Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160125
2016-01-25
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
- Jan 29- Feb 1st - FOSDEM - Antoine. Travel Friday afternoon, back monday Noon (CET)
- Feb 3rd - core narrative annual plan due
- Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
- March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
- March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
- March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
- April 1st - Q4 goals published
- May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
- May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
- Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
- May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
- June (mid): Chad - EDC
- June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
- July 1st - Q1 goals published
- July 1st â Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
- August: France holiday - because french. :)
- January 2017Â : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)
Team Business
[edit]=== Actions from last meeting ===
- TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
- Overdue
- ACTION: Antoine to create a task
KPIs
[edit]New vs Maint time spent
[edit]Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
Other Team Business
[edit]Hackathon attendance
[edit]Who wants to go?
- Antoine: no
- Chad: no
- Dan: no
- Greg: no
- Mukunda:no
- Tyler: no
- Zeljko: no
Trains shift first week of Febuary
[edit]Can we move them one hour later? Antoine would like to pair deploy it and level up :-} Ie:
Tuesday, February 02 MediaWiki Wednesday, February 03 Thursday, February 04
Would like to shift by an hour ie:
11:00â13:00 PST --> 12:00 - 14:00 PST Or 21:00 -> 23:00 CET
Outcome: Agreed.
Idea: Grafana Deployment dashboard
[edit]- Something that keeps track of salient stats in grafana
- Often don't need the detail that logstash provides while deploying (post-deploy/problem determination: sure; while deploying: is shit blowing up?)
- Something like HTTP error rate + Mediawiki errors. Annotate with sync-wikiversions, something like that
- Played a bit with annotations this weekend...found out that they are poorly documented: http://docs.grafana.org/reference/annotations/
Annual Planning
[edit]- Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Tracking_core_and_strategic_work
Past ideas and things:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Wishlist
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-epics/
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14aLP8LumCz9ZSmViCrqFR14L6w0bPcbGbx-Z3rKmuWE/edit#gid=0
To discuss: How to go about this team planning.
Planning etherpad (for any notes we want to create on this): https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1617-plan-ideas
NOTES MOVED TO ^^^
Q3 goal/project check-in
[edit]Reduce CI Wait time
[edit]- KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen
- Migrate remaining CI jobs to Nodepool - task T119138
- php composer (Zend and HHVM) - task T119139
- as many miscellaneous jobs as possible - task T119140
- Migrate Jenkins to Jessie - task T124121
Consolidate deploy tools
[edit]- Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313
- Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926
Differential Migration
[edit]- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
- Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31
- Shepherd the RFC - task T119908
- Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320
- Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")