Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170807

2017-08-07

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• August 3-9: Željko vacation
• August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
• August 8-15: Greg @ Wikimania & Tech-mgrs F2F
• August 9-13: Wikimania
• Aug 9-13: Dan on vacation
• Aug 11-14: Chad maybe on vacation
• Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
• Aug 15th - WMF Monthly day off (random)
• Aug 17th: Mukunda - court again
• Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!
• Sept 4 - Labor Day
• Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day

Team Business

Rotating positions and absences

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R

July 31 and Aug 7

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.12
  • wmf.13
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • August 3-9: Željko vacation
  • August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
  • August 8-15: Greg @ Wikimania&Tech-mgrs F2F
  • August 9-13: Wikimania
  • Aug 10-13: Dan on vacation
  • Aug 11-13: Chad maybe on vacation

Aug 14 and Aug 21

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.14
    • Tuesday: Chad doing branch cut/group0
    • wed/thur: Tyler
  • wmf.15
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:
  • August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
  • Aug 14th: thcipriani Birthday!
  • Aug 15th - WMF Monthly day off
  • Aug 17th: Mukunda court :-/
  • Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!

Aug 28 and Sept 4

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.16
  • wmf.17
• SoS: Tyler
• Out

Actions from last meeting

• TODO: Greg email mark/faidon/moritz plan for week after wikimania
  • DONE

Scrum of Scrums

This week

REMINDER: We missed last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Need feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3482379 from Ops
• Updates

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

• Wikidata: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/1.30-wmf.12-postmortem
• Performance regression: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172447

Other Team Business

• Security announce lists -> our team list?
  • see also: Jenkins Security advisory pre-announcement
  • If yes, which services?
    • Jenkins -  Done
    • kinda... the whitelisted jenkins-security@googlegroups email didn't send the actual advisory :(
    • Gerrit - no such list, wtf?
    • nodepool/zuul?
    • Phabricator (is there one?)
    • ???

• Deployment process improvements:
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deployments&action=historysubmit&type=revision&diff=1765924&oldid=1765923
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Holding_the_train
  • Emailed link out with last week's rollback

Q1 goal/project check-in

Program 6: Streamlined service delivery

Define functional tests for Mathoid running on the staging Kubernetes cluster for use in future gating decisions - task T170482

Define method for monitoring and reacting to the above functional tests - task T170483

• we have registry creds/ops (joe) have pwstore access
• meeting later today...

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• keyholder Too many authentication failures
• plan for jobrunner, methinks
• ahem waiting on authors :P https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D734

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Tech Debt
  • Created wiki page for Tech Tech Program
  • Need to break out some content an put in existing TD wiki page
• Code Health
  • Created Code Health wiki page
  • Created Code Health Group wiki page
  • scheduled next CHG core meeting

Phabricator

• Phabricator is migrated to phab1001.eqiad.wmnet
• Tested phab2001.codfw.wmnet - we are now very close to being ready for migration to Dallas
• Found and fixed a bunch of stupid stuff in the process, hopefully we won't hit as many problems with codfw.
• Phab email was down for quite a while. Daniel and I were up past midnight fixing things :-/

Docker for CI

• operations/puppet now live :)
  • https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/zuul?panelId=13&fullscreen&orgId=1&from=now-7d&to=now-5m
  • https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/operations-puppet-tests-docker/buildTimeTrend
• Documented: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Continuous_integration/Docker

Grooming

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

• closed and touched in the 7 days
• No update for 4 weeks
• No update for 3 weeks
• No update for 2 weeks
• No update for 1 week
• All Open
• Review To Triage column of #releng

• Assigned
• Unassigned

Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

• releng Review To Triage column of #releng
• releng-kanban Review unassigned in kanban
• releng-kanban Review 'backlog' colum of -kanban
• releng-next - Review for things we need to put on our kanban backlog
• releng-backlog - oh my, the huge backlog of things...

Kanban stats

Burnup chart