Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180409
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2018-04-09
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- Apr 3-13: Greg vacation
- Apr 11: Dan
- April 16 (Mon): WMF Holiday
- Apr 17: Dan
- May 1: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day), Antoine ditto
- May 8: Antoine
- May 7-14: Dan (Barcelona)
- May 14-17: Team offsite in Barcelona
- May 18-21: 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
- Apr 23 - 1.32.0-wmf.1 - Chad
- Apr 30 - wmf.2 - Chad
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
- Apr 23 - Tyler
- Apr 30 - Tyler
Team Business
[edit]Updates
[edit]Staging: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CT_pKjwiDmFhZZ9LW9mz0z434-wgr3NFdapUPWUvMNA/edit
- Continue to discuss/comment/etc please!
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
- Blocked
- Updates
Last week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Train status
- Pencils down on MW 1.31.0
Train status and happenings
[edit]- 1.31.0-wmf.28: Finally stabilized with most logspam quieted.
- Still open:
** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191634 ** Still a few DBReplicationWaitError exceptions happening to keep an eye on. ** https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190960
Past week status updates
[edit]- All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4
Quaterly Goals for Q4
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]- Migrate away from Nodepool - task T190097
- Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Add Python/Tox support to Blubber - task T186545
- Add Ruby/Gem/Bundler/Rake support to Blubber - task T188950
Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans
[edit]- Broad role out of Code Stewardship model.
- Update Maintainers/Developers page with currently known Code Stewards.
- Use Code Stewardship review process to address gaps.
- Deploy dashboard of Code Stewardship Coverage
- updated developers/maintainers page with information from current stewardship reviews
Program 3: Outcome2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation
[edit]- Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches.
- Identify early adopter engineering teams to test approaches.
- no activity
Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers
[edit]- Add Composer support to Blubber - task T186547
- Small, standalone, MediaWiki containers built using Blubber
- Limited scope with: Debian Stretch, php7, composer dependencies, Mariadb, Apache (or last two with standalone containers)
- Build MW base containers upon branch cut at master branch point from core
- Build ext specific containers using MW image as base
Quaterly non-goal "Work"
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)
[edit]
Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure
[edit]Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit
[edit]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
Other work
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Quibble job for CI!
- Write a use case story for Zuul upstream
- What I'm blocked on
- Various tests breaks on REL branches
- Other?
- Brown dwarf
Chad
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188935 modify service-pipeline to include helm install/helm test (Normal Open)
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191327 Come up with a decent method of declaring helm chart path/version in service repo (Normal Open)
- What I'm blocked on
- nada
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- stewardship dashboard
- code/component activity metrics
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- git-lfs/swift
- phabricator deployment wednesday
- What I'm blocked on
- N/A
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Train
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1025
- FInish pupppet patch for minikube
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
- T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
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...