Quality Assurance SIG/20171215

2017-12-15

Attendees: Elena, Anthony, JR, Erik

Elena:

• Last deploy this week - caught a last minute bug.
• Talked a bit about the cherry pick process in swat

Anthony:

• Mostly business as usual
• Changes in print styles (PDFs of our articles)
• Apps are doing good. Isn't finding as many bugs in Android as in iOS
  • No real reason and not significantly different
• Multimedia is progressing well.

JR:

• ORES Post Mortem - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171120-Ext:ORES
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171120-Ext:ORES/minutes
  • If given a heads-up, Elena is able and willing to review ORES-Ext
  • Elena: Those that deploy should provide feedback on how to make deployments easier/better.
  • Elena will review the docs an provide any additional input.

Erik:

• Migration from Ruby to NodeJS
  • Took a lot of work from multiple people to transition from Ruby vs NodeJS
  • Intermitten failures have increased
  • Sharing states is diffiuclt with NodeJS implementation. Needed to create another process to track states.
  • Use code retouines or the latest version of NodeJS.
  • Still using cucumber, that seemed to transition pretty well.
  • 2 months at 40-60% of 2 engineers.
• Roled out machine learned ranking model.
  • Rolled out to more Wikis this month