Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180716
2018-07-16
editVacations/Important dates
edit- July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
- July 23-27: JR Vacation
- 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
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
- 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
edit- July 04 - Dan
- July 11 - Antoine
- July 18 - Antoine <----
- July 25 - Zeljko
- August 01 - Zeljko
- August 08 - Dan
- August 15 - Dan
Team Business
editOctober Offsite?
editNeeds attention
edit- Move Foundation Wiki to new URL when new Wikimedia Foundation website launches - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188776
- I need a volunteer to help with this.
- ETA is July 30th
- greg ping brandon
- pinged on Monday July 9th
- Create a production test wiki in group0 to parallel Wikimedia Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616
- Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
- maintenance scripts
- databases
- dba to create the database
- restbase + parsoid + tons of things
- Chad and Sam were taking care of this in the past, but none of us know how to do it
- We don't really have a lot of time :(
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki
- Is this worth it? without traffic does this tell you anymore than you can get with targeted tests in beta?
- Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
Scrum of Scrums
edit- Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums
- James F. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
- CI patch reviewed by hashar/tyler
- Moriel: UBN https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help)
- Forked to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199446 . Set of patches ready to review that should fix it for good.
This week
editRelease Engineering
edit- Blocked by:
- Need someone from SRE to merge the config for our new phabricator antivandalism extension: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/445329/
- Blocking:
- Updates
- Next 3 weeks train in EU time
- Successful EU Train last week \o/
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
edit- Blocking
- TODO: thcipriani to deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/442126/
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137
- Closed, 3 different causes
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199446 -- maybe solved, needs review
- Blocked
- Updates
- European timezone appropriate MediaWiki Train window: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
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 Q1
editPipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context
editCode Health
edit- T199253 - Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
- Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
- T199254 - Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
- Review existing e2e test coverage.
- Define prioritization scheme.
- Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
- T199257 - make current unit testing coverage more visible by reporting out to Engineering Management.
- T199259 - Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
- T199262 - Identify key Tech Debt areas
- Worked on this for Platform team - not very many currenty identified
- T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
- Reviewed existing workboards and deciding whether or not to work with existing approach or put one in place that's PEP-only.
- T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.
Developer Productivity
edit- 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
editSelenium
edit- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - nice progess, slow beause of train 🚂
- Side effect: jobs get migrated to Docker containers
- T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki - will be mostly resolved by previous task
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - nice progess, slow beause of train 🚂
Gerrit =
edit- thcipriani: Working on plugin for user management -- will fill task
Phabricator =
editQA
edit- Spoke to Victoria/Toby last week and there's a desire to develop QA within the foundation. Started working/noodling on QA strategy/planning and discussion with EMs (EMs == Engineering Managers ???? )
Standup!
editAntoine
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Blocker dropped to migrate BlueSpice* extensions to Quibble \o/
- Drop support for Semantic* extensions. Does not match our CI model
- (stretch goal): look at migrating the PHPUnit coverage jobs from Nodepool to Docker
- What I'm blocked on
- Out of time to migrate: wikidata-query-gui-build wikimedia-portals-build
- Need a patch to Quibble to have it use --testsuite=extensions when triggered by mediawiki/core
- Out of time to craft a patch that would prevent Quibble from running useless command (eg 'npm test' for each job)
- Other?
Dan
edit- What I plan to do this week
- T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
- Helping with pipeline workboard triage
- What I'm blocked on
- Bike shed shapes/colors
- Other?
Greg
edit- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Continue work on Platform TD
- QA Strategy/Planning
- Kartographer case study
- Setup PM for Phab(?)
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Try to get someone to merge my phab antivandalism extension in operations/puppet
- Continue work on a phab revert tool
- What I'm blocked on
- Need someone from SRE to merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/445329/
- Other?
Tyler
edit- What I plan to do this week
- Work with _Joe_ on canary draft setup doc for tomorrow
- Work on user gerrit plugin, have a dev setup, built a plugin
- More scap workboard triage
- More deployment workboard triage
- What I want help on
- workboard triage
- moving k8s to CI namespace
- Other?
Zeljko
edit- What I plan to do this week
- train 🚂
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - nice progess, slow beause of train 🚂
- T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki - will be mostly resolved by previous task
- What I'm blocked on
- T199647 PHPUnit tests fail for Scribunto
- T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests - needed for T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
- Other?
- Updated docs, please review https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys/Deployers and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
- Wikimedia Portals Update and European Mid-day SWAT at the same time? https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20180716T1100
- France 🇫🇷 vs Croatia 🇭🇷 in finals, 4:2
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...