Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170605

2017-06-05

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• June 7: Chad
• June 8: Dan
• June 15: Željko local holiday (Corpus Christi)
• Maybe June 16: Željko vacation
• June 22: Željko local holiday (Day of Antifascist Struggle)
• June 26-July 4: Greg (Vacation)
• July 7th: Mukunda
• August 3-9: Željko vacation

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

June 5 and June 12

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.4
    • Wednesday June 7th: Mukunda standing in for Chad
  • wmf.5
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • June 7: Chad
  • June 15: Željko local holiday (Corpus Christi)

June 19 and June 26

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.6
  • wmf.7
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • June 22: Željko local holiday (Day of Antifascist Struggle)
  • June 26-July 4: Greg (Vacation)

July 3 and July 10

• Train: Tyler
  • no wmf.8 train week of July 4th (tuesday)
  • [ wmf.9]
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:
  • July 3+4: Greg (Vacation)
  • July 7th: Mukunda

Actions from last meeting

• TODO: Greg make a task about the branch cutting changes from offsite

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/
  • 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.
• Updates

Last 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

Logspam

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

Offsite Follow-ups / Report back

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

Other Team Business

• 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

• docker reg talking to integration project
  • building a post-merge job to pull from ci-staging register

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

• rewrote patch, now back up for review, we'll see

Release MediaWiki 1.29

A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271

• still some blockers, aaron is looking at things

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

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

Dan

Last week

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

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

• Out on Vacation returning Tuesday 6/5

This week

• Code Health Group Todos

Mukunda

Last week

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

Željko

Last 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

This week

• T162966 Figure out why browser tests can't create suggestion box
• 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