Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170807

2017-08-07 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

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 11-14: Chad maybe on vacation
  • Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
  • Aug 15th - WMF Monthly day off (random)
  • Aug 17th: Mukunda - court again
  • Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!
  • Sept 4 - Labor Day
  • Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day

Team Business edit

Rotating positions and absences edit

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 31 and Aug 7 edit

  • Train: Mukunda
  • 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 edit

  • Train: Tyler
    • wmf.14
      • Tuesday: Chad doing branch cut/group0
      • wed/thur: Tyler
    • wmf.15
  • SoS: Mukunda
  • Out:
    • August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
    • Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
    • Aug 15th - WMF Monthly day off
    • Aug 17th: Mukunda court :-/
    • Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!

Aug 28 and Sept 4 edit

Actions from last meeting edit

  • TODO: Greg email mark/faidon/moritz plan for week after wikimania
    • DONE

Scrum of Scrums edit

This week edit

REMINDER: We missed last week

  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates

Last week edit


Logspam \ Last week's train updates edit

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

Other Team Business edit

  • Security announce lists -> our team list?
    • see also: Jenkins Security advisory pre-announcement
    • If yes, which services?
      • Jenkins -   Done
      • kinda... the whitelisted jenkins-security@googlegroups email didn't send the actual advisory :(
      • Gerrit - no such list, wtf?
      • nodepool/zuul?
      • Phabricator (is there one?)
      • ???


Q1 goal/project check-in edit

Program 6: Streamlined service delivery edit

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 have registry creds/ops (joe) have pwstore access
  • meeting later today...

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290 edit

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) - Phabricator task number not specified edit

Non-Quarterly goal work edit

Quality edit

Quality improvements edit

  • Tech Debt
    • Created wiki page for Tech Tech Program
    • Need to break out some content an put in existing TD wiki page
  • Code Health
    • Created Code Health wiki page
    • Created Code Health Group wiki page
    • scheduled next CHG core meeting

Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff) edit

Phabricator edit

  • Phabricator is migrated to phab1001.eqiad.wmnet
  • Tested phab2001.codfw.wmnet - we are now very close to being ready for migration to Dallas
  • Found and fixed a bunch of stupid stuff in the process, hopefully we won't hit as many problems with codfw.
  • Phab email was down for quite a while. Daniel and I were up past midnight fixing things :-/


Gerrit edit

Nightlies server edit

Docker for CI edit

Misc CI edit

Grooming edit

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage edit


Once / month-ish review of backlog(s) edit


Kanban stats edit

Burnup chart