Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170130

2017-01-30

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• February 20: President's Day
• March 13: Monthly day off
• April 14: Monthly day off
• May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
• May 19-21: EU Hackathon

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=800764519

Rotating positions and absences

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

Jan 23 and Jan 30

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.9
  • wmf.10
• SoS: Dan

Feb 6 and Feb 13

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.11
  • wmf.12
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • ...

Actions from last meeting

• Greg: reply to martin
  •  Done

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

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • scap 3.5 planned for this week

Other Team Business

Mid-year check-in

• This week...

Annual Planning

• Now in a central Technology team-wide document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NwsUCAeHJAw4pyl0YWS1iGNsKnCFk1toM26acLm6JVE/edit#heading=h.eh5attm0n41
• Next:
  • Make sure that "Rationale" section is sometihng we're happy with

• LOGSPAMMMM!!!111!!

Q3 goal/project check-in

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270

• meeting with team last Tuesday, 30 minutes not long enough
  • notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10YXBbS70TVwEBiUKEILyNPLvU23EKpUQXXiFfCMepus/edit
• another meeting to be scheduled this week

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)

Build fanout support in scap3

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276

• two ideas that could work
  • using Swift, maybe very few scap.git change, lots of unknowns
  • have proxies fetch via deployment server via git

Phabricator

Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator - task T146843

• Added a setting to phabricator developer settings to choose a search back-end.
  • phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/user/{your-username}/page/developer/
  • elasticsearch works well!

Non-Quarterly goal work

Browser tests

• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
  • Done. Please review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/323401/
• T151442 Research webdriver.io
  • Done. Please review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/328191/
  • Has a page object pattern implementation. That is the next step, if we decide to go with this tool.

Beta Cluster

• Huge spam log removed / bad config of InstantCommons fixed by Gergő "tgr" Tisza ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145496 )

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• contint2001
  • One basic puppet patch.
• doc for rspec puppet
  • Done https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Puppet_coding/testing
• finish MediaWiki (tarball) releases test job https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-releases/
  • Job mostly done.
  • Had few patches merged. More pending review
• get a bump of Nodepool pool
  • Havent reached out to ops
• Reviewed patches for Addshore static analysis with PHAN (landed in mediawiki/core). Played nice with upstream, got one of their package published to packagist.org https://packagist.org/packages/jetbrains/phpstorm-stubs

This week

• contint2001
  • Gotta loop back with Daniel Zahn
• finish MediaWiki (tarball) releases test job https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-releases/
  • More patches to fix up everything
• get a bump of Nodepool pool
• EasyTime line debug logging as possible
• announce rspec for puppet.git to ops

Chad

Last week

• I forgot

This week

• Gerrit
• Logspam
• Scap

Dan

Last week

• Hella CI research

This week

• Moar research
• Formulate first steps on container building infra PoC

JR

Last week

Identify first pass interviewees and schedule interviews, build knowledge re CI now and future, build knowledge of current QA/Test processes.

This week

Continue reviewing past "escapes". Identify first pass interviewees and schedule interviews, build knowledge re CI now and future, build knowledge of current QA/Test processes.

Mukunda

Last week

• Deployment train, 1.29.0-wmf.9 / T154683
  • Done
• Deploy ~2 months worth of phabricator updates.
  • Done
• Elasticsearch is now a configurable user setting in phabricator

This week

• Deployment train, 1.29.0-wmf.10 / T155525
• write up thoughts on fighting logspam

Tyler

Last week

•  Done scap 3.5.0
•  Done Future of CI prep stuffs
• N Not done Git fat deployment?
• N Not done would like to poke at some puppet updates: scap/ci-staging

This week

• Docker/K8s learnings
• Try not to pay attention to the news cycle
• CI/Deployment meeting setup
• The iScap3 fallout

Željko

Last week

• T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
• T151442 Research webdriver.io

This week

• T156558 Selenium user: Auth issues on beta wikidata?
• T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
• T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster