Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190107

2019-01-07

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• January 1 (New Year's) - Everyone
• January 21 (MLK Day) - US Staff
• February 18 (President's Day) - US Staff
• March 11 (WMF Holiday) - US Staff
• April 22 (WMF Holiday) - US Staff
• May 27 (Memorial Day) - US Staff
• June 19 (Juneteenth) - US Staff

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

• 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

• Zeljko for ever :)

Team Business

All Hands

• Registration: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2019/Registration
  • Due Friday December 14th
  • Needed for everyone

Incoming Triage/Needs attention

Gerrit 2.15.7 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210785

• After break
• Prep this week
• Tyler to ping Antoine
• Jeena may join in as well

Scrum of Scrums

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

Incoming from last week

• Blocking: nothing...

Release Engineering

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train Health:
    • Last week:
    • This week:
    • Next week: No train, holidays!
  • Log Health:
  • Code Health:

Callouts

• Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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

Quarterly Goals for Q2

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

GOAL: Release MediaWiki 1.32

WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

GOAL: Determine the procedure and requirements for an automated MediaWiki branch cut.

WHO: Mukunda, Tyler, Antoine

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

GOAL: Formalize the collection of CI infrastructure and tooling metrics

WHO: Dan, Antoine

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

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

WHO: Greg, Zeljko

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

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

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 2 / Output 2.1

GOAL: The Annual Developer Productivity Survey results are synthesized and shared, creating a first year baseline.

WHO: Mukunda, Greg

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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

WHO: JR

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.2

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

GOAL: Assess Platform unit test practices and define improvement plan

WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

GOAL: Core Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC

WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.4

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

GOAL: Metrics defined and deployed for all 4 Code Health areas.

WHO: JR, Code Health Metrics Working Group

Other non-goal work

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcume 2 / Output 2.3

GOAL: Outline options for managing incident reports creation, follow-ups, and analysis

WHO: Greg, Mukunda, Zeljko

Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208632

Standup!

Antoine

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

Dan

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

Greg

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

Jean-Rene

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

Jeena

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

Lars

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

Mukunda

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

Tyler

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

Zeljko

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

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