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2016-11-28 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

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

  • Nov 30: Tyler: eye appointment 1:45pm -- may be useless afterwords (antoine: eyes are definitely useful, keep them)
  • Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
  • December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
  • December 26-30: XMas Holiday
  • January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
  • January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
  • January 9-11: Dev Summit
  • January 12-13: All Hands
  • January 16: MLK Jr Day
  • February 20: President's Day
  • March 13: New day off for some reason
  • April 14: New day off for some reason

Team Business edit

Time spent spreadsheet edit

Rotating positions and absences edit

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

Nov 14 and Nov 21 edit

Nov 28 and Dec 5 edit

Dec 12 and Dec 19 edit

Dec 26 and Jan 2 edit

Actions from last meeting edit


Scrum of Scrums edit

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

This week edit

Last week edit

  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates
    • 1.28 this week!

Other Team Business edit

QA Hire edit

  • continuing to do HM screens
  • interviews ongoing with the rest of the loop


Q2 goal/project check-in edit

Future of CI plan edit

Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.
  • TODO today: Figure out how we want to describe this work in our quarterly goals
  • Things to remember/account for:
    • ci-staging
    • jenkins 2.0
    • migration to nodepool completion
    • de-experimenting (maybe?) the docker based system

(((Dan presented outcome of the Docker POC)))

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1) edit

Use a unified git repo for MW deploys edit

Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW edit

Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing edit

Release MediaWiki 1.28 edit

Non-Quarterly goal work edit

Browser tests edit

  • T117418 Ensure chromedriver is installed (for Selenium)
    • Chromedriver is installed on Jenkins slaves
    • Antoine will make sure it is in PATH

Ruby edit

Node.js edit

  • T150435 Selenium tests for VisualEditor in Node.js
    • pairing weekly with Rummana
  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
    • ported 6 very simple tests
    • will probably not create more tests, but improve existing ones
  • T151442 Research webdriver.io + T151443 Research nightwatchjs
    • Managed to get it working without Java (on Chrome)
    • Will test if it works with Firefox

Beta Cluster edit

Phabricator edit


DB Inconsistencies edit

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 edit

Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • (week-end project) ElasticSearch/Kibana on CI for build logs
    • POC done. TODO write about it somewhere.
  • Ploticus/EasyTimeline this weeek
    • skipped due toThanksgiving
  • Nodepool quota to be bumped early this week. Labs needed clarifications.
    • skipped due toThanksgiving
  • Clone mw/core for the job running against operations/mediawiki-config (for dcausse/Erik B)

This week edit

  • Nodepool quota to be bumped on Tuesday


Chad edit

Last week edit

  • 1.28!

This week edit

Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Continue hacking on proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
  • Improve scap target failure tolerance

This week edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

  • Continue working on phabricator privilege separation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146055
    • Done, for the most part
  • Help with scap release as needed
  • Scrum of scrums
  • eat food with family
  • sleep?
  • This took up a significant part of my weekend:
  • Fixed git mirroring errors that I discovered in phabricator's logs - a bunch of repos were deleted from gerrit but left enabled in phabricator.
    • The errors were causing a major slowdown in the queue which affected phabricator's git commit parsing.
    • Will significantly improve import latency.

This week edit

Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Line up next 2 scap releases
  • CI staging

This week edit

Željko edit

Last week edit

  • T108108 Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests
  • pairing with Rummana on Node.js+Selenium tests for VisualEditor
  • pairing with Elena on Ruby+Rspec tests for Echo API
  • Senior QA Analyst hiring

This week edit

  • T117418 Ensure chromedriver is installed (for Selenium)
  • New release of mediawiki_selenium
  • T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • T151442 Research webdriver.io
  • T151443 Research nightwatchjs
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