Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161003

2016-10-03

Vacations/Important dates

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

• Oct 05: Morning, few hours, airport run - Tyler
• October 10: US Holiday (Indigenous People's Day https://theintercept.com/2015/10/12/columbus-day-is-the-most-important-day-of-every-year/ )
• October 17-21: Offsite in Washington D.C.
• October 31 & November 4th: Mukunda
• October 28 - Nov 2 (ish) - Chad (vacation to Cabo)
• November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
• November 24: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
• January 9-11: Dev Summit
• January 12-13: All Hands

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• Week 39 - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IrwGPdTDZ6H8x9Mf5dmCYlkK4hZ8sbUSLODEM4cFc4g/edit#gid=624220644
  • last o' the quarter! :)

Rotating positions and absences

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

weeks of Oct 03 and Oct 10

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.21
  • wmf.22
• SoS: Chad
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/25
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/26
• Out:
  • October 10: US Holiday (Indigenous People's Day)

Oct 17 and Oct 24

• Train: Chad
  • no train week of Oct 17
  • [ wmf.23]
• SoS: Tyler
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/27
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/28

Actions from last meeting

• TODO: Antoine write a migration plan for gallium
  • lIn my head only. Been busy with wmf.19 explosion / random Zend 5.5 segfault etc.
    • Still to do, went syphoned in jobrunner issue / lack of monitoring / bunch of reviews etc
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOcXkQA9gJaLAeyA6pePUJPZmV62RFU3KapGg8LCJ_A/edit
  • Do this week
• TODO: Talk about release process/strategy first week of Q2 (Oct 3) with Ops (Brandon)
  • GREG: Need to schedule
• Greg: explore with Andrew/Daniel/Someone after our team meeting(s) on Monday to sync up with what we need from Ops

Scrum of Scrums

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

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

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Migration of gallium to contint1001
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/309299/2
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313579/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313581/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/293300/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313599/
    • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/313600/
    • Also need an opsen on-hand for the actual migration
• Updates
  • Phabricator
    • Phabricator deployment this Thursday 1:00 AM UTC
    • Phabricator database maintenance this week. Time TBA

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • New scap (3.3.0)
    • scap caches local config for it's deployment (machines don't have to reach back to tin)

Other Team Business

• Contint root proposal
  • Can we just have an ops person?
  • Proposal: have a short 20 minute meeting with Andrew/Daniel/Someone after our team meeting(s) on Monday to sync up with what we need from Ops

• QA Hire:
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PpKPIv9B6bweXU7OQcBYo_s_mJfg75yxucuK_ln2uRg/edit#

Offsite

• Agenda being drafted at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmxtQkAuDJY4Vv8oFWihSmhz1y-JgUzsb11ebFCOz6g/edit#

Q1 goal/project check-in

Phase out Ubuntu Precise

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

• not completed
• lining up needs to do migration now
• Design: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOcXkQA9gJaLAeyA6pePUJPZmV62RFU3KapGg8LCJ_A/edit

Upgrade Phabricator database servers to Maria10/Jessie - task T138460

•  Done

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

•  Done
• just gotta drop/delete the instances

Move Gerrit off of ytterbium - task T125018

•  Done

Reduce Technical Debt

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

•  Done

Streamline deployments (long-lived branches)

keyresult task:

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

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

• `scap swat` likely to merge soon

Non-Quarterly goal work

Browser tests

• Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests T108108
  • Working on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Ruby
  • Code hosted on Github and tested on Travis CI https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/selenium-mediawiki
  • After Ruby docs are done, next is Node+Selenium documentation

Phabricator

• Deployment didn't happen last week so there are quite a few changes waiting for deploy this week.
• Database maintenance with jcrespo coming sometime this week, time TBA

DB Inconsistencies

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• Gallium migration plan

Mukunda

Last week

• Finish getting scap swat and cli stuff merged
  • Cli part merged, still need scap swat merged
• Talk with Greg about the automation of deployment blockers, release milestones/tasks, etc.
  • Started working on tooling for managing the deployment blockers task series
  • Created a recurring event for mediawiki 1.28: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E309

This week

• Hopefully get +2 on scap swat
• Continue working on deployment blockers and related automation
• Start working on Q2 goals

Tyler

Last week

•  Done fixup https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310719/
• scap3 catchup/review

This week

• Puppet patches for scap deploy-local change https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146602
• 1.28.0-wmf.21
• Help w/Gallium migration where possible

Željko

Last week

• Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests T108108
  • Working on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Ruby
  • Code hosted on Github and tested on Travis CI https://github.com/zeljkofilipin/selenium-mediawiki
  • After Ruby docs are done, next is Node+Selenium documentation

This week

• mediawiki_selenium feature to show/capture Selenium WebDriver requests to remote browser T94577
• Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests T108108
• EU SWAT