Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160229
2016-02-29
editVacations/Important dates
editHow to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
- March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
- March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
- March 11th - Željko - probably working half day, traveling to a conference in the afternoon
- March 25th Friday - Tyler
- March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
- March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
- April 1st - Q4 goals published
- April - Antoine: holidays one of the two first weeks
- May 6th Friday - Antoine
- May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
- May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
- Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
- May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
- June (mid): Chad - EDC
- June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
- July 1st - Q1 goals published
- July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
- August: France holiday - because french. :)
- January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)
Team Business
editRotating positions
editTrain conductor
editWeek of ...
- Feb 29: Chad
- Mar 7: Mukunda
- Mar 14: Mukunda
- Mar 21: Tyler - Code freeze, due to the eqiad -> codfw switch over (announcement coming)`
- So we need to make sure Mar 14th week is super stable.
Scrum of Scrums representative
edit(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...
- Feb 29: Tyler
- Mar 7: Chad
- Mar 14: Chad
- Mar 21: Mukunda
= CI point person
edit- reassess later
Actions from last meeting
edit- TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
- Overdue
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
New vs Maint time spent
edit- Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0
- Lots of "Nonsense stuff" past few weeks...
Scrum of Scrums
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111259 closed
- Went under the radar. Turns out the root cause got fixed by @Maxsem in MediaWiki core a few days/weeks before ;-)
- Blocked on ops (sorta):
- Refactor phabricator module in puppet to remove git tag pinning behavior https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125851
- (resolved) scap::target should use scap's debian package instead of trebuchet https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127215
Other Team Business
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/1/ - if anyone feels like writing a blag about something.
Annual Planning
edit- Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
- Planning worksheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0
Q3 goal/project check-in
editReduce CI Wait time
edit- KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen
- Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138
- php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139
- as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140
- Migrate Jenkins to Jessie - task T124121
- mediawiki-core-npm migrated to mediawiki-core-npm-node4.3 (ie Nodepool)
- mediawiki services jobs being migrated. Mathoid pending on devs, Graphoid on some puppet work
- Nodepool needs a few cherry picks, hopefully this week
- Nodepool upgrade blocked on python-shade
Consolidate deploy tools
edit- Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313
- Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926
HTTP server tests for scap
- probably have a winner now
- smart git http server in python, forked and modified
- good performance over the other ones we tested
- https://github.com/thcipriani/gpack/pull/1 - lets get this repo into phabricator.
- Should we just merge it directly into scap? it's MIT licensed and very self-contained.
- Tyler: I'd vote merge into scap unless there are folks with specific objections
- Should we just merge it directly into scap? it's MIT licensed and very self-contained.
Updated package with bugfixes for AQS (permissions issues mostly)
- AQS is Done
- Marko was on vacation last week, will check in on what's next with him today
Working on a packaging pipeline with Antoine
- using Jenkins etc (http://jenkins-debian-glue.org/ shell wrappers around cowbuilder / git build-package ) + aptly for publishing
- working on setting up Beta to automatically deploy packages from a repo
Goal: make it reusable. Will be an intensive for ops to migrate the .deb repositories to Differential.
Differential Migration
edit- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
- Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31
- Shepherd the RFC - task T119908
- Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320
- Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")
Other Work
editBrowser tests cleanup of red tests
editGoing well, the red line is going down without decreasing the green line much, see https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/view/-Dashboard/ The creation of jobs is now configured in the repos themselves via a yaml file (!!!), mostly there
beta cluster
editClean up job queue (200k stall jobs) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128357 Maybe need a second jobrunner instance or run more jobs on the existing one