Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20171218

2017-12-18

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • December Fridays - Greg is taking off
  • December 20-22: Dan - holiday
  • 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

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Rotating positions and absences

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R

Dec 18 and Dec 25

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  • Train: NO ONE!
  • SoS: Chad
  • Out:
    • Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
    • December 25 (Monday): Željko - holiday (Christmas Day)
    • December 26 (Tuesday): Željko - holiday (St Stephen's Day)
    • Antoine - not sure yet of the exact dates


Jan 1 and Jan 8

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  • Train: Mukunda
  • SoS: Tyler
  • Out:
    • January 1 (Monday): Holiday, everyone

Actions from last meeting

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Scrum of Scrums

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This week

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Release Engineering

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
    • Teams that did not port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js (T139740): No team (1), Editing (1), Fundraising Tech (1), Global Collaboration (4), Multimedia (1), Reading Web (3), WMDE Engineering (5)
  • Updates
    • REMINDER: No deploys this week and next (18th and 25th). Take a break :)


Last week

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  • Blocking
  • Updates
    • [MW Train] Reminder! This is your last week of deployments for the year/quarter! No non-emergency deploys starts the week of December 18th.
    • [Meta] Q3 goal planning
    • [Security/Ruby] T180878 Upgrade RuboCop and Rubyzip (Ruby)
      • All done except for Minerva (needs a +2) and mediawiki/debian (unsure if needed).
    • [Security/Jenkins] Upgraded a bunch of Jenkins plugins Monday morning EU time (after a bunch of security releases).
    • [Phabricator] Exploring the use of Selenium tests for search quality regressions
    • [TechDebt] Getting further on the definition of “steward”. We will be talking with Victoria and Toby “soon”.
    • [SSD] One more merge (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/395570/) and our quarterly goals are complete.
    • [PostMortem] ORES post-mortem completed last week: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Post-Mortem-T181006


Puppet SWAT

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list of patches you want to submit to Puppet SWAT


Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor
  • a couple things with fixes
  • going to spend some time this week tidying it up before the holidays

Other Team Business

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Q3 goals! :) :)

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3
Program 1: webdriver.io
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_1:_Availability.2C_performance.2C_and_maintenance
  • T182421 Selenium framework improvements
    • Things to do in the next quarter.
Program 3: Tech Debt
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_3:_Addressing_technical_debt

Outcome 1

  • Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans - task T174091
  • Objective 3: Define and steward a light-weight process for adopting or orphaning/sunsetting products and infrastructure.
    • This is done by the Sunsetting working group

Outcome 2

  • Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
  • Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))


Program 6: SSD
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_6._Streamlined_service_delivery
  • Pre-Dependency on Ops:
    • CI k8s cluster for the Verify pipeline stage


Other
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Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) =
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workboard


Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure =
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Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
  • Draft requirements for a CI k8s cluster in preparation for Ops to create it in the following quarter(ish)
  • Nodepool deprecation: npm and php jobs, but there will be a long tail of corner case jobs
  • https://i.imgur.com/2XB7Lp8.png
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server
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  • chad point on this, bulk of time
  • Sam Reed and Chad will work on setting it up this week


Q2 goal/project check-in

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All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2

Quarterly Goals

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Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)

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Due: End of this quarter
Quarter Goal Task: Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740
  • T174103 [Epic] Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js for the Search Platform
    • making a list for SoS of needed migrations still
    • CirrusSearch/Discovery closed the migrate task, there are still some ruby selenium tests in the repo though, investigating :)
  • T175179 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job for CirrusSearch
    • Got smoke tests running both locally and in CI
    • JJB configuration still TODO
Ruby
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  • T180878 Upgrade RuboCop and Rubyzip
    • All done.

Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations)

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Due: End of this quarter
Quatertly Goal task: - task T174090
  • Waiting to talk to Victoria/Toby

Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans

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Due: End of next quarter
Quaterly Goal task - task T174091


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

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Due: End of this quarter



Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation

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Due: End of next quarter



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

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Due: End of this quarter
Keyword: SSD
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/

Quaterly non-goal "Work"

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Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)

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workboard
  • scap deb build mishaps
    • scap deb was built from master (oops)
    • included the git flat dir
    • on the rebuild the quilt patches weren't applied, (oooops!)
    • rebuilt again, now works
    • documentation updates incoming

Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure

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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

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Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator

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Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server

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  • plugging along

Other work

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  • Follow-up work re ORES Post Mortem
    • Services review
    • Extension review


Grooming

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Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

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Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

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Kanban stats

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Burnup chart