Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160801

2016-08-01

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Vacations/Important dates

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

  • July 25 - August 15: Željko vacation. Will have laptop with me. Reachable via phone.
  • July 30 - August 21: Antoine vacation. At home 1st week.
  • August 1st - 5th: Mukunda - vacation: Concert & relaxation

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  • January 9-11: Dev Summit
  • January 12-13: All Hands

Team Business

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Rotating positions and absences

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


weeks of July 25 and Aug 1

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weeks of Aug 8 and Aug 15

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weeks of Aug 22 and Aug 29

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Time spent spreadsheet

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Actions from last meeting

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Scrum of Scrums

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R


This week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates


Last week

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Blocking

  • Blocked
    • None
  • Updates

Other Team Business

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Offsite

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  • vote!


Q1 goal/project check-in

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Phase out Ubuntu Precise

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Replace primary production Continuous Integration host (gallium) - task T95757

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  • NEXT: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139771 - "Identify metric (or metrics) that gives a useful indication of user-perceived (Wikimedia developer) service of CI"
  • Tyler reply to Faidon's comment, keeping focused on getting off of gallium for now

Upgrade Phabricator database servers to Maria10/Jessie - task T138460

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  •   Done

Upgrade Beta Cluster database servers to Maria10/Jessie - task T138778

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  • waiting on Jaime to priority
    • Priority is "this quarter" (not "this month" or "next week")
  • up to us to schedule, should be no more than an hour for Jaime
  • NEXT: Needs an owner
    • DAN!

Move Gerrit off of ytterbium

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  • Done!

Reduce Technical Debt

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Perform a technical debt analysis of software and services maintained by WMF Release Engineering - task T138225

  • Next steps?
    • Fill out Redux Redux (THIS WEEK - week of Aug 1)
    • Based on Redux Redux identify the one thing to focus on (NEXT WEEK - week of Aug 8)
    • then plan accordingly in Phabricator


Streamline deployments (long-lived branches)

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keyresult task:

  • Convert our production deployment strategy to use long-lived branches - task T89945

project view: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2117/


Non-Quarterly goal work

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SWAT deploy changes

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  • European SWAT deploys next steps (task T137970
    • NEXT: stalled pending finding people to do the SWAT window while Antoine and Zeljko are on vacation
  • Week of 20th August lets gogogo

CI Scaling/Nodepool

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Browser tests

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Differential migration

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Differential weekly (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly ) TODOs:


Beta Cluster

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Other

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  • New scap release this week
    • user autocompletion
    • canary deploys with it
    • email tbc


People status updates

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • Zuul upgrade to latest upstream
  • Zuul packaging doc
  • Vacations backup plan

This week

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  • Vacation


Chad

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Last week

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  • Gerrit. Remove precise remnants from puppet, tune cache stuff, CSS tweaks for crap UI. Triaging old bugs to see which are fixed / invalid / still fixable.
  • DB consistencies thingie for Jaime. I owe him one.

This week

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  • Gerrit 2.12.3 (trivial, only a minute or two of downtime)
  • DB consistencies ....

Last week

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Mukunda

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Last week

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This week

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  • Vacation


Tyler

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Last week

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  • MW Canary work


This week

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  • Puppet work for deployment hosts
  • New scap release stuffs
  • train

Željko

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Last week

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  • Vacation

This week

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  • Vacation