Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180702

2018-07-02

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• July 2 (Monday) Željko vacation
• July 4: US Holiday
• July 6: Mukunda worked all weekend on phabricator b.s., gonna take a day off if things calm down by Friday.
• July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
• August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
• August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
• August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
• August ~: Antoine
• September a week or so - Antoine
• Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani

Rotating positions

Train

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 - Zeljko
• July 23 - wmf.14 - Antoine
• July 30 - wmf.15 - Antoine

SoS

• June 13 - Tyler
• June 20 - Tyler
• June 27 - Tyler
• July 04 - Dan <----
• July 11 - Dan
• July 18 - Dan
• July 25 - Zeljko
• August 01 - Zeljko
• August 08 - Antoine
• August 15 - Antoine

Team Business

Updates

• Train/SWAT changes
  • Greg emailed mark/faidon on Tuesday (12th, 25th, and verbal ping on 26th)
  • email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/eu-train-swat

Staging (ohai)

SRE talked about it at their offsite, read up on the changes at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CT_pKjwiDmFhZZ9LW9mz0z434-wgr3NFdapUPWUvMNA/edit?ts=5b040955#heading=h.j5ulvrixnnxf

Phabricator spam

• CommunityTechBot running
• Implemented per-IP throttling - causing problems with the WMF Office
  • whitelisted office and CommunityTechBot
  • still more to determine here on throttling
• bd808 created a tool to open up blocking of accounts to more people than just admins
  • https://tools.wmflabs.org/phab-ban/

Scrum of Scrums

Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Release Engineering

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
• Quarterly cross-dependencies
  • European MediaWiki Train window....

Last week

• Blocking
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190710
• Blocked
• Updates
  • FYI: Release Engineering will start including Europeans in our train rotation meaning that the MW Train will now include European appropriate windows for those weeks. Exact schedule TBA to wikitech-l@, ops@, engineering@, and @wikitech-ambassadors@
• Quarterly cross-dependencies

Train status and happenings

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

• Lock timeout rollback, but got back on track on Thursday
• Save timing increased 50%: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198483

Past week status updates

All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4

Quaterly Goals for Q1

Code Health

• Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
• Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
• Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
• Review existing e2e test coverage.
• Define prioritization scheme.
• Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
• Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
• Identify key Tech Debt areas
• Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
• Define base Code Health metric set.

Developer Productivity

• Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.
• Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. - task T197635

Other work

Selenium

• Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements

Phabricator =

• Ongoing phabricator vandalism is a mess.
• The vandal appears to be going to work on weekends with the intent of maximizing disruption to staff time off.
• bd808 created a thing: https://tools.wmflabs.org/phab-ban/
• Some relevant tasks:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198624
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198552
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198283

Standup!

Antoine

• What I plan to do this week
• What I'm blocked on
  • MediaWiki Selenium tests fail on bunch of extensions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196960
    • Potentially we might want to only run them when there are tests present.
• Other?

Dan

• What I plan to do this week
  • Continue refactoring service-pipeline Groovy code into integration/pipelinelib
    • Got it working on releases-jenkins.wikimedia.org last week
    • It's unit tested :)
• What I'm blocked on
  • nada
• Other?

Greg

• What I plan to do this week
  • Get ya'll those JDs, give me referrals!
  • Update skills matrix a bit more (ideas!)
  • grooming of -kanban and other workboards for the new quarter
  • verify all the things with T&C with T&C related things
  • verify Q4 goals on wiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q4
• What I'm blocked on
• Other?

Jean-Rene

• What I plan to do this week
  • Finish Beta Cluster slice/dice
  • Continue work on Tech Debt review of Search Platform and Platform teams
• What I'm blocked on
• Other?

Mukunda

• What I plan to do this week
  • Deal with phab vandalism
    • need a better way to whitelist rate limiting
  • Post-mortem on phab vandalism
  • Take a day off sometime
• What I'm blocked on
• Other?

Tyler

• What I plan to do this week
  • https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=9256#c20
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198621
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/441920
• What I'm blocked on
  • knowledge of gerrit
• Other?
  • https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/national-homebrew-competition/winners/

Zeljko

• What I plan to do this week
  • T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - needed for T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side
• What I'm blocked on
• Other?
  • Croatia 🇭🇷 in quarter-finals ⚽️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#Quarter-finals

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