Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170823

2017-08-23

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
• September 1 - Željko on a conference
• Sept 4 - Labor Day
• Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day

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

Aug 14 and Aug 21

• 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 21st - Greg half day (eclipse!)

Aug 28 and Sept 4

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.16
  • wmf.17
• SoS: Tyler
• Out
  • September 1 - Željko on a conference
  • Sept 4 - Labor Day

Sep 11 and Sept 18

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.18
  • wmf.19
• SoS: Chad
• Out

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Last projects moving to scap3
    • Niharika/community tech at SoS/there are patches, just no deployment window scheduled
      • iegreview
      • scholarships
    • No idea about
      • ocg
      • dropwizard metrics(???) - Speak up now or forever hold your peace (we'll delete it)
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Last projects moving to scap3
    • Niharika/community tech at SoS/there are patches, just no deployment window scheduled
      • iegreview
      • scholarships
    • No idea about
      • ocg
      • dropwizard metrics(???) - Speak up now or forever hold your peace (we'll delete it)
• Updates

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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

• really crappy situation last week
  • jaime: needed to roll forward because we were losing like 90% of edits or so
    • thankfully aaron was super available for that
  • but we had possible rollback issue after rolling forward, had to fix forward :/
  • TODO: incident report.
    • Tyler: outline of it/start it, hand off to jaime/aaron/ladsgroup

Other Team Business

• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170721-Train-Wikidata

• Explicitness re conductor roles and blocking tasks
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments%2FHolding_the_train&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=1768185&oldid=1767105
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team%2FRoles&type=revision&diff=2539163&oldid=2480097

• Do the inclusion survey
  • see wmfall 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

Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• dropwizard/metrics: closed invalid
• ocg: I guess we should migrate it?
• jobrunner: still in progress, need to sync with alex k

Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) - task T139740

• T171847 Create Jenkins job that runs RelatedArticles Selenium tests daily
  • Done. Deployed, running, green: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/selenium-RelatedArticles-jessie/
  • Waiting for review, no rush, probably when Antoine gets back: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/373278/

• T164024 Rewrite Related pages browser tests in Node.js
  • Resolved by the previous task.

• T173488 Announce Selenium Ruby framework deprecation on appropriate mailing lists (QA, engineering, wikitech-l)
  • Ready. This week? Next week? Now?

• T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
  • Waiting for Rachel to set a date. Pinged the task now.

• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • Current estimate: should be resolved by the end of October.

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Technical Debt
  • Developing communication campaign to roll out starting next week
  • started reviewing existing technical debt
  • 18 interested in TD SIG meetings.

Phabricator

Nothing exciting in Phabricator world right now.

Grooming

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

• closed and touched in the 7 days
• No update for 4 weeks
• No update for 3 weeks
• No update for 2 weeks
• No update for 1 week
• All Open
• Review To Triage column of #releng

• Assigned
• Unassigned

Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

• releng Review To Triage column of #releng
• releng-kanban Review unassigned in kanban
• releng-kanban Review 'backlog' colum of -kanban
• releng-next - Review for things we need to put on our kanban backlog
• releng-backlog - oh my, the huge backlog of things...

Kanban stats

Burnup chart