Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170531

2017-05-31

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• June 7: Chad
• June 15: Željko local holiday (Corpus Christi)
• June 22: Željko local holiday (Day of Antifascist Struggle)
• June 26-30: Greg (Vacation)
• July 7th: Mukunda

Team Business

Rotating positions and absences

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R

May 15 and May 22 and May 29

• Train: Tyler
  • week of 15th: team offsite, no train
  • wmf.2
  • wmf.2 redux
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:
  • May 16-18: Mukunda vacation time?

June 5 and June 12

• Train: Chad
  • [ wmf.3]
    • Wednesday June 7th: Mukunda standing in for Chad
  • [ wmf.4]
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • June 7: Chad

June 19 and June 26

• Train: Mukunda
  • [ wmf.5]
  • [ wmf.6]
• SoS: Chad
• 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
  • MW 1.29 Release blocked on the tasks in: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2400/
    • Lots to do with JobQueue and the Database
• Updates
  • WARNING: Ops will be removing Salt near the end of next quarter, that means no more Trebuchet as well. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290#3245438 for a list of things still needing migration to scap3.
  • wmf.2 train issues, if you've committed something recently that may affect performance, you maybe did affect performance: please check :) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166345

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates

Logspam

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

Offsite Follow-ups / Report back

• Writeup/notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Offsites/2017-05-Vienna
• TODOS: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Offsites/2017-05-Vienna#Post_offsite_TODOs
• Kanban :)

Other Team Business

• Wikimania attendance ?

• Annual reviews: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2016-17_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective

Q4 goal/project check-in

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q4

Streamlined Services Delivery

Build a runnable image from tested and confirmed code that is suitable for promotion.

define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container

generate or consume a docker file for building

build image, upload and tag it in docker registry

• Ops is setting up new k8s boxes
• Joe is working on node base containers
• Tyler is working on making the ci-registery avail publicly
• Dan is working on boolean value merges

Train 2.0

Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 3)

Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - task T104352

• clarified misunderstandings with Ops

Release MediaWiki 1.29

A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Browser tests

• cleaned up Browser-Tests-Infrastructure Workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/browser-tests-infrastructure/
  • left a few comments asking if old tasks could be closed
• T162966 Figure out why browser tests can't create suggestion box
  • Seriously slowed down by T166662 Can not provision cirrussearch role
• T164479 For MediaWiki extensions, merge rubocop inside mwext-mw-selenium-jessie
  • Started cleaning up Ruby jobs
• T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
  • Started cleaning up node jobs
• T162454 LanguageScreenshotBot trying to edit a non-existent page without signing in
  • Taking screenshots works fine, there is a problem with uploading files, investigating

Phabricator

• Still working on moving to multi-datacenter, specifically: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164810
• Support Commons video embedding in remarkup. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D671

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/2769/

Dan

Last week

• Test Docker 17.05 w/ Blubber for Mathoid

This week

• Blubber variant merge fix https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166353
• Looking at Blubber for outputing k8s config for re-deploying new image locally

JR

Last week

• Data collection/visualization

Mukunda

Last week

Train: 1.,30.0-wmf.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162954 Still need to merge - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/345618/

This week

• Still working on phabricator multi-datacenter stuff.
• Deploying phabricator changes from upstream

Tyler

Last week

• Deploy gate and submit pipeline: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/351131/
• JJB Pipeline initial work for Mathoid (using https://github.com/wikimedia/node-service-builder )

Željko

Last week

• T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
• T164004 Delete Ruby+Selenium Jenkins jobs
• T162454 LanguageScreenshotBot trying to edit a non-existent page without signing in

This week

• cleaned up Browser-Tests-Infrastructure Workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/browser-tests-infrastructure/
• T162966 Figure out why browser tests can't create suggestion box
• T166662 Can not provision cirrussearch role
• T164479 For MediaWiki extensions, merge rubocop inside mwext-mw-selenium-jessie
• T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
• T162454 LanguageScreenshotBot trying to edit a non-existent page without signing in