Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170828

2017-08-28

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• September 1 - Željko on a conference
• Sep 1 - Antoine
• 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: Antoine 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 1 - Antoine
  • Sept 4 - Labor Day

Sep 11 and Sept 18

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

Actions from last meeting

• TODO: incident report for last week's crappy "can't roll forward, can't rollback" situation
  • Tyler: outline of it/start it, hand off to jaime/aaron/ladsgroup N Not done

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Selenium Ruby framework deprecation announce: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088653.html
    • End of October deprecation date.

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

looks cleanish \o/

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/

• waiting on reviews from Tyler :)
  • Assuming good and moving ahead
• Moritz approved/made the LDAP group, now unblocked there
• pairing!

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• working on jobrunner+masking
• ping niharika on iegreview and scholarships

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

• CentralAuth (T173989) and MinervaNeue (T174018) are are set up
  • More repos on the way
• T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
  • Rachel not replying, probably traveling

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Tech Debt
  • continued reviewing and engaging on existing TD tasks
  • TD Blog posts
• Post Mortems
  • Scheduled Post Mortem - T173462: Cannot flush pre-lock snapshot because writes are pending (subsequently cancelled to have Megan schedule)

Phabricator

• Migration to dallas still stalled.
• Translating phabricator saw some activity
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225
  • I created a repo for i18n stuff and gave nikerabbit access.
• Phabricator Deployment
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172847
  • Submitted patch for ops/puppet, hope to get it merged sometime this century.
• SWAT stuff:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114488
  • It's been proposed to use Phabricator calendar events for organizing the SWAT patches. I think it's the way to go and it's worked well for "code review office hours" which follows a vaguely similar format. Need to get input from some SWAT deployers about it.

Docker for CI

• Puppet role got merged. 4 Docker hosts available

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