Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170501
2017-05-01[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- May 1: Željko local holiday (Labor Day / May Day)
- May 3: Greg going beach
- May 5: Mukunda day off?
- May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
- May 16-18: Mukunda vacation time?
- May 19-21: EU Hackathon
- July 10-14th: Tyler adventure time
Team Business[edit]
Time spent spreadsheet[edit]
Rotating positions and absences[edit]
Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers
April 17 and Apr 24[edit]
- Train: Mukunda
- week of 17th: no deploys (dc switchover)
- wmf.21
- SoS: Tyler
- Out:
- April 17th: Antoine travel
- April 19-21: Željko vacation
- April 27-29th: Antoine in Amsterdam (unreacheable)
May 1 and May 8[edit]
- Train: Mukunda
- week of the 1st: no deploys (dc switchover)
- wmf.1
- SoS: Tyler
- Out:
- May 3: Greg going beach
May 15 and May 22[edit]
- Train: Tyler
- week of 15th: team offsite, no train
- [ wmf.2]
- SoS: Mukunda
- Out:
- May 16-18: Mukunda vacation time?
Actions from last meeting[edit]
Scrum of Scrums[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
This week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- symlink scap sync thing with Jon Robson
- in team meeting discussion about how we might address this
- symlink scap sync thing with Jon Robson
- Updates
Logspam[edit]
- Most interesting thing is that there's not much that's interesting.
- Anything that shows up is really new and gets addressed pretty quickly
- modulo redis timeouts....
Offsite[edit]
- Brainstorm etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEng-Offsite-2017-05-Topics-brainstorm
- Logistics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yq4y9srT0bW1ZWT8Kt5zpaQscQcw3uWFHsOb9Hfre30/edit#heading=h.p27l44qc76kn
- Just FYI at this point, but our dinner reservations are already made if you care
Other Team Business[edit]
Q4 goal/project check-in[edit]
Streamlined Services Delivery[edit]
- Build a runnable image from tested and confirmed code that is suitable for promotion.
- define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container
- generate or consume a docker file for building
- build image, upload and tag it in docker registry
- Dan met with Marko re: Blubber and Service Builder to reconcile and deduplication work
- Marko asked: Why Go? Response: err, duurrr, iono. Thoughts? Rewrite in Node? *Let's get more feedback in the weekly Pipeline meeting.*
- Service Builder has been broken out into its own tool
- K8s parts have not been shared/committed yet but curious to see them
- Working on ranking the stuff from JR's document async and will talk about it
Train 2.0[edit]
- Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 3)
- Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - task T104352
- discussing conftool on deployment hosts, stil in progress
Release MediaWiki 1.29[edit]
- A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271
- Chad did a branch
Non-Quarterly goal work[edit]
Quality[edit]
Quality improvements[edit]
(aka JR's work, I just thought of a quick/basic name, feel free to change :) )
- posted to engineering@
- probably talk about at hackathon
Browser tests[edit]
- zeljko not here
Phabricator[edit]
- phab1001 is ready
- we now have: phab2001, phab1001, and iridium (need to decom iridium)
- DOS issue to look into
- Task types
People status updates[edit]
Antoine[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Travel
This week[edit]
Chad[edit]
Last week[edit]
- MW 1.29
- Gerrit security thing (again)
This week[edit]
- Scap
- mw release pipeline stuff
- Got server last week, starting puppetiziation
Dan[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Work more on proofing Blubber
This week[edit]
- Assess Service Builder and reconciling features with Blubber
JR[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Test data wrangling improvements
- Bug data wrangling improvements
- engaged with analytics team to discuss
This week[edit]
- Test data wrangling improvements
- Bug data wrangling improvements
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Train MW-1.29.0-wmf.21
- Lesson learned: when branching goes wrong, start over, don't try to fix things. It's not worth it - too many things to go wrong.
- Further investigate Phabricator outages
- No progress, need feedback from ops
- Phabricator update (pull from upstream)
- done
- SCAP3 stuffs
- No progress
This week[edit]
- Several small phabricator things for this week
- phab1001 is now ready
- I want to get task types merged soon if I can get ops attention
- Still need to investigate the outages (need ops input on this as well)
- Requested friday off (in namely and at the top of etherpad)
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Build image with blubber to push to ci-staging
- scap canary work:
This week[edit]
Željko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- T162966 Figure out why browser tests can't create suggestion box
- T162454 LanguageScreenshotBot fails with `Error: timeout of 40000ms exceeded. Ensure the done() callback is being called in this test.`