Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20171018
2017-10-18
editVacations/Important dates
edit- Oct week of 23rd thcipriani
- October 25 (Wednesday) Željko - conference (Testival)
- November 1 (Wednesday): Željko - holiday (All Saints' Day)
- Nov 10 (Fri) - Veteran's Day
- Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
- Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
- December 25 (Monday): Željko - holiday (Christmas Day)
- December 26 (Tuesday): Željko - holiday (St Stephen's Day)
- Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
- January 1 (Monday): Željko - holiday (New Year's Day)
Team Business
editRotating positions and absences
editManiphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
Oct 9 and Oct 16
edit- Train: Chad
- SoS: Mukunda
- Out
- October 4-10th: vacation all I ever wanted
- Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day
Oct 23 and Oct 30
editTrain Chad SOS: Mukunda
Actions from last meeting
editScrum of Scrums
editThis week
edit- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week
edit- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- MW deployment train for this week is behind by a day, we plan to catch up today (doing both group0 and group1)
Logspam \ Last week's train updates
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Other Team Business
edit- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e6m2GNc3pc40sxE_PNCrJdRW9fGu1HYjnv2-aOHUxj4/edit#
- https://etherpad.tylercipriani.com/p/releng-team-gaps
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/monitoring-pitch
Q2 goal/project check-in
edit- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
Quarterly Goals
editProgram 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)
edit- Due: End of this quarter
- Quarter Goal Task: Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740
- Mobile web team going strong
- T162256 [EPIC] Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js on Reading Web extensions
- T177262 [subtask] Rewrite Page Previews browser tests in Node.js
- I was mostly helping with this one
- T174018 Port Minerva's browser tests to Selenium
- T177260 [subtask] Rewrite MobileFrontend's browser tests
- T177261 [subtask] Rewrite QuickSurveys browser tests in Node.js or remove them
- T173505 Add createAccount method to nodemw
- Working on it, should not be hard.
- T177412 Mocha tests for Echo notifications
- Porting Ruby API tests to Node.js. Almost there.
- T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
- Rachel suggested two dates, both did not work for me. Waiting for another date.
Ruby
edit- T167432 Run Wikibase daily browser tests on Jenkins
- Might need help from Antoine on setting up screenshots and video recording
- T177924 Run Popups Selenium tests daily targeting beta cluster
- declined
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations)
edit- Due: End of this quarter
- Quatertly Goal task: - task T174090
- Started pulling together rough code stewardship levels, should have something for initial review/discussion next week.
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
edit- Due: End of next quarter
- Quaterly Goal task - task T174091
- no progress since last week.
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 1: Define a “Technical Debt Project Manager” role that regularly communicates with all Foundation engineering teams regarding their technical debt
edit- Due: End of this quarter
- no progress since last week
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
edit- Due: End of next quarter
- tech debt blog series post 1 should be ready for initial review in the next couple of days.
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to publish new versions of an application to production via testing and staging environments that reliably reproduce production
edit- Due: End of this quarter
- Complete build phase of release pipeline
- Build test variant
- Run test entrypoint w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Build production variant w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Tag production container
- Push to production docker registry - ops dependency - staging namespace
Tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157469
- current status: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
- Dan working on test pipeline for mathoid
- Found some weirdness with contint1001 still trying to figure out
- tyler puppetizing cleanup of old containers
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
editProgram 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T137124 "Submodule space issues"
- Made some progress on a patch that avoids duplicating the .git object store for each rev.
- ~50% finished, will post a WIP for code review soon
- Support git-lfs in gerrit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171758
- Probably have an interim solution for now not backed by Swift
- Lots of small code cleanups
- Replace DOLOGMSGNOLOG
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68049
- Mostly done, working on patch tweaks
- Eliminate symlinks from MW deploys
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126306
- PrivateSettings done, StartProfiler in progress -- these are the two worst
- Rest being assessed
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
edit- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
edit- Totally swapped to Scap3-based deploys and using systemd instead of init.d
- Support git-lfs in gerrit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171758
- Probably have an interim solution for now not backed by Swift
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator
edit- Last week's deployment broke some forms due to field visibility:
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server
editOther work
editGrooming
editTeam Kanban Board Review and Triage
edit- 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
Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)
edit- 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...