Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180723


2018-07-23 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • July 23-27: JR Vacation
  • August 15 (Wednesday): 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 edit

Train 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 - Zeljko <----
  • July 30 - wmf.15 - Mukunda
  • Aug 06 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
  • Aug 13 - wmf.17 - Mukunda
  • Aug 20 - wmf.18 - Tyler
  • Aug 27 - wmf.19 - Tyler
  • Sep 03 - wmf.20 - Dan
  • Sep 10 - wmf.21 - Dan
  • Sep 17 - wmf.22 - Zeljko
  • Sep 24 - wmf.23 - Zeljko
  • Oct 01 - wmf.24 - Antoine
  • Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Antoine
  • Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
  • Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda

SoS edit

  • July 04 - Dan
  • July 11 - Antoine
  • July 18 - Antoine
  • July 25 - Tyler <----
  • Aug 01 - Tyler
  • Aug 08 - Dan
  • Aug 15 - Dan
  • Aug 22 - Mukunda
  • Aug 29 - Mukunda
  • Sep 05 - Tyler
  • Sep 12 - Tyler
  • Sep 19 - Dan
  • Sep 26 - Dan
  • Oct 03 - Zeljko
  • Oct 10 - Zeljko
  • Oct 17 - Antoine
  • Oct 24 - Antoine
  • Oct 31 - Mukunda


Team Business edit

First Offsite? edit

Hiring tech task/take home test edit

Needs attention edit

  • 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?
  • Upgrade gerrit to 2.15.3
    • #together?
    • Tyler and Mukunda
    • will review process this week, schedule upgrade for end of this week or early next week

Scrum of Scrums edit

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

This week edit

Release Engineering edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates
  • Quarterly cross-dependencies

Last week edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates
    • Next 3 weeks train in EU time
    • Successful EU Train last week \o/
  • Quarterly cross-dependencies

Train status and happenings edit

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

- .13 blocked (3 blockers)


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 edit

Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context edit

Code 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
  • T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
  • 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
  • nothing recent, delayed due to Sr position being first in the queue.

Other work edit

Selenium edit

  • Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
    • T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
      • fixed for Math
      • failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`

Gerrit = edit

Phabricator = edit

  • Almost finished with improved antivandalism algorithm that scores individual edits and gives credit based on the user's history.
    • Essentially users with edit history can make more edits before hitting the limit and edits which destroy the description of a task are scored much higher than adding or removing a single project.

QA edit

Standup! edit

Antoine edit


Dan edit


Greg edit

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Get tech task and hiring moving for the Sr position
    • Still want to make some changes to the Skill Matrix
    • MW releases and Cindy meeting (to schedule)
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Jean-Rene edit

  • What I plan to do this week
    • vacation
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Mukunda edit

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Deploy improved antivandalism in phabricator \o/
    • Work on gerrit upgrade with Tyler
    • Try to finish phabricator revert tool
    • Finish elasticsearch 6 support in Phabricator
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Tyler edit


Zeljko edit

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Moar train
    • T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
      • fixed for Math
  • What I'm blocked on
    • T188742 failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`
  • Other?


Grooming edit

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage edit


Once / month-ish review of backlog(s) edit


Kanban stats edit

Burnup chart