Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161031

2016-10-31

Vacations/Important dates

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

• October 28 - Nov 2 - Chad (vacation to Cabo)
• October 31: Mukunda
• Oct 31st/Nov 1st - Antoine (bank holiday, equivalent of halloween)
• Nov 1st - Željko (bank holiday)
• November 4th: Mukunda
• Friday Nov 11rd - Antoine (bank holiday, WW1 and other wars commemorations)
• November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
• November 24+25: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
• December 26-30: XMas Holiday
• January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
• January 9-11: Dev Summit
• January 12-13: All Hands
• January 16: MLK Jr Day
• February 20: President's Day
• March 13: New day off for some reason
• April 14: New day off for some reason

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 43: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=760484519

Rotating positions and absences

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

Oct 17 and Oct 24

• Train: Chad+Mukunda splitting
  • no train week of Oct 17
  • wmf.23
    • Chad on Tues, Mukunda on Wed/Thurs
• SoS: Tyler
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/27
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/28

Oct 31 and Nov 7

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.1
    • Tues:Tyler, Wed/Thurs:Mukunda
  • [ wmf.2]
• SoS: Dan
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/29
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/30
• Out:
  • October 31: Mukunda + Antoine
  • November 1: Antoine (France holiday: all-saints)
  • November 4: Mukunda
  • November 11: Antoine

Actions from last meeting

• Audit if any other projects than MW+Ext use gating

costs:

• costs of the individuals tests/check in terms of time (pre-merge things)
• costs in terms of multiple people looking at things that are older

Scrum of Scrums

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/

Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • FYI, MW 1.28 release is happening https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086859.html
  • CI downtime on Thursday https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-October/086882.html

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Migrating Jenkins/Zuul on November 1st (morning Pacific time): there will be downtime

Other Team Business

QA Hire

• interview loop level setting this week

Offsite

• Follow-ups / EVARYTHING

Q2 goal/project check-in

Future of CI plan

Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1)

Use a unified git repo for MW deploys

• it kinda exists, it's neat, fun to play with, still under discussion

Release MediaWiki 1.28

TODO:

• • Sync up with Darian re security release out prior to general release
    • one last 1.26 before EOL

Wednesday Nov. 1st

• 1.28.0-rc.0
• Script for backports? No idea :(

Non-Quarterly goal work

Phabricator

DB Inconsistencies

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• Catch up with reviews/Phabricator spam
• Migrate some more jobs to Nodepool
• Prepare CI for REL1_28
• Finish prepare steps for gallium -> contint1001 migration
• Confirm date of gallium -> contint1001 migration
• ?? proof check offsite documents ??

Chad

Last week

• Train
• Tidying up some of the release scripts for Tyler :)

Dan

Last week

• Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items
• Set up proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
• Work on CI MEGACHART

This week

• Work on QA "checkpoint" costs diagrams
  • Show verification logic for unit/integration/end-to-end tests, etc.
  • Represent computational and human costs associated with (re)testing feedback along the pipeline stages
• Continue hacking on proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
• Help with blocking scap changes or wishlist items

Mukunda

Last week

• Train on Wed/Thurs
• Catch up on phabricator tasks
• Upload photos from offsite

Tyler

Last week

• Feature flag for deploy-local command change
• Figure out test env for scap3 mw things
  • Mostly done

This week

• 1_28
• CI switch
• scap 3.3.1

Željko

Last week

• Sick
• Catching up on mail

This week

• Catching up
• T108108 Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests
• T94577 mediawiki_selenium feature to show/capture Selenium WebDriver requests to remote browser.
• Senior QA Analyst hiring