Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170925

2017-09-25

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 28 - Mukunda half day
• October 6 (Friday): Željko on a conference
• October 4-10th: Chad - 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 25 and Oct 2

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.1
• Train: Mukunda (week of Oct 2nd)
  • 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: Chad - 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
• Updates
  • Selenium Ruby framework deprecation (September) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/75/selenium_ruby_framework_deprecation_september/
    • "This is your friendly but penultimate warning..."
  • 1.30 REL branch cut last week, 1.31-alpha/1.31.0-wmf.1 starting this week

Last week

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

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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

• logs are great right now, playing whack-a-mole as they come in

Other Team Business

• Offsite/All Hands/Dev Summit - no real news other than my last email on that thread
  • ACTION: add dog friendly options
  • ACTION: maybe house rental along the river in Guerneville

• re Dev Summit: any other proposals forming in people's heads?
  • Just Chad's

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 17.06 on all docker slaves -- antoine and alex \o/
• secret storage/name-spacing
• blubber error handling patch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D784
• helm stuff -- thcipriani needs to learn more things.
• Jenkins service-delivery pipeline job created via JJB https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/service-pipeline/
  • Currently fails at scm checkout :)

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

 Done!

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

• T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
  • Talked with Rachel, she will pick a date soon (she is on vacation until tomorrow)

• T173488 Announce Selenium Ruby framework deprecation on appropriate mailing lists (QA, engineering, wikitech-l)
  • Selenium Ruby framework deprecation (September) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/75/selenium_ruby_framework_deprecation_september/
  • "This is your friendly but penultimate warning..."

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Code Health
  • Draft of CH Blog shared and beign edited.
• Tech Debt
  • SIG Sessions went well last week. Handful of folks have followed up. IRC SIG Session will be scheduled this week.

Phabricator

• Custom Task Types
  • "Bug" type is moving forward, slowly.
    • Need ability to edit task type after task creation
    • Need to improve manageability of custom forms
• Real-time notification server "Aphlict" is also progressing, slowly.
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T765
  • Phabricator side should be ready to go now, just need networking help from traffic (don't hold your breath)

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