Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170227
2017-02-27
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- Feb 28: Dan out
- March 13: Monthly day off
- March 23-28: Chad in Miami
- March 30, 31: Tyler in Wichita
- March 30-Apr 3: Greg in Berlin (Wikimedia Conference)
- April 14: Monthly day off
- May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
- May 19-21: EU Hackathon
Team Business
[edit]Time spent spreadsheet
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Rotating positions and absences
[edit]Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers
Feb 6 and Feb 13
[edit]Feb 20 and Feb 27
[edit]Mar 6 and Mar 13
[edit]Actions from last meeting
[edit]- TODO: Sign up for the Product and Technology consultation if you have any slight amount of interest: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Product_and_consultation
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
This week
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- none
- Updates
Other Team Business
[edit]How do we update weekly deployment calendar? Is there any documentation? https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
Logspam
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Annual Planning
[edit]Team Strategy/Planning
[edit]- "The logging bucket" nacent idea: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b_SOn15hbqvERgL87a7IbquWipDUbBqjBz6vlvrOdco/edit
Technology-wide planning
[edit]- CollabJam slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/106U2p8gdPVvHyFmlQSJPKV85uchLELPC4_ESD-2CZKw/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287
- Technology team goals: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NwsUCAeHJAw4pyl0YWS1iGNsKnCFk1toM26acLm6JVE/edit#heading=h.eh5attm0n41
- Greg to give a brain dump of what happened at the CollabJam
Q3 goal/project check-in
[edit]Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization
[edit]- Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158812 dan made a task! :) where's my cookie!?
- Changes ready for Jenkins to be managed by systemd
Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)
[edit]Build fanout support in scap3
[edit]- Mukunda cut a new release -- lots of bugfixes
- Some work around submodule space issues
- Fix for awful sync-common happening too late issue in master, probably out this week
Phabricator
[edit]- I've done a massive amount of work on the elasticsearch integration and it's getting close to merging upstream:
- https://secure.phabricator.com/D17384
- Learned a lot and got a lot of great feedback from Evan as usual.
- Will be able to handle elasticsearch failover across data centers as well as load balancing between multiple search services.
- Also making repositories searchable: https://secure.phabricator.com/D17300
- Previously only commits were easily searchable from the global search
- This isn't new this week but I think I forgot to mention it previously
Non-Quarterly goal work
[edit]Browser tests
[edit]- T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
- Updated Rake task to support rerunning failed tests, testing in Jenkins.
- T158074 Update Ruby tests to Selenium 3
- Ruby gem released, sent patches to all repos, most of the update trivial, some repos need more work to update.
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- Wrote a timeline, including past, present and future.
- Finally some feedback! Timo left some feedback about page objects, responded to it.
Beta Cluster
[edit]People status updates
[edit]Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Jenkins systemd
- rspec for puppet
- fight to get autoload-dev from mw injected in vendor. Needed by wmde.
This week
[edit]- composer autoloader breaks php 5.5 lint on mediawiki/vendor
- Wikidata build is broken
- gotta upgrade composer as well
- Jenkins under systemd
- Prepare to upgrade Jenkins on contint2001 (copy data, upgrade, see what happens)
- as time allow:
- migrate PHP 5.3 jobs to PHP 5.5
- Think about getting more Jenkins instances (beta, one for browser tests, maybe tools-labs)
Chad
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Gerrit
- Train
- FTP? (scap, really)
This week
[edit]Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Research build manifest standardization
- Hack on scap fanout PoC for realsies
This week
[edit]- Same same, but different
JR
[edit]Last week
[edit]- quality interviews
- spoke to Erik B
- investigate test results reporting
- investigate coorelating escapes to test coverage
This week
[edit]- quality interviews
- investigate test results reporting
- get development environment up and running
Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Phabricator stuff
- Address epriestley's feedback and get patches merged upstream
- Not yet merged but getting close: https://secure.phabricator.com/D17384
- Logspam stuff from last week
- scap+Bittorrent
- Didn't find the time
- keyholder blog post
- nope, moving forward to this week
This week
[edit]- Phabricator stuff
- Scrum of scrums
- keyholder blog post?
- dust off the phab milestone scap plugin
- look at making it update the deployment schedule (in addition to the deployment blocker tasks)
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Blog post
- Scap3 stuffz (POC? One bug for mediawiki deployments, testing infra)
- CI POC
This week
[edit]- Blog post, actually write it
- Scap3 stuff, actually do it
- Finish work on submodule space issue
- New release? Possible this week.
- CI stuff, find an outcome for it
Željko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
- T158074 Update Ruby tests to Selenium 3
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- T154894 Phase out jobs "pplint-HEAD" and "erblint-HEAD"
- T158326 Move Rake and RuboCop dependency from repositories to mediawiki/selenium
This week
[edit]- T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
- T158074 Update Ruby tests to Selenium 3
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js