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2017-07-05

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • July 7th: Mukunda - 7s day RX7 event
  • July 10th-14th: Antoine (friend wedding iirc+ Bastille day)
  • 1-2 days around July 24: Željko vacation
  • August 3-9: Željko vacation
  • Some weeks in August: Antoine

Team Business

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Rotating positions and absences

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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 19 and June 26

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July 3 and July 10

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  • Train: Tyler
    • no wmf.8 train week of July 4th (tuesday)
    • wmf.9
  • SoS: Mukunda
  • Out:
    • July 3+4: Greg (Vacation)
    • July 7th: Mukunda
    • July 10th-14th: Antoine (friend wedding iirc+ Bastille day)

Actions from last meeting

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Scrum of Scrums

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


This week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates

Last week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates


Logspam

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

Other Team Business

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Q4 goal/project check-in

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

Streamlined Services Delivery

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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
  Done
generate or consume a docker file for building
  Done
build image, upload and tag it in docker registry
can upload to a registery, but not *the* registery due to credential issues, proposal made

Train 2.0

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Move MW+Extensions deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 3)
Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - task T104352
Not done (waiting on code review, should be done shortly after that)
Also let's land using canaries as proxies for proxies -- needs review, D636

Release MediaWiki 1.29

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A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271
DAMMIT I HATE MY LIFE.
New issues keep popping up in the release
Board of fun: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mw-1.29-release/
ACTION: status update email to wikitech-l


Q1 goal/project check-in

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Program 6: Streamlined service delivery

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Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions
Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests

[#streamined-service-delivery same update]

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290
  • Talked about this Monday
    • godog closed...something (we declined T129153?) yeah probably
    • statsv seems like the next thing

Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)

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  • T167502 Refactor webdriverio tests for mediawiki core so users and pages are created via the api
    • waiting for review(s) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/352567/ Create users and pages for Selenium tests using action API
    • Timo suggested using promises, could not make it work
    • Dan helped, still not working, implemented without promises
  • T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions

Non-Quarterly goal work

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Quality

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Quality improvements

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  • started working on possible improvements to Jenkin's messages to QA-List
  • Technical Debt definition work with Kevin
  • More work in the definition of the Code Health Group formation


Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff)

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Phabricator

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  • Not a lot happening in phab land other than fighting the morocan pirates
  • We've blocked some IP ranges
    • MaxSem wrote "Block WP Zero users from accessing Phabricator uploads" - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/363264/
    • Hopefully this will take away any incentive for uploading crap to phabricator. Time will tell. (when WPZero is your internet, WPZero becomes the internet)
  • Experimenting with due dates in phabricator tasks:

Gerrit

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  • Bacula backups starting soon
  • Gonna reattempt Logstash integration
  • Clean up systemd bullshit
  • Scap-based deploys being worked on

Nightlies server

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  • Surprisingly far along, releases1001 is running Jenkins, plus taking over releases.wm.o
  • Next step:
    • Finish moving off bromine [this week]
    • Apache config for jenkins
    • Setup our build jobs :D

Docker for CI

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Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

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Kanban stats

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Burnup chart
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