Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160606

2016-06-06

Vacations/Important dates

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

• Greg's parental leave plan, visually: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YVRFSmu_pt0d72JnlRZJeasPHHDAOp1Yir_eTSQU_xQ/edit
• June 15-24: Chad - Vegas
• June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy (Zeljko)
• July 1st - Q1 goals published
• July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
• August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
• August 1st - 5th: Mukunda - vacation: Concert & relaxation
• August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
• January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

Rotating positions

Train conductor

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

(tracks who did it) neat.

Week of ...

• May 30th: Tyler.
• June 6th: 1.28.0-wmf.5 Tyler.
• June 13th: 1.28.0-wmf.6 Chad'll do Tuesday, Antoine Wed/Thurs
• June 20th: 1.28.0-wmf.7 Antoine-only.

Scrum of Scrums representative

(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda

Week of ...

• May 30: Chad
• June 6: Chad
• June 13: Mukunda
• June 20: Mukunda

CI point person

placeholder for updates

• Upgrade of zuul fixed the loop of death issue (unknown repository)
  • Done. Was https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128569

Time spent spreadsheet

• Q4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SjLoTALS4_DA77M-F-gLbIFIai5b8pXkPO7AgR303FI/edit

Actions from last meeting

• ACTION: Greg to create Doodle or something timing of the offsite

Scrum of Scrums

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

• Blocked on:
  • AuthManager....
• Blocking:
  • nothing
• Updates:
  • REMINDER! Migrate your things to scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1824/
    • What have you touched? Please migrate! :)
  • Phabricator update going out this week (was postponed): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135068

Other Team Business

• Personal annual goals (due 7/1)
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134517

• can we find a set of things that a contractor would be a useful investment in?
  • calendar stuffs for code-review/deployments/etc???

• Team Offsite location
  • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_8KXdObI8tw033n4L245KoE1izgsdxp3h0BnZwGqk4s/edit#gid=0
  • ACTION: Greg to create doodle or something timing of the offsite

Q4 goal/project check-in

Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Train2.0

Migrate remaining services to scap3

Services Team owned services and MW - task T109926

All other services - task T129290

• "about half?" :) above 30 below 50
  • 45% (22 of 49) currently (have patches, are done, are deprecated/invalid or have owners)
• The ones that don't have owners: releng will just do it
• Canary deploys for MW moving forward (in response to https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160601-MediaWiki )

Differential Migration

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration

All tasks tagged for this quarter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/query/dNy2.aRJEM82/

Initial documentation of example Differential workflows (with Gerrit equivalents) - task T117058

Phase 1 repository migration - task T130418

Migrate wikimedia-iegreview to Differential - task T132174

Migrate wikimedia-wikimania-scholarships to Differential - task T132173

Spec out needed glue for Differential to Gearman to Nodepool - task T130949

looks like this isn't needed, we can use the rest api.

Most/All of the jenkins jobs are unfortunately zuul-specific. I'm trying to fabricate the ZUUL_* parameters well enough to make them work.

Almost works: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Default/job/tox-jessie/8466/

Determine method of getting changes (diffs) to the nodepool instances - task T131378

Cross-repository gating of changes pre-merge in Differential - task T131955

• CI status:
  • Jobs are running in Nodepool, which is \o/ Mukunda found a plugin that put slaves offline automagically which was a blocker
  • The Jenkins job is less than ideal, need to clean it up and into JJB
  • Arcanist testing engine using tox POC in progress, can later add npm/rake etc
  • I'm shooting for having consistency between the jobs we run with phabricator and gerrit so that a hypothetical migration would be seamless for developers

End_to_End_test_language_expansion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/End_to_End_test_language_expansion

Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. - task T108874

Prototype new JS framework. - task T131121

Send out user satisfaction survey. - task T131123

• Zeljko learning JS :)
• Z contacted a couple JS community members (Stephan and Ed S) to help/pair on using malu
• survey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131123

Non-Quarterly goal work

CI Scaling/Nodepool

• Qunit jobs migrated to Nodepool

• Next:
  • Selenium ones triggering on commit
  • MediaWiki PHPUnit leftover jobs

phase out gallium

• Need a target architecture https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133300
  • Antoine to sync with Faidon about a .plan
  • Basicall split doc hosting / zuul / jenkins to three different boxes
  • Might end up setting up everything (but doc) on labs instances

People status updates

Chad

GIVE HIM ROOT Done?

No, lol. But probably won't ever happen.

Mukunda

• starting next week, I'm planning to try using a milestone for phabricator release tracking instead of a tracking task:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2020/
  • working on a script to generate the milestones with all the pertinent details pre-filled