Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170925
2017-09-25[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
- Sept 28 - Mukunda half day
- October 6 (Friday): Željko on a conference
- October 4-10th: Chad - vacation all I ever wanted
- 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[edit]
Rotating positions and absences[edit]
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 25 and Oct 2[edit]
- Train: Chad
- Train: Mukunda (week of Oct 2nd)
- SoS: Tyler
- Out
- Sept 18-29: WMF "Remote and Relaxation" weeks
- Sept 21: Antoine paperwork, but mostly working as usual
- Sept 29: Antoine, conference
- October 4-10th: Chad - vacation all I ever wanted
Oct 9 and Oct 16[edit]
- Train: Chad
- SoS: Mukunda
- Out
- October 4-10th: vacation all I ever wanted
- Oct 9 - Indigenous People's Day
Actions from last meeting[edit]
Scrum of Scrums[edit]
This week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Selenium Ruby framework deprecation (September) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/75/selenium_ruby_framework_deprecation_september/
- "This is your friendly but penultimate warning..."
- 1.30 REL branch cut last week, 1.31-alpha/1.31.0-wmf.1 starting this week
- Selenium Ruby framework deprecation (September) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/75/selenium_ruby_framework_deprecation_september/
Last week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Krinkle: jobrunner+scap3, please reply: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129148#3582888
- Updates
Logspam \ Last week's train updates[edit]
- logs are great right now, playing whack-a-mole as they come in
Other Team Business[edit]
- Offsite/All Hands/Dev Summit - no real news other than my last email on that thread
- ACTION: add dog friendly options
- ACTION: maybe house rental along the river in Guerneville
- re Dev Summit: any other proposals forming in people's heads?
- Just Chad's
Q1 goal/project check-in[edit]
Program 6: Streamlined service delivery[edit]
- 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/
- docker 17.06 on all docker slaves -- antoine and alex \o/
- secret storage/name-spacing
- blubber error handling patch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D784
- helm stuff -- thcipriani needs to learn more things.
- Jenkins service-delivery pipeline job created via JJB https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/service-pipeline/
- Currently fails at scm checkout :)
Deprecate use of Trebuchet across production - task T129290[edit]
 Done!
Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io) - task T139740[edit]
- T171852 WebdriverIO tech talk
- Talked with Rachel, she will pick a date soon (she is on vacation until tomorrow)
- T173488 Announce Selenium Ruby framework deprecation on appropriate mailing lists (QA, engineering, wikitech-l)
- Selenium Ruby framework deprecation (September) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/75/selenium_ruby_framework_deprecation_september/
- "This is your friendly but penultimate warning..."
Non-Quarterly goal work[edit]
Quality[edit]
Quality improvements[edit]
- Code Health
- Draft of CH Blog shared and beign edited.
- Tech Debt
- SIG Sessions went well last week. Handful of folks have followed up. IRC SIG Session will be scheduled this week.
Browser tests (non quaterly goal stuff)[edit]
Phabricator[edit]
- Custom Task Types
- "Bug" type is moving forward, slowly.
- Need ability to edit task type after task creation
- Need to improve manageability of custom forms
- "Bug" type is moving forward, slowly.
- Real-time notification server "Aphlict" is also progressing, slowly.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T765
- Phabricator side should be ready to go now, just need networking help from traffic (don't hold your breath)
Gerrit[edit]
Nightlies server[edit]
Docker for CI[edit]
Misc CI[edit]
Grooming[edit]
Team Kanban Board Review and Triage[edit]
- 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
Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)[edit]
- 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...