Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180423
2018-04-23 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- May 1: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day), Antoine ditto
- May 7-11: Antoine, too many holidays in France that week
- May 7-14: Dan (Barcelona)
- May 10-14: Chad (family time)
- May 15-17: Team offsite in Barcelona
- May 18-21: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
- May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
- May 28 (Mon): Memorial Day (US Holiday)
- May 31: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)
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
- Feb 19 - wmf.22 - Mukunda
- Feb 26 - wmf.23 - Tyler
- Mar 05 - wmf.24 - Tyler
- Mar 12 - wmf.25 - Chad
- Mar 19 - wmf.26 - Chad
- Mar 26 - wmf.27 - Mukunda
- Apr 02 - wmf.28 - Mukunda
- Apr 09 - wmf.29 - Tyler
- Apr 16 - wmf.30 - Tyler
- Apr 23 - 1.32.0-wmf.1 - Chad <----
- Apr 30 - wmf.2 - Chad
- May 07 - wmf.3 - Mukunda
- May 14 - wmf.4 - Mukunda
SoS edit
- Feb 19 - Chad
- Feb 26 - Mukunda
- Mar 05 - Mukunda
- Mar 12 - Tyler
- Mar 19 - Tyler
- Mar 26 - Chad
- Apr 02 - Chad
- Apr 09 - Mukunda
- Apr 16 - Mukunda
- Apr 23 - Tyler <----
- Apr 30 - Tyler
Team Business edit
Updates edit
- Rando: https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- bryan made it clear when there's oddity in the group versions
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
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- HEADS UP: localization update rebuilds are taking a long time during full scaps. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191921
Last week edit
Release Engineering edit
- Blocking
- Working on Scap 3.8.0 release to unblock ores git-lfs deployments.
- Blocked
- Updates
- Deadlines in phabricator are now visible on workboards.
Train status and happenings edit
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 Q4 edit
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- Migrate away from Nodepool - task T190097
- Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Add Python/Tox support to Blubber - task T186545
- Add Ruby/Gem/Bundler/Rake support to Blubber - task T188950
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans edit
- Broad role out of Code Stewardship model.
- Update Maintainers/Developers page with currently known Code Stewards.
- Use Code Stewardship review process to address gaps.
- Deploy dashboard of Code Stewardship Coverage
- worked on defining code stewardship metrics
Program 3: Outcome2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation edit
- Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches.
- Identify early adopter engineering teams to test approaches.
- no activity
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers edit
- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Small, standalone, MediaWiki containers built using Blubber
- Limited scope with: Debian Stretch, php7, composer dependencies, Mariadb, Apache (or last two with standalone containers)
- Build MW base containers upon branch cut at master branch point from core
- Build ext specific containers using MW image as base
Quaterly non-goal "Work" edit
Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) edit
- Scap 3.8.0 released
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Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit edit
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator edit
- Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
- Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085
- Made some pretty good progress on swift (git-lfs) support in phabricator
Other work edit
Standup! edit
Antoine edit
- What I plan to do this week
- Quibble on mediawiki skins
- Address reported issues (fails with Ubuntu mysql version)
- Switch quibble to use 'npm run selenium' entry point
- What I'm blocked on
- Have to write doc
- Late on Zuul super user story
- Other?
Chad edit
- What I plan to do this week
- Train
- MW 1.31.0-rc.0
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan edit
- What I plan to do this week (arc tasks)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188935 modify service-pipeline to include helm install/helm test Normal Open
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191327 Come up with a decent method of declaring helm chart path/version in service repo Normal Open
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg edit
- What I plan to do this week
- Staging? huh?
- Stewardship follow-up
- SWAT changes... (kick me if you don't hear anything)
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene edit
- What I plan to do this week
- code stewardship metrics
- identify first group of teams to engage with for tech debt process
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda edit
- What I plan to do this week
- Finish the swift plugin for Phabricator
- scap + git-lfs production testing with ores
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler edit
- What I plan to do this week
- Finish wmf.30
- Get some review for pipeline puppetization https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/428010/
- Finish verification of pipeline
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko edit
- What I plan to do this week
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
- T191537 MediaWiki core's selenium tests flaky when run as part of mwext-mw-selenium-node-composer-jessie job
- What I'm blocked on
- 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...