Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161205

2016-12-05

Vacations/Important dates

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

• Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
• December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
• December 26-30: XMas Holiday
• January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
• January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
• 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 48: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=1151825124

Rotating positions and absences

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

Nov 28 and Dec 5

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.4
  • wmf.5
• SoS: Tyler
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/33
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/34
• Out:
  • none

Dec 12 and Dec 19

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.6
  • no train/deploys week of Dec 19
• SoS: Chad
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/35
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/36
• Out:
  • none?

Dec 26 and Jan 2

• Train:
  • No train/deploys week of Dec 26
  • [ wmf.7]
• SoS:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/37
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/38
• Out:
  • Week of Dec 26th: Everyone
  • Jan 2nd: New Year's Day observed

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
  • Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Other Team Business

QA Hire

• One candidate through all interviews, maybe a circle up this week with interview loop

kafka

• "Move primary trending service development to github" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151469
  • needs kafka, that have setup/teardown scripts
  • what would be invovled for this for us?

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.

• Meeting with Ops this week, ready?

Non-Quarterly goal work

Browser tests

• T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
  • Waitig for a patch that fixes the problem to be merged into operations/puppet
  • reviews welcome https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324203/
  • webdriver.io (T151442) and nightwatchjs (T151443) need chromedriver
    • jenkins slaves have java, so that is another option
• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • created emediawiki-core-selenium-jessie job that runs in experimental pipeline
    • https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-core-selenium-jessie/8/console
  • Good feedback from Antoine, will work on that
  • reviews welcome https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/323401/

Phabricator

• Built a search index with elasticsearch
• Upstream just added stemming to the mysql search engine
• Played with elasticsearch indexing
• Nearly completed clustered repositories with phab2001
  • Hit a bug related to phab's lack of IPv6 support
    • Upstream is working on fixing IPv6
• Nearly completed phab on jessie
  • role::phabricator::main now works on jessie
  • role::phabricator::main now works on labs

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

• Nodepool quota to be bumped on Tuesday
• Some MediaWiki PHP job to Nodepool
• E2E job on Nodepool with Zeljko

This week

• EasyTimeline fix for Chinese wikipedia
• Nodepool/Permanent slaves doc
• Dig in migrating jobrunner deployment to scap3

Mukunda

Last week

• Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
• See also: phabricator

This week

• Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
  • Continue experimenting with elasticsearch
    • Come up with a way to a/b test queries on both mysql and elasticsearch
  • This week or next
    • fail over to phab2001
    • reimage iridium to jessie, renamed to phab1001

Tyler

Last week

• work on ci-staging
• lots of review of scap code

This week

• moar scap code review
• Some puppet patches incoming, likely for ci-staging stuff

Željko

Last week

• T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
• T151442 Research webdriver.io
• T151443 Research nightwatchjs

This week

• T152422 Release new version of mediawiki_selenium
• T146916 RSpec tests for Echo Mention notification
• T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
• T151442 Research webdriver.io
• T151443 Research nightwatchjs