Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/Template


2018-02-12 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • Feb 2nd: Mukunda vacation day
  • Feb 19 (Mon): President's Day (All US Staff)
  • Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
  • April 14 (Fri): WMF Holiday
  • May 15?/16/17: Team offsite in Barcelona
  • May 18-20: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
  • May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F


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
  • Feb 05 - wmf.20 - Chad
  • Feb 12 - wmf.21 - Mukunda
  • Feb 19 - wmf.22 - Mukunda
  • Feb 26 - wmf.23 - Tyler
  • Mar 05 - wmf.24 - Tyler
  • Mar 12 - wmf.25 - Chad
  • Mar 19 - wmf.26 - Chad
  • Mar 26 - wmf.27 - Mukunda
  • Apr 02 - wmf.28 - Mukunda
  • Apr 09 - wmf.29 - Tyler
  • Apr 16 - wmf.30 - Tyler

SoS edit

  • Feb 05 - Tyler
  • Feb 12 - Chad
  • Feb 19 - Chad
  • Feb 26 - Mukunda
  • Mar 05 - Mukunda
  • Mar 12 - Tyler
  • Mar 19 - Tyler
  • Mar 26 - Chad
  • Apr 02 - Chad
  • Apr 09 - Mukunda
  • Apr 16 - Mukunda

Team Business edit

Updates edit

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

  • Blocking
    • None?
  • Blocked
  • Updates

Last week edit


Train status and happenings edit

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


Past week status updates edit

All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3

Quarterly Goals edit

Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack edit

Due: End of this quarter
What: Specific improvements to the now canonical framework, see: task T182421, notably:
Upgrade webdriverIO to version 4.9
Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot
Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
Task: task T182421


Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure edit

Goals
Draft requirements for a Kubernetes based solution for CI - task T183513
Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
Unify production and CI docker image build process - task T177276
  Done 01/15



Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans edit

Due: End of quarter
task T174091


Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation edit

Due: End of quarter
task T174095


Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s)) edit

Due: End of next quarter
task T174096


Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline edit

Due: End of this quarter
Keyword: SSD
phab project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
Goal:
Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
Functional PoC within integration in the deployment-pipeline
Deploy to isolated k8s


Quaterly non-goal "Work" edit

Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2) edit

workboard


Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure edit

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit edit

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator edit

Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085

Other work edit

Standup! edit

Antoine edit

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


Chad edit

  • What I plan to do
  • What I'm blocked on
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Dan edit

  • What I plan to do
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Greg edit

  • What I plan to do
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Jean-Rene edit

  • What I plan to do
  • What I'm blocked on
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Mukunda edit

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


Tyler edit

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


Zeljko edit

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


Grooming edit

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage edit


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


Kanban stats edit

Burnup chart