Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170918

2017-09-18

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
• Sept 21: Antoine paperwork, but mostly working as usual
• Sept 29: Antoine, conference
• October 6 (Friday): Željko on a conference
• October 4-10th: vacation all I ever wanted
• Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day
• November 1 (Wednesday): Željko local holiday (All Saints' Day)
• Nov 10 (Fri) - Veteran's Day
• Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
• Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
• Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays

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

Sep 11 and Sept 18

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

Sep 25 and Oct 2

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.1
  • wmf.2
• SoS: Tyler
• Out
  • Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
  • Sept 21: Antoine paperwork, but mostly working as usual
  • Sept 29: Antoine, conference
  • October 4-10th: vacation all I ever wanted

Oct 9 and Oct 16

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.3
  • wmf.4
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out
  • October 4-10th: vacation all I ever wanted
  • Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Krinkle: jobrunner+scap3, please reply: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • NEED update on discovery-analytics for trebuchet->scap3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149
  • NEED someone to help test OCG when we migrate it to scap3
  • NEED, Jobrunner should be ready for deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888 (Krinkle? or anyone who can ensure the correct running of jobrunner post-deployment)
• Updates

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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

• a couple logspam things, didn't file much but started nagging people on IRC and got them fixed
• pretty uneventful

Other Team Business

• Offsite
• Dev Summit
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2018

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/

• Docker 17.05, discussing with Alex where to live
• no response yet from alex/joe re blubber package

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• waiting on Krinkle, hoping for OCG's demise

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

• No progress, spent the week mostly on therapy. :(

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Tech Debt/Code Health
  • Scheduled Tech Debt SIG sessions
  • Code health blog post draft done. Will send out for review today
• Post Mortem
  • Received requested feedback from Aaron regarding the problem, introduction, things to avoid this problem in the future.

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