Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180618
2018-06-18
editVacations/Important dates
edit- June 19: WMF Monthly Holiday - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
- June 18-22: Dan – Vacation
- July 2: Greg's BDay!!!
- July 4: US Holiday
- July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
- August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
- August ~: Antoine
- September a week or so - Antoine
- Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani
Rotating positions
editTrain
edit- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
- June 11 - wmf.8 - Dan (with Tyler doing Thursday)
- June 18 - wmf.9 - Dan (no train, SRE summit) <----
- June 25 - wmf.10 - Dan
- July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July
- July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko
- July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljo
- July 23 - wmf.14 - Antoine
- July 30 - wmf.15 - Antoine
SoS
edit- June 11 - Tyler
- June 18 - Tyler <----
- June 25 - Tyler
- July 02 - Dan
- July 09 - Dan
- July 16 - Dan
- July 23 - Zeljko
- July 30 - Zeljko
- August 06 - Antoine
- August 13 - Antoine
Team Business
editUpdates
edit- Train/SWAT changes
- Greg emailed mark/faidon on Tuesday
- email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/eu-train-swat
- Skill matrix ready!
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
- [X] Antoine - We should revisit it, ElasticSearch doesnt ring any bell to me
- thcipriani: +1
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
- Phabricator spam
- TODO: Create an incident report
- Last time: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170617-Phabricator-spam
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/phab-spam-20180615 basic timeline started
- Gerrit duplicate account issue
- tl;dr ugh, too cutting edge
- tyler and mukunda pairing after meeting
Q1 Goals time!
edit- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Release_Engineering/FY1819-Planning/Continuous_Deployment_pipeline
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Release_Engineering/FY1819-Planning/Code_Health
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Release_Engineering/FY1819-Planning/Developer_productivity
TODO:
- Per program determine attainable quarterly goals (duh)
- NB: For the DevProd program I'm just going to put ~"Hire an engineer"
- TODO: By monday have a list of goals per program.
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums
This week
editRelease Engineering
edit- Blocking
- Working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710 for Readers
- Blocked
- Updates
- wmf.999 is running on group0 wikis for testing MCR related changes, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196585
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
editRelease Engineering
edit- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Please take the Beta Cluster survey:
- Heads up: There will be more people in the normal MW Train deployment rotation (namely: Antoine, Zeljko, and Dan to start) and we'll be doing some Train deployments during EU hours some weeks. Exact timing TBA (soon).
Train status and happenings
edit
Past week status updates
edit- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4
Quaterly Goals for Q4
editProgram 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
edit- Migrate away from Nodepool - task T190097
- Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Add Python/Tox support to Blubber - task T186545
- Add Ruby/Gem/Bundler/Rake support to Blubber - task T188950
- Gated extensions work with Quibble - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197469
- Pass for extensions on master/wmf branch. Some edges cases. Should be done by end of week.
- Nodepool leftover would be ~ 1% of what we used previously.
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
edit- Broad role out of Code Stewardship model.
- Update Maintainers/Developers page with currently known Code Stewards.
- Use Code Stewardship review process to address gaps.
- Deploy dashboard of Code Stewardship Coverage
- Q4 Stewardship review progress
- Worked on Dashboard mock-up
Program 3: Outcome2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
edit- Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches.
- Identify early adopter engineering teams to test approaches.
- Continued evaluation of Platform team Tech Debt and approach to managing.
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers
edit- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Small, standalone, MediaWiki containers built using Blubber
- Limited scope with: Debian Stretch, php7, composer dependencies, Mariadb, Apache (or last two with standalone containers)
- Build MW base containers upon branch cut at master branch point from core
- Build ext specific containers using MW image as base
- In progress:
- Base container image for mediawiki
- Groovy library for pipeline
- Got a CI namespace on the k8s cluster thanks to _Joe_!!!
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
editProgram 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
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Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
editProgram 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
editProgram 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator
edit- Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
- Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085
Other work
editStandup!
editAntoine
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Gated extensions work with Quibble - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197469
- MUST deal with paperwork for end of fiscal year
- What I'm blocked on
- Quibble need a slight change/hack for mediawiki/core + gated extensions
- Other?
- Left to migrate ~ 100 extensions + BlueSpice* ones. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183512
Dan
edit- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Comp changes
- Annual Review reading/writing
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Meet with RelatedSites code stewards to review sunsetting plans
- Close out remaining Q4 Stewardship Review tasks.
- Finish Code Stewardship coverage dashboard
- Review and communicate Beta Cluster survey results
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Deal with Phabricator and Gerrit issues
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Gerrit stuffs
- MediaWiki base image for Q4 goal
- Scap clean
- Deploy notes
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
edit- What I plan to do this week
- T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side
- T194252 Configure the CI job that runs WikibaseLexeme's browser tests against beta wikidata
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Grooming
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...