Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161219

2016-12-19

Vacations/Important dates

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

• Dec 21-Dec 26: Chad, Xmas, ugh
• Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for family events)
• Dec 23: tyler driving to Kansas \o/
• Dec 23: Greg, I need an extra day to prepare....
• December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
• December 26-30: XMas Holiday (All US Staff)
• January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
• January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
• January 9-11: Dev Summit
• January 11: Travelling to All Hands
• 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

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 50: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=2137582673

Rotating positions and absences

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

Dec 12 and Dec 19

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.6
  • no train/deploys week of Dec 19
• SoS: Chad
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/35
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/36 (Mukunda)
• Out:
  • none?

Dec 26 and Jan 2

• Train: Tyler
  • No train/deploys week of Dec 26
  • wmf.7
• SoS: Dan
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/37
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/38
• Out:
  • Week of Dec 26th: Everyone
  • Jan 2nd: New Year's Day observed

Actions from last meeting

• Greg: write the Q3 CI goal
  • DONE
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Planning
• Greg: Start conversation re Beta in prod and per-server rollouts
  • NOT DONE
  • Delegated to the scap3 crew

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
• Updates
  • Reminder no deploys until Jan 3rd: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Other Team Business

Volunteer deployers ?

• Add more Volunteers? Is there any specific policy. Directed one at Greg.
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#New_SWAT_Team_member_check-list
    • Need trust, technical endorsement (eg approve kabal of deployers). Directed to Greg for questions.

• Greg hasn't responded yet :/

QA Hire

• waiting waiting waiting

Q2 goal/project check-in

Future of CI plan

Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Planning
• Meeting with Chase (and Dan) re k8s
  • do a follow-up POC with k8s

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1)

Use a unified git repo for MW deploys

l10nupdate talk -- works again

Release MediaWiki 1.28

•  Done

Non-Quarterly goal work

Browser tests

• Testing webdriver.io and nightwatch.js - appying patches to mediawiki/core, testing if it works with our CI

Phabricator

• made some progress on search issues, however, it's still broken :-/

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

• EasyTimeline fix deployed. Have to double check then close task
• CI: inject skins as dependencies of MW extensions for selenium jobs
• Look Docker/k8s as time allow

Chad

Last week

• Sorting a few last gerrit things (submodules)
• Scap3 stuff

Dan

Last week

• Scap3 rollback refactoring
• K8s meeting with Chase and follow up experiments for CI PoC

This week

• Fixing my scap3 rollback patch
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D490
• K8s experimentation

Mukunda

Last week

• Deploying:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHDEPcf34cf262ed5a07adfe5643c315e94a8f6f9d825
    • This didn't happen - the train interfered
  • Mediawiki Train
• Maybe this week (if deployments don't eat up all the time)
  • fail over to phab2001
    • nope
  • reimage iridium to jessie, renamed to phab1001
    • nope

This week

• Continue testing and debugging phabricator search problems
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153603
• finish `scap branch`

Tyler

Last week

• Finish up scap mw quarterly goal things
• May actually get to ci-staging this week :)

This week

• find fix for git-fat
• finish up scap mw git-gc/kill links

Željko

Last week

• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
• T151442 Research webdriver.io
• T151443 Research nightwatchjs
• T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension
• T146916 RSpec tests for Echo Mention notification
• T153202 NameError: uninitialized constant MediawikiSelenium::RakeTask::Shellwords
• T1331 Remove lines from Gemfile that are used by RVM
• SWAT deploy
• QA hire

This week

• T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster
• T151442 Research webdriver.io
• T151443 Research nightwatchjs
• T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension