessions)
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...