Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170816

2017-08-16

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• August 7-25: Antione relocating and vacation
• Aug 15th - WMF Monthly day off (random)
• Aug 15th - Željko local holiday (Assumption of Mary)
• Aug 16th - Dan half day
• Aug 17th: Mukunda - court again
• Aug 21st - thcipriani eclipse!
• September 1 - Željko on a conference
• 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
  • Sept 4 - Labor Day

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • Last projects moving to scap3
    • Niharika/community tech at SoS/there are patches, just no deployment window scheduled
      • iegreview
      • scholarships
    • No idea about
      • ocg
      • dropwizard metrics(???) - Speak up now or forever hold your peace (we'll delete it)
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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

• https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170721-Train-Wikidata

Other Team Business

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162181 Should we add psy/psysh to wmf vendor repo for use on WMF servers?
  • Help needed until Antoine returns mwgate-php55lint Jenkins job fails for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/339584/
  • All I know: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162181#3527699

• train:
  • sooooooooo there are 7 blockers and wikidatawiki is still on wmf.11 -- what's the update?
  • (groan)
  • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20170721-Train-Wikidata

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 - T170482

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

• workboard
  • added tasks
  • made subtasks
  • hopefully a better view now
• Have some code review to do

• Blubber updates:
  • Big refactor to build instructions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D741
  • Finishing up fixes/improvements to node application build https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171632
  • Successfullly built and ran Mathoid image! \o/

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• remains we can do with help
  • discovery-analytics
  • jobrunner stuff
• Niharika/bug community tech at SoS/there are patches, just no deployment window
  • iegreview
  • scholarships
• No idea about, ask for help at SoS
  • ocg
  • dropwizard metrics(???)

Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) -

• T171847 Create Jenkins job that runs RelatedArticles Selenium tests daily
  • Subtask of T164024 Rewrite Related pages browser tests in Node.js
  • The final thing (I hope) that will bring Node.js framework to feature parity with Ruby framework
  • Currently working on creating a job that would run core tests daily targeting beta cluster
  • As soon as that is working, it should be easy to modify the job (or create another one) to run the job for an extension (only RelatedArticles for now)

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Tech Debt
  • Split TD wiki article into a "Technical Debt" and "Technical Debt Program" articles
  • WIll be reaching out to Tech mgt regarding "Top 5"
  • Setting up TD SIG for broader discussing on what Tech Debt is (level setting)
  • Orphaned code

Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff)

• What to do with Ruby framework improvement and/or help requests?
  • T172835 Edits sometimes fail for new users erroneously reporting them as anon
  • T170890 [4 hrs] MinervaNeue browser test are flaking (waiting for {:class=>"mw-notification", :tag_name=>"div"} to become present )

Docker for CI

• Addshore made a thing for phan \o/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/371708

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