Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20171113
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2017-11-13
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- Nov 14th - 16th: Antoine half there (schedule madness)
- November 17 (Friday) Željko - conference (Coderetreat)
- Nov 17th: Mukunda vacation
- Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
- Nov 20th - 22nd: Mukunda vacation
- Nov 21th - 22nd: Dan vacation
- Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
- Nov 23 morning: Antoine
- Dec 4th (Monday): Antoine
- December 25 (Monday): Željko - holiday (Christmas Day)
- December 26 (Tuesday): Željko - holiday (St Stephen's Day)
- Dec 25-Jan 1 - End of year/new year holidays
- January 1 (Monday): Željko - holiday (New Year's Day)
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
Nov 6 and Nov 13
[edit]- Train Chad
- SOS: Tyler
- Out
- Nov 10 (Fri) - Veteran's Day
- November 17 (Friday) Željko - conference (Coderetreat)
Nov 20 and Nov 27
[edit]- Train Chad
- No train week of the 20th
- [tbc wmf.10]
- SOS: Mukunda
- Out
- Nov 20th - Dec 1st: Greg vacation
- Nov 20th - 22nd: Mukunda vacation
- Nov 23+24 - Thanksgiving
Actions from last meeting
[edit]- ACTION: git-lfs in Gerrit
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]This week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Reminder: no MW train week of Thanksgiving
- [TechDebt Program] Currently investigating best practices on commit review guidelines/prerequisites
- [TechDebt Program] Defining the PM role more explicitly: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Debt_Program/Program_Management
- [Scap sprint] New scap release 3.7.2 pushed based on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMSCA2561b82
- Helping with the upcoming security release of MediaWiki.
Last week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Please port your browser tests to the nodejs framework. 7 repositories have not started yet (still in ruby, which is no longer maintained).
- See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139740
- Notably: Global Collaboration Team, Fundraising Tech, Wikibase, and Mulitmedia
- Please port your browser tests to the nodejs framework. 7 repositories have not started yet (still in ruby, which is no longer maintained).
- Updates
- No MW Train the week of the 20th due to Thanksgiving, SWATs will be open on Mon and Tuesday (Wednesday is “Friday” that week).
- [TechDebt program] First pass of the service levels for component ownership was shared with the Code Health Group last week; feedback on-going.
- [TechDebt program] The next blog post should be posted Real Soon Now™ (done on our side).
- [SSD Program] Working on getting the mathoid tests running on submit.
- [SSD Program] A new release of Blubber is on the horizon.
- [scap tech debt] Working to support both pre git-2.11 and post git 2.11 hosts (namely Trusty and Jessie (with backports)/Stretch, respectively) to let us use newer functionality (notably `--jobs`).
- [CI] Most tox jobs are moved to Docker containers
- [CI] Investigating why many docker containers are left behind after a SIGTERM
We got pinged on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178570 / https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178189
Puppet SWAT
[edit]- list of patches you want to submit to Puppet SWAT
Logspam \ Last week's train updates
[edit]
Other Team Business
[edit]- Update on 1 pager for Victoria
Q2 goal/project check-in
[edit]- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q2
Quarterly Goals
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Migrate majority of developers to JavaScript based browser test framework (webdriver.io)
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Quarter Goal Task: Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js - task T139740
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- Updated stats (per status, per team, per repository)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139740
- T164721 Run WebdriverIO tests in CI for extensions
- Merged during the meeting
Ruby
[edit]- T167432 Run Wikibase daily browser tests on Jenkins
- Amir whitelisted Jenkins IPs on testwiki, it should fix test failures https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390975/
- JJB configuration done, waiting for review/merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390394/
- job deployed https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Selenium/job/selenium-Wikibase-chrome/
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Define a set of code stewardship levels (from high to low expectations)
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Quatertly Goal task: - task T174090
- Investigated what we currently do regarding commit/review prerequisites.
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
[edit]- Due: End of next quarter
- Quaterly Goal task - task T174091
- no activity
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 1: Define a “Technical Debt Project Manager” role that regularly communicates with all Foundation engineering teams regarding their technical debt
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- First pass role responsability defined : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Debt_Program/Program_Management
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
[edit]- Due: End of next quarter
- Education/Alignment:Tech Debt Blog post in queue
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline to publish new versions of an application to production via testing and staging environments that reliably reproduce production
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Keyword: SSD
- Complete build phase of release pipeline
- Build test variant
- Run test entrypoint w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Build production variant w/developer feedback - services dependency
- Tag production container
- Push to production docker registry - ops dependency - staging namespace
- Tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157469
- current status: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
- new blubber revision in process https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D875
- question for marxarelli: do we need to add dependencies? Also: how do we add dependencies ;)
- docker-pkg all the things in process (maybe fits in docker for CI work)
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
[edit]- New scap release 3.7.2 pushed based on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rMSCA2561b82
- Fillippo said he'll get it uploaded first thing this week.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D877
- whoops :-/
- We should update the How to deploy code/Scap wikipage, I have been ignoring that change in tagging, but gbp changes it automagically.
- Done https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_deploy_code/Scap&diff=1775303&oldid=1761230
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D877
- Fillippo said he'll get it uploaded first thing this week.
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]- Goal: A generalized POC for a docker-based CI.
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/3008/ (shipyard workboard)
- Process left behind after Jenkins SIGTERM "docker run". Some work in progress to relay signals, shutdown cleanly.
- Ultimately, mightl want to do something like:
trap 'docker stop <(cat container.id)' SIGTERM docker run --cidfile container.id & wait
- TODO: write a blogpost about docker run and signals
- How to ship dependencies ( libXXX-dev )
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
[edit]- Volunteers are archiving mediawiki/extensions in Gerrit (marked read-only + [ARCHIVED] in description) and in CI (Zuul triggers a "failed-archived" job that always vote Verified -1). Usually each is tracked by a task.
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator
[edit]- Nothing new to report
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: MW Nightlies server
[edit]- security
Other work
[edit]- Scap plugin: "Task Series" for maintaining the deployment blocker tasks: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/390429/
- This can be used for creating other series' of tasks in phabricator, if we have a need for any others
- Documentation:
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...