Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160411

2016-04-11

Vacations/Important dates

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
• April 18th: Annual Review kickoff
• April 19-29th: Meetings with Greg to discuss peer-review selections
• April 29th: DUE DATE - Peer review forms (list of who reviews you)
• April 25th-May 6th: Complete self-reviews
• May 2nd: Q3 1 month goal review
• May 2nd-6th: Complete peer-reviews (reviews of others)
• May 2 - 6th - Reading Team offsite (Tyler)
• May 6th: DUE DATE - self-reviews AND peer-reviews!
• May 6th Friday - Antoine - vacation
• May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
• May 16-July 4: Dan - paternity leave :D
• May 23rd-June 15: Meetings with Greg to discuss your peer-reviews from others
• Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
• May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
• June 15th: DUE DATE - Greg submits his annual review of everyone
• 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

Rotating positions

Train conductor

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
• 1.28?
• May 2 1.28?? - task T131557: Antoine
• May 9 1.28?? - task T131559: Chad
• May 15 : Chad
• May 23rd - Mukunda

Maniphest query for these tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Scrum of Scrums representative

(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 23rd - Mukunda
• May 09: Chad
• May 15: Mukunda

CI point person

...

Actions from last meeting

• ACTION: Antoine to make a list of things not to do
  • TASK: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131778
• AGREED: Antoine to poke channel whenever something bad happens and seek a buddy to pair resolution with
  • First bite: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130576
•  Done 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
  • still on the backlog
•  Done ACTION: mukunda to file a task requesting a spare machine for a web frontend for Phab
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131775
• ACTION: Greg to summarize in email the peer-review system from Howie/Terry
  • still on backlog
•  Done ACTION: Tyler/Chad/Someone to make an announcement about end of quarter goal of killing trebuchet (worded better)
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/scap-announce-2016-04-04
• ACTION: Document the scap migration timeline somewhere
  • TODO: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration ???
•  Done ACTION: Greg to see what our survey options are (for the browser test user satisfaction survey)
  • Emailed Edward on 4/4
•  Done ACTION: Greg to find the person at WMF who can maybe help with survey writing
  • Greg remembered Edward's name
  • GOAL: draft the End-to-End testing framework survey this (last) week, get reviews from team next (this) meeting

Time spent spreadsheet

• Q4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SjLoTALS4_DA77M-F-gLbIFIai5b8pXkPO7AgR303FI/edit

Scrum of Scrums

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

Last

• Blocking:
  • New Security release mentioned
    • (ack) Yeah, schedule has been whack. Gotta do this. Before 1.28
• Blocked:
  • Beta Cluster SSL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97593
  • Phab/Jenkins firewall things:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131375

• • Jessie HHVM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125821

Next

• Blocked on us:
  • ??
• us blocked
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131775 (Phab new web frontend)
• Other
  • Scap migration

Other Team Business

• Gerrit mail: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131189
  • Nvm, false alarm.
• Quartelry reivew slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lZH3t9tKYeGGZBVO_Y6TCB4mUIOrONktSM2XiYCx0UE/edit#slide=id.ga4ecc5878_2_0

Q4 goal/project check-in

Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0

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

• lot of puppet work last week
  • catching up on documentation
  • (the work) should make migrations even easier
• Mukunda is working on a graph resolver to do the things that checks.yaml is being forced to do :)
• Otto migrated Something? last week? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118772

Differential Migration

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

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Greg_%28WMF%29/Sandbox
• Ping from James re moving OOUI to Differential early: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122834
• explicitly untie the "deploy from" issue and the code-review issue

End_to_End_test_language_expansion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/End_to_End_test_language_expansion

Working towards prototype https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1906/

 Done Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. - task T108874

Establish API documentation task T132355

Establish end-to-end tests task T131205

Send out user satisfaction survey. - task T131123

Prototype resource factory task T131220

Non-Quarterly goal work

CI Scaling/Nodepool

• TODO: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102137

Browser tests

• close to migrating to the selenium-* tests
  • working with VE still (infinite recursion issue...)

Beta Cluster

• Puppet is failing all over: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131946
• scap failing since deployment-mediawiki01 disk is full
  • Probably should be rebuilt
• Tyler to take a deeper dive on this today

People status updates

Chad

• I was gone. I'm back now.