Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160404
2016-04-04
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
- March 28th - Antoine && Željko - local holiday (Easter Monday)
- March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
- April 1st - Q4 goals published
- April 1st - FDC Annual Plan Narrative going to the FDC
- April 11-15 - Antoine - vacation
- April 14-15 - Željko - conference
- May 2 - 6th - Reading Team offsite
- May 6th Friday - Antoine
- May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
- May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
- Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
- May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
- June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
- June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
- July 1st - Q1 goals published
- July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
- August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
- August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
- January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)
Team Business
[edit]Rotating positions
[edit]Train conductor
[edit]Week of ...
- Jan 11 (wmf.10): Dan
- Jan 18 (wmf.11) - task T125143: Dan
- Jan 25 (wmf.11) - task T125143: Dan
- Feb 01 (wmf.12) - task T125475: Antoine with Dan pairing
- Feb 08 (wmf.13) - task T125596: Chad
- Feb 15 (wmf.14) - task T125597: Antoine
- Feb 22 (wmf.14) - task T125597: Chad
- Feb 29 (wmf.15) - task T127086: Chad
- Mar 07 (wmf.16) - task T128218: Mukunda
- Mar 14 (wmf.17) - task T128872: Mukunda
- Mar 21 (wmf.18) - task T129691: Tyler
- Mar 28 (wmf.19) - task T130227: Tyler
- Apr 04 (wmf.20) - task T130945: Dan
- Apr 11 (wmf.21) - task T131555: Dan
- Apr 18: Master datacenter switch
- Apr 25 (wmf.22) - task T131556: Antoine(?)
- May 2 (wmf.23) - task T131557: Antoine(?)
- May 9 (wmf.24) - task T131559: Chad(?)
- 1.28?
Maniphest query for these tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers
Scrum of Scrums representative
[edit](bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...
- Feb 08: Tyler
- Feb 15: Dan
- Feb 22: Tyler
- Feb 29: Tyler
- Mar 07: Chad
- Mar 14: Chad
- Mar 21: Mukunda
- Mar 28: Mukunda
- Apr 04: Tyler
- Apr 11: Tyler
- Apr 18: Dan(?)
- Apr 25: Dan(?)
- May 02: Chad(?)
- May 09: Chad(?)
CI point person
[edit]...
Actions from last meeting
[edit]- ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
- AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with
- Next: Greg to make a task for this :)
- ACTION: Greg ping Chad about Q3 timespent spreadsheet (since he's out that week)
- ACTION: Mukunda to read over https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114421 wrt to Phab/differential
- ACTION: mukunda to file a task requesting a spare machine for a web frontend for Phab
- ACTION: Greg to summarize in email the peer-review system from Howie/Terry
- ACTION: Tyler/Chad/Someone to make an announcement about end of quarter goal of killing trebuchet (worded better)
- ACTION: Document the scap migration timeline somewhere
- ACTION: Greg to see what our survey options are (for the browser test user satisfaction survey)
- ACTION: Greg to find the person at WMF who can maybe help with survey writing
New vs Maint time spent
[edit]- Q3: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LJDc5W2Mlpzc0L1i7WyPwWU8AgWMn0fXRuNEEmg1EMU/edit#gid=0
- Q4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SjLoTALS4_DA77M-F-gLbIFIai5b8pXkPO7AgR303FI/edit
ACTION: Greg ping Chad about Q3
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
- Phabricator event for testing if it's useful: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155
- Blocked on us:
- ??
- us blocked
- keyholder patch from mukunda
- Krenair would like us to mention https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97593
- QUESTION for Ops: what is the timeline to migrate the appservers to Jessie?
Other Team Business
[edit]- ACTION: greg to update this
- nvm, Antoine did
- ACTION: greg to update this
- Probably need to be aware of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114421 "[RFC] Optional Travis integration for Jenkins"
- It's set to "stalled" right now
- ACTION: Mukunda to read over wrt to Phab/differential
- Iridium overheating issue (see ops@ list message from Tim and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131742
- Chris Johnson (DC tech) suggests reapplying thermal paste, downtime of 10 minutes
- ACTION: yuup
- ACTION: mukunda to file a task requesting a spare machine for a web frontend for Phab
- Chris Johnson (DC tech) suggests reapplying thermal paste, downtime of 10 minutes
- a collaborator
- Peer feedback system proposal (we'd be guinea pigs)....
- ACTION: Greg to summarize/email
Q4 goal/project check-in
[edit]Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Train2.0
- Migrate remaining services to scap3
- Services Team owned services and MW - task T109926
- All other services - task T129290
- scap 3.1 is on production
- using new python refreshcdbjson
- git-fat, deploy-init, etc
- keyholder/hiera patch waiting (see SoS)
- spent time with ORES migration, now deployed with scap3 on Beta Cluster
- services will be moving more stuff after Marko gets a few puppet patches merged
- Zuul server to use scap3, after ORES sorted out requirements for python software deployment
ACTION: Tyler/Chad/Someone to make an announcement about end of quarter goal of killing trebuchet
- This week, Tyler on point to draft it this today, others review it, verify with Chad's earlier email
- (greg to make a quick task for it)
- ACTION: Document the timeline somewhere
- Chad announced deprecation of Trebuchet back in March 11th on ops list
- aka: "no new services with trebuchet"
Ref: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1824/
Differential Migration
[edit]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration
- Conclude RFC process - task T119908
- Documentation and workflow explanation - task T117058
- Phase 1 repository migration - task T130418
- Spec out needed glue for Differential to Gearman to Nodepool - task T130949
- Made progress with Gearman firewall rule
- thanks to dzahn
- Phabricator can talk to Gearman to trigger Jenkins jobs
- if we use https instead of ssh to checkout git repos we're unblocked
- Unblocked to prototype Differential + Gearman
- Greg added more explicit task ordering on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migrationh
End_to_End_test_language_expansion
[edit]- Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. - task T108874
- Prototype new JS framework. - task T131121
- Send out user satisfaction survey. - task T131123
- New projects/subprojects in phabricator to track quarterly Malu work
- Prototype is not far off
- Next: start drafting the survey
- ACTION: Greg to see what our survey options are
- GOAL: draft it this week, get reviews from team next meeting
- ACTION: Greg to find the person at WMF who can maybe help
- Resource factory is the only remaining prototype "feature"
Non-Quarterly goal work
[edit]CI Scaling/Nodepool
[edit]- Jenkins Gearman plugin upgraded to 2.0 (send delta instead of full list)
- tox jobs --> to nodepool
- only a few left (pywikibot), rest migrated today (4/4)
- npm 2.x --> unblocks bunch of migration of npm jobs to Nodepool
- Goal of getting tox and npm migrated this week
- Building Zend 5.5 on Jessie. Tyler tip: http://dotdeb.org/
- Need HHVM on Jessie
- QUESTION: what is the timeline to migrate the appservers to Jessie?
Browser tests
[edit]- old https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/view/-Dashboard/
- new https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/selenium/
- config moving from Jenkins job inline shell to MediaWiki selenium rake task (easier maintenance)
Beta Cluster
[edit]- skipped, not much to report about it anyway