Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170731

2017-08-01

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• August 3-9: Željko vacation
• August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
• August 8-15: Greg @ Wikimania&Tech-mgrs F2F
• August 9-13: Wikimania
• Aug 9-13: Dan on vacation
• Aug 11-13: Chad maybe on vacation
• Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
• Aug 17th: Mukunda - court again
• 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 17 and July 24

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.10
  • wmf.11
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • July 28th: Greg vacation

July 31 and Aug 7

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.12
  • wmf.13
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • August 3-9: Željko vacation
  • August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
  • August 8-15: Greg @ Wikimania&Tech-mgrs F2F
  • August 9-13: Wikimania
  • Aug 10-13: Dan on vacation
  • Aug 11-13: Chad maybe on vacation

Aug 14 and Aug 21

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.14
  • wmf.15
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:
  • August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
  • Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
  • Aug 17th: Mukunda court :-/
  • Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!

Actions from last meeting

• Tyler: Some runjobs thing changed logging channels -- need to file meta task
  • N Not done needs some investigation still :|

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Need feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3482379 from Ops
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
  • None
• Blocked
• Updates

Logspam

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

Other Team Business

• Reminder on annual personal goals: see email

• Deployment process improvements:
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=1765924&oldid=1765923
• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Holding_the_train

• Jenkins: Assert no PHP errors (notices, warnings) were raised or exceptions were thrown
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50002
  • "OK. mw-error.log and mw-exception.log are empty again for phpunit and qunit jobs. Let's stay on top of this and enforce it soon? (@hashar, @greg)"
  • STATUS: Antoine will enable before vacation (Friday)

• Releng Secrets repo
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/releng-secrets/

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

• We had a cross-team check-in last week
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Streamlined-Service-Delivery-planning
  • (TODO: GREG archive this!)
• Dan's doing cool stuff (helm), Tyler isn't doing cool stuff

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• Working on documentation on wikitech
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap
  • next is: how to setup a new service to deploy, two parts, one for devs and one for ops

• Cassandra metrics + logstash logback encoder
  • both have patches for puppet and scap repos, +1 from me (thcipriani)
• jobrunner https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148
  • I have a Plan™
  • I want feedback tho

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

• T171847 Create Jenkins job that runs RelatedArticles Selenium tests daily
• T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
  • After Wikimania
• T171848 Port Echo Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • Done (from #releng standpoint).

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Tech Debt
  • Continued to develop our Tech Debt process/program
  • Meeting with Kevin this week to flush out the program
• Code Health
  • Pulled together base content for Wiki
  • Creating wiki this week
  • Working on Tech Blog Poat

Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff)

• T167432 Run Wikibase daily browser tests on Jenkins
• T164479 For MediaWiki extensions, merge rubocop inside mwext-mw-selenium-jessie
• T171753 Create a Jenkins job that runs Echo RSpec tests daily

Phabricator

• Working on using phurl to create a remarkup tag like ((mw-1.30.0-wmf.13)) which will link to the corresponding deployment blocker task
• Working with dzahn on phab1001 migration

Misc CI

• tox 2.5.0 / npm 3.x upgrades (Tuesday)
• assert mediawiki logs are empty

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
• closed and touched in the 7 days

Kanban stats

Burnup chart