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2018-11-05

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • November 8-9 - Dan vacation in Mexico City 🇲🇽🌮🎉
  • November 12th - Holiday (Veteran's Day, Observed)
  • November 22+23 - Holidays (Thanksgiving)
  • November 25-december 2nd: Mukunda vacation (in California ahead of the offsite)
  • Week of December 3rd - Team offsite
  • December 24-28 - Holidays (Christmas)

Rotating positions

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Train

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
  • Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Dan (No train due to DC switchover)
  • Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
  • Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda (warning, TechConf happening, ping Greg if you need responses from anyone there...)
  • Oct 29 - wmf.2 - Tyler
  • Nov 05 - wmf.3 - Tyler <----
  • Nov 12 - wmf.4 - Antoine
  • Nov 19 - wmf.5 - No Train (Thanksgiving)
  • Nov 26 - wmf.6 - Antoine
  • Dec 03 - wmf.7 - No Train (Offsite)
  • Dec 10 - wmf.8 - Zeljko
  • Dec 17 - wmf.9 - Zeljko
  • Dec 24 - wmf.10 - No Train (Holiday break)
  • Dec 31 - wmf.11 - No Train (Holiday break)
  • Jan 07 - wmf.12 - Dan
  • Jan 14 - wmf.13 - Dan
  • Jan 21 - wmf.14 - Mukunda
  • Jan 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands)
  • Feb 04 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
  • Feb 11 - wmf.17 - Tyler
  • Feb 18 - wmf.18 - Tyler
  • Feb 25 - wmf.19 - Antoine


SoS

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  • Oct 10 - Zeljko
  • Oct 17 - Zeljko
  • Oct 24 - Zeljko
  • Oct 31 - Zeljko
  • Nov 07 - Zeljko <----
  • Nov 14 - Zeljko
  • Nov 21 - Zeljko
  • Nov 28 - Zeljko
  • Dec 05 - Zeljko
  • Dec 12 - Zeljko
  • Dec 19 - Zeljko
  • Dec 26 - Zeljko
  • Jan 02 - Zeljko
  • Jan 09 - Zeljko
  • Jan 16 - Zeljko
  • Jan 23 - Zeljko
  • Jan 30 - Zeljko
  • Feb 06 - Zeljko
  • Feb 13 - Zeljko
  • Feb 20 - Zeljko
  • Feb 27 - Zeljko

Team Business

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Hiring

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  • update....

December Offsite

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Details:

  • Week of December 3rd
  • At the Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach
  • Deb T will be facilitating

Topics!

REMINDER: Deadline to book travel is Nov 8th!


All Hands

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Needs attention

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  • deploy1001:/srv/mediawiki out of date?
    • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207602
    • Found because the Security team noticed that a previously deployed security patch was no longer deployed, should sync up with them this week about that (Reedy or Brian)
    • See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207600
    • 2018-10-22: no idea, thcipriani will look, I guess
    • 2018-10-29: scap updated, needs release this week
    • 2018-11-05:
      • Need to poke Reedy re:T207600
      • scap still needs release - mukunda will take care of it


  • deployment-prep region migration
    • See email with same subject on releng@lists
    • Question: incrementally or not?
      • looks like "however Andrew wants to do it"
      • REMINDER: send an email update to wikitech-l@/qa@ with the planned timeline/outage
      • 2018-10-29: ACTION: Tyler to reply saying "take it away, andrew, and when are you going to do it?"
      • 2018-11-05: Email response   Done -- blocking task from Krenair https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101 -- Dan and Mukunda graciously volunteered ;)

Scrum of Scrums

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

Incoming from last week

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  • Blocking:


Outgoing this week (wrong section heading is on purpose for copy/pasting into Scrum of Scrums etherpad

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Release Engineering

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Callouts

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  • Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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

Quarterly Goals for Q2

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TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Release MediaWiki 1.32
WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)


TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Determine the procedure and requirements for an automated MediaWiki branch cut.
WHO: Mukunda, Tyler, Antoine

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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GOAL: Formalize the collection of CI infrastructure and tooling metrics
WHO: Dan, Antoine


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

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GOAL: Develop set of metrics to assess incident reports/post mortems - task T206622
WHO: Greg, Zeljko

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AUqMgzThBHNL7DgI8C9PO_YQ1oD5CSd0iWvcVbowzdg/edit#gid=1154483822


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

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GOALS:
Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline - task T205919
Migrate graphoid to the Deployment pipeline
Deploy zotero v2 to the Deployment pipeline
Deploy blubberoid
WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars
  • Lars, Dan, and thcipriani had a pairing session Friday to move Blubberoid forward


TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 2 / Output 2.1

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GOAL: The Annual Developer Productivity Survey results are synthesized and shared, creating a first year baseline.
WHO: Mukunda, Greg
  • This is finally sent out and we've already gotten a lot of (IMO useful) responses.


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Update/refresh review queue (review process for initial code deployment)
WHO: JR



TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.2

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GOAL: 5 of the 15 prioritized repositories have at least 1 end-to-end test - task T206621
WHO: Zeljko


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

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GOAL: Assess Platform unit test practices and define improvement plan
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

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GOAL: Core Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.4

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GOALs:
Identify key Tech Debt areas
Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.1

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GOAL: Metrics defined and deployed for all 4 Code Health areas.
WHO: JR, Code Health Metrics Working Group


Other work

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Selenium

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Gerrit

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Phabricator

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Jenkins

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QA

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SCAP

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Standup!

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Antoine

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Relocated Wikibase client job ready to migrate to Docker. Repo one gotta wait and see why scope is so different

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Look at Wikibase repo
    • Java 8 security update fall outs? Probably want to upgrade CI container
  • What I'm blocked on
    • DonationInterface migration pending on fundraising
  • Other?


Dan

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Greg

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  • What I plan to do this week
    • catch up on l10nupdate follow-ups
    • follow-up from TechConf program committee (cleaning/sanitzing notes and posting to wiki mostly)
    • a quick pass through any remaining updates to the onboarding process/task structure (incorporate learnings from Lars')
  • What I'm blocked on
    • dunno?
  • Other?
    • dunno?


Jean-Rene

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


Lars

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  • What I plan to do this week
    • Delivery pipeline architecture diagram to understand what the goal and status quo is.
    • Find and read existing delivery pipeline code. (thcipriani: in integration/config)
    • Study Kanban boards.
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Lack of superbrain
  • Other?
    • Nada


Mukunda

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  • What I plan to do this week
    • Get the lastest scap deb released
    • keyholder review
    • I didn't get the MW 1.32.0-rc1 tarball done last week, get that done this week for sure
    • (with Dan) Fix beta cluster static IPs for transition to the new cloud region
    • Outline proposal for incident report forms
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Tyler

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  • What I plan to do this week
    • Train
    • Gerrit
    • Fundraising CI job
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Zeljko

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  • What I plan to do this week
    • T199133 Find top 15 target projects that could use Selenium tests to prevent incidents
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Grooming

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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
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