Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170717

2017-07-17

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• July 20: Mukunda court date for CNI ticket
• July 24: 1-2 days - Željko vacation
• July 28th: Greg vacation
• August 3-9: Željko vacation
• Aug 11-13: Chad maybe on vacation
• Some weeks in August: Antoine
• Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
• Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!

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

July 3 and July 10

• Train: Tyler
  • no wmf.8 train week of July 4th (tuesday)
  • wmf.9
    • Airport run tomorrow at 2:45pm -- surely train wil be done by then, right...RIGHT‽
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:
  • July 3+4: Greg (Vacation)
  • July 7th: Mukunda
  • July 10th-14th: Antoine (friend wedding iirc+ Bastille day)

July 17 and July 24

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.10
  • wmf.11
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • 1-2 days around July 24: Željko vacation

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Train update

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • 1.29-rc.1 is out, hopefully release out this week (Friday if nothing comes up)

Logspam

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

• LuaSandbox needs some love, it's spamming everywhere
• Some runjobs thing changed logging channels -- need to file meta task

Other Team Business

• Reminder on annual personal goals: see email

Q1 goal/project check-in

Program 6: Streamlined service delivery

Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions - task T170482

Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests - task T170483

last meeting

• security matrix: no comments
• ops to k8s 1.5+
• blubber patches

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• statsv seems ready, going to ask filippo about it next meeting
• remove a whole bunch of stuff from /srv/deployment -- task to be filed

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

• T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
  • Antoine helped with setting up a test job ( https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-core-qunit-selenium-337602-jessie/ )
  • I think the current failure is me messing up something in bash

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Code Health Group
  • Met with Google Code Health Group lead
  • Continued worked on Technical debt
  • Set up CHG meeting
• Test Strategy discussion with Quality Assurance SIG

Phabricator

• Upstream has converted secure.phabricator.com to invite only
  • https://discourse.phabricator-community.org/ is the only open access support site now.
• Paladox and I worked on download buttons for the new diffusion:
  • https://phab-01.wmflabs.org/diffusion/TS/

Docker for CI

• puppet patch to create docker hosts
  • will squash with Dan's patch today

Misc CI

• Jenkins security updates (Tyler)
• Nodepool patch to be deployed (for ssh host keys)
• OpenStack RabbitMQ crash (we got graphs now https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/labs-queue-server-rabbitmq )
• Support for R language (wikimedia/discovery/* repos)

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

• All Open
• Assigned
• Unassigned
• No update for 1 week
• No update for 2 weeks
• No update for 3 weeks
• No update for 4 weeks

Kanban stats

Burnup chart