Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180730
2018-07-30
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- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
- How to do it
- August 8-10th: thcipriani
- August 15 (Wednesday): WMF Monthly Holiday
- August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
- August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
- August ~: Antoine
- August 29-31: Dan vacation
- September a week or so - Antoine
- 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 (No train - Wednesday is a holiday)
- 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
- 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
Jenkins plugin security release today
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First Offsite
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- Submitted google form to Travel on Friday with two options:
- The week after Tech Conf (arriving Sun, working Mon-Wed, Activity on Thur, leaving Fri)
- The week of Nov 5th (so a week break between Tech Conf and the offsite)
Needs attention
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- 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?
- UPDATE: Conversation on task, still unclear use cases
Scrum of Scrums
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- Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums
This week
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Release Engineering
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- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
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- Blocked by:
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- Blocking:
- Updates
Train status and happenings
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- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor
- 1.32.0-wmf.14 everywhere, all good
- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4
Quaterly Goals for Q1
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Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context
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- tracking task
Code Health
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- 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
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- 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
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Selenium
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- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- No progress in the last week because of train 🚂
Gerrit =
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- Deployed new version: 2.15.3 \o/
- Data center switchover work?...Is this a thing that has to move? We probably don't have time.
- I don't know.... Ask... someone?
- will double-check SRE goal list
Phabricator =
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- Deployed improved Antivandalism algorithm and it appears to be working well
- Almost done with revert tool though it's imperfect and will remain imperfect unfortunately
- It may be time to consider disabling admin-approval soon.
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Few edge cases on extensions
- Need to overhaul the way we run tests and stop running everything. Antoine to summarize discussions.
- Other?
- What I plan to do this week
- T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
- T200452 Move Blubber repo and CR to Gerrit (see blocked on)
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- What I plan to do this week
- Hiring (3 candidates getting recruiter screened today) and more reviews of incoming applications (94 applicants)
- Alexandros agreed to be in on the interview loop
- Travel/Offsite planning
- trying to pin down personal travel plans for end of summer
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
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- What I plan to do this week
- Phab PM
- CH:PEP Tech Debt
- CH:Pull together sub team for core metrics
- QA:Meeting to discuss QA in foundation
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- What I plan to do this week
- Train :-o
- Phabricator, phabricator, phabricator...
- Finish work on the revert tool.
- Phabricator post-mortem.
- What I'm blocked on
- Train may block progress on the rest of this stuff
- Other?
- What I plan to do this week
- More work on helm test for CI namespace, reply to alexandros
- Move deployment-tin -> deployment-deploy01
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- What I plan to do this week
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
- Incident reports
- What I'm blocked on
- I need help from teams involved in train problems to complete incidents reports
- Other?
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