Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170327

2017-03-27

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• March 23-28: Chad in Miami, Florida
• March 30, 31: Tyler in Wichita, Kansas
• March 30-Apr 3: Greg in Berlin (Wikimedia Conference)
• April 10-13: Dan out
• April 14: Monthly day off
• May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
• May 19-21: EU Hackathon
• July 10th: Tyler doing things and stuff.

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 12: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=81808640

Rotating positions and absences

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

Mar 20 and Mar 27

• Train: Tyler (plus Chad for goup2 on March 30th)
  • wmf.17
  • wmf.18
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • March 23-28: Chad in Miami
  • March 30, 31: Tyler in Wichita
  • Thu March 30 - Mon Apr 3: Greg in Berlin (Wikimedia Conference)

Apr 3 and Apr 10

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.19
  • wmf.20
• SoS: JR
• Out:
  • April 10-17: Dan
  • April 14 (Friday): US Staff holiday

April 17 and Apr 24

• Train: Mukunda
  • [ wmf.21]
  • [ wmf.22]
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:

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

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates

Other Team Business

Keyholder blogpost

• https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/22/keyholder/ !

Logspam

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

• elukey is looking into redis timeouts (yay!)

Annual Planning

• calm before storm

Q4 Goals

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q4
• CI: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1617q4-ci

Q3 goal/project check-in

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)

Build fanout support in scap3

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D605
• reach out to Ops about rollout/rollback strategy

Phabricator

• 2 patches landed upstream!
  • https://secure.phabricator.com/D17300
  • https://secure.phabricator.com/D17384
• Unfortunately, epriestley came up with a laundry list of little issues to solve:
  • https://secure.phabricator.com/T12450

Non-Quarterly goal work

Browser tests

• T160086 Upgrade Cucumber from version 1 to version 3
  • Almost done.
  • Paused until Selenium+Node.js is documented and announced

• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • WebdriverIO patch is now in mediawiki/core!
  • Workiing on the announcement https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wdio
  • Patches for removing Ruby code and Jenkins jobs are in gerrit => waiting for Node.js jobs being deployed => waiting for CI to be ready for more jobs

• T161103 Write documentation on Selenium tests in Node.js
  • Split the old https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium page into Ruby and Node.js pages
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Node.js
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Ruby
  • Documenting Selenium/Node.js

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• have read doc about systemd-nspawn and capabilities(7) => scary stuff
• Little Steps Sprint also clear out some legacy cruft from JJB config
  • Some kind of progress. 3 repos have priorirty. Bunch of legacy stuff moved out
  • tasks filled to merge some jobs #together
• Clear out puppet from Precise references (eg mediawiki)
  • Mostly done, one puppet patch left
• contint2001 again
• some rspec hack for Traffic team / DNS testing
  • Completed on Saturday: generate gdnsd config files from puppet - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343747/
• few prod hotfixes

This week

• Little Steps Sprint
• CPU usage on beta cluster Swift backend servers
• Basic support for Moritz upgrade of HHVM from 3.12 to 3.18
• gdnsd config files from puppet - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343747/
• merge some jobs

Chad

Last week

• Scap scap scap
• Vacation starting thursday

Dan

Last week

• There's a k8s cluster running in ci-staging!

This week

• Brain dump the k8s cluster stuff and start working on Build PoC
  • Assess existing docker-based builds as a jumping off point

JR

Last week

• quality Interviews
  • write up summary of findings so far
    • Need to clean up what I wrote and will share
• CI knowledge building
• bug/defect data wrangling
  • Build queries for PH

This week

• quality interview
  • polish up report out and schedule some time to discuss
• bug/defect data wrangling
• test results data wrangling

Mukunda

Last week

• Phabricator es5 switchover
• Still trying to get elasticsearch changes merged upstream (now split into two patches)
  • https://secure.phabricator.com/D17384
  • https://secure.phabricator.com/D17509

This week

• Work on further issues with phab search, hopefully making a few more improvements
  • tracked upstream https://secure.phabricator.com/T12450

Tyler

Last week

• Fanout
• train

This week

• Train
• CI goal peacemaking
• Wichita

Željko

Last week

• T160086 Upgrade Cucumber from version 1 to version 3
• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
• T161103 Write documentation on Selenium tests in Node.js
• T161127 Error: Could not apply complete catalog: Found 1 dependency cycle

This week

• T161103 Write documentation on Selenium tests in Node.js
• T150435 Selenium tests for VisualEditor in Node.js
• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js