Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170911

2017-09-11

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
• Sept 21: Antoine paperwork, but mostly working as usual
• Sept 29: Antoine, conference
• October 6 (Friday): Željko on a conference
• Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day
• November 1 (Wednesday): Željko local holiday (All Saints' Day)
• Nov 10 (Fri) - Veteran's Day
• Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
• Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
• Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays

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

Sep 11 and Sept 18

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.18
  • wmf.19
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out

Sep 25 and Oct 2

• Train: Chad
  • wmf.20
  • wmf.21
• SoS: Tyler
• Out

Scrum of Scrums

This week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • NEED update on discovery-analytics for trebuchet->scap3 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129149
  • NEED someone to help test OCG when we migrate it to scap3
  • NEED, Jobrunner should be ready for deployment https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888 (Krinkle? or anyone who can ensure the correct running of jobrunner post-deployment)
• Updates

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
  • discovery/analytics -> scap3?
• Updates

Logspam \ Last week's train updates

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

Other Team Business

• Q2 Planning:
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
  • re CI: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.

• Main goals page for Technology: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2017-18_Q2

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

Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/

• Tyler cleaned out Dan's review backlog, and even put one on Dan's :)
• something something 17.05 plan?
• blubber is close to an initial release
• already a working blubber and helm config for mathoid

Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129290

• Crap.
  • Tyler handing off hand holding for iegreview/scholarships to Mukunda during puppetswat

Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) - task T139740

• T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
  • Heard back from Rachel, will pick a date in the next week or two.

Non-Quarterly goal work

Quality

Quality improvements

• Testing
  • Zeljko and JR discussed potential series of blog posts/podcasts re testing, agree good idea and are starting planning it out.
• Tech Debt and Code Quality
  • Provided overview of Tech Debt to Tech Management meeting
    • following up with each manager to collect "Top 5"

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