Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180226
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2018-02-26
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- Mar 2 (Fri): Mukunda vacation day
- Mar 12-16 (week): Greg vacation
- Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
- April 2: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Easter Monday)
- Apr 3-13: Greg vacation
- April 16 (Mon): WMF Holiday
- May 1: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day)
- May 15?/16/17: Team offsite in Barcelona
- May 18-20: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
- May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
- May 31: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)
Rotating positions
[edit]Train
[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
- Feb 19 - wmf.22 - Mukunda
- Feb 26 - wmf.23 - Tyler <---
- Mar 05 - wmf.24 - Tyler
- Mar 12 - wmf.25 - Chad
- Mar 19 - wmf.26 - Chad
- Mar 26 - wmf.27 - Mukunda
- Apr 02 - wmf.28 - Mukunda
- Apr 09 - wmf.29 - Tyler
- Apr 16 - wmf.30 - Tyler
SoS
[edit]- Feb 19 - Chad
- Feb 26 - Mukunda <---
- Mar 05 - Mukunda
- Mar 12 - Tyler
- Mar 19 - Tyler
- Mar 26 - Chad
- Apr 02 - Chad
- Apr 09 - Mukunda
- Apr 16 - Mukunda
Team Business
[edit]Updates
[edit]Mid-year check-ins
[edit]A basic check-in: Go over what we hoped we'd do when we talked back for annual review
Then, the outline from T&C:
- Celebrate accomplishments (highs):
- What can we learn from (lows):
- What goals or projects have been completed? What went well, what could have been better?
- What goals/responsibilities are still ahead? Is any support needed to help get them done? Does any work need to be adjusted (due to departmental/organizational change)?
- Any peer feedback wanted or given? (Feel free to do this casually via email or conversation.)
- [Greg: Let me know if anyone wants to do some kind of "ask your peers for feedback", I can set something up.]
Please come prepared to talk about those items; I'll be filling out a document we can look at during the meeting, just for our records. They are not shared with T&C (they will only be checking in with managers to verify the check-ins happened, not what the content was).
Scrum of Scrums
[edit]- Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums
This week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- None?
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week
[edit]- Blocking
- None?
- Blocked
- None
- Updates
- None
Train status and happenings
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Past week status updates
[edit]- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3
Quarterly Goals
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- What: Specific improvements to the now canonical framework, see: task T182421, notably:
- Upgrade webdriverIO to version 4.9
- Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot
- Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
- Task: task T182421
- T180777 Move portal deployment artifacts into their own repo - minor fix needed to finish running selenium tests to portals/deploy repo
- T99955 Write browser tests for DonationInterface - minor fix needed to finish the setup
- T187862 Update README file for Selenium tests - updated readme for core, made some improvements in DonationInterface readme, will copy it to other skins/extensions
- T187859 Move one Selenium tests from mediawiki/core to mediawiki/skins/Vector - done, waiting for review/merge
- T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - created patch but it does not work (ERROR: Unexpected token import), will investigate and fix
- T185315 selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job should have e-mail notification - done, waiting for review/merge
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]- Goals
- Draft requirements for a Kubernetes based solution for CI - task T183513
- Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
- Will be worked on after the long tail task T187797
- Unify production and CI docker image build process - task T177276
- Â Done 01/15
- operations/mediawiki-config.git CI jobs are now solely on Docker task T186145
- 50% of builds happen on Docker!
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
[edit]- Due: End of quarter
- task T174091
- made updates to Stewardship review process, de-emphasizing sunsetting as primary outcome.
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
[edit]- Due: End of quarter
- task T174095
- worked on TD Blog post series - 2 of 3, Should have draft ready to share out 2/26
Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))
[edit]- Due: End of next quarter
- task T174096
- no progress
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline
[edit]- Due: End of this quarter
- Keyword: SSD
- phab project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
- Goal:
- Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
- Functional PoC within integration in the deployment-pipeline
- Deploy to isolated k8s
- Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
- Minikube packaging...done? Maybe. Finializing.
- Waiting on review of Blubber permissions model refactor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D984
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
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Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]- 3d2png and chromium-render services now have CI jobs (based on Docker)
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
[edit]- Started a "Wikimedia" plugin over the weekend :)
Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator
[edit]- Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
- Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085
- Working on swift this week for git-lfs support
- Moritz says he's working on php 7.1 package for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182832
Other work
[edit]Post Mortem Meeting - Legacy encoding Code Health Program planning
Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Migrate more jobs from Nodepool to Docker https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187797
- What I'm blocked on
- Corner cases with xgboost and wikidata/rdf/query (no tasks filled yet)
- Testing mediawiki services, can it please be done via Blubber :]
- Other?
- Jenkins plugins update. Notably git :(
Chad
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Get back on track with Helm
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- Kunal nerd-sniped Chad: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188196 "Create a self-service portal for trusted users to easily create new Gerrit repos"
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Get reviews on and finish up Blubber permissions model refactor https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D984
- Get reviews on and finish up Python support https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D976
- If the above is finished, commit working blubber.yaml for scap (ooooo!!)
- What I'm blocked on
- The above reviews ;)
- Other?
- Help Tyler debug crazy minikube packaging woes
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Killer deck for Developer Productivity ask
- stewardship review with Victoria/Toby
- What I'm blocked on
- Nothing? Brain?
- Other?
- Mid-year check-in
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- complete post 2 of Tech Debt Blog series.
- Post Mortem 20180129-MediaWiki Incident
- Q3 Stewardship review w/Victoria and Toby
- Update stewardship reviews page to include calendar of coming events/timelines
- Code Health program planning
- Logspam review/sync up.
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Investigate problem with phabricator dumps
- Set up a swift server in labs (prototype for phabricator uploads & git-lfs storage backend)
- What I'm blocked on
- Need review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/413640/
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Train
- Review Dan's code (blubber updates)
- Review Mukunda's code (scap plugin)
- Finalize minkube container
- What I'm blocked on
- None
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T185011 Create selenium-core-jessie daily Jenkins job
- T180777 Move portal deployment artifacts into their own repo
- T99955 Write browser tests for DonationInterface
- T187862 Update README file for Selenium tests
- T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests
- What I'm blocked on
- T187859 Move one Selenium tests from mediawiki/core to mediawiki/skins/Vector - done, waiting for review/merge
- T185315 selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job should have e-mail notification - done, waiting for review/merge
- Other?
- T187733 Running smoke tests during deployment - waiting for reply, looking at Tyler o.O
- T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - created patch but it does not work (ERROR: Unexpected token import)
- It would be great if people with black belt in JavaScript could take a quick look and let me know if it's obvious what is wrong: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/412956/
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...