Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180507
Appearance
2018-05-07
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- May 7-11: Antoine, too many holidays in France that week
- May 4-14: Dan (Barcelona)
- May 10-14: Chad (family time)
- May 15-17: Team offsite in Barcelona
- May 18-21: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
- May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
- May 22: thcipriani -- recovery day
- May 28 (Mon): Memorial Day (US Holiday)
- 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
- Apr 23 - 1.32.0-wmf.1 - Chad
- Apr 30 - wmf.2 - Chad
- May 07 - wmf.3 - Mukunda <----
- May 14 - wmf.4 - Mukunda
- May 21 - wmf.5 - Mukunda
- May 28 - wmf.6 - Tyler
- June 04 - wmf.7 - Tyler
- June 11 - wmf.8 - Chad
- June 18 - wmf.9 - Chad
- June 25 - wmf.10 - Mukunda
- July 02 - wmf.11 - Mukunda
SoS
[edit]- Apr 23 - Tyler
- Apr 30 - Tyler
- May 07 - Chad <----
- May 14 - Chad
- May 21 - Chad
- May 28 - Mukunda
- June 04 - Mukunda
- June 11 - Tyler
- June 18 - Tyler
- June 25 - Chad
- July 02 - Chad
Team Business
[edit]Updates
[edit]- Q3 quarterly checkin slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZ10iUwquwQ93zUDF3DYoEcwKVG6GQ1A2sBWs0q6tng/edit#slide=id.g1651e065b0_0_555
- Activity in Barcelona!
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qVmJ47UYatbjpwOvCgLgBKsp3Ntv0gZv1-NuhiDnjFM/edit?ts=5ad72c5e&pli=1#gid=0
- A cooking class and La Sagrada Familia are tied
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
- Announcing Quibble! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/99/introducing_quibble/
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/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
Kicked off Q4 stewardship review cycle Met with CommTech team regarding the sunsetting of ReleaseSites extension.
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.
Setup TD engagement kickoff meeting with Platform team Setting up TD engagement kickopff meeting with Search Platform team
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
- Messing with Blubber/Composer and MediaWiki core but it's unclear how viable Composer-based dependency installation will be
- 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)
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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
- git-lfs / swift storage backend for phab. Differential WIP patch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1049
Other work
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Vacations and rest. I am exhausted after the Docker/quibble long sprint
- What I'm blocked on
- Migrating extensions to quibble https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183512 . There are lot of edge cases.
- Jenkins latest LTS. 2.107 has some apparently nasty change ( https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/03/15/jep-200-lts/ https://jenkins.io/doc/upgrade-guide/2.107/ )
- Other?
- Looking forward to get Blubber to support MediaWiki!
Chad
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Offsite logistics and schedule, goal to share out by Thursday
- JD writing
- Quarterly Checkins (Wednesday (ours) and Friday)
- What I'm blocked on
- Verify with Faidon re train/deploys next week (email out)
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- stewardship review discussions
- prepare for Hack-a-thon TD session
- Continue work on stewardship/code metrics
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Train - wmf.3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191049
- Try to finish phabricator swift backend - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1049 is nearly finished.
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Scap update, according to godog, hopefully tomorrow
- Finish up open puppet patches
- ready my burner laptop for travel
- deployment-prep deployment server stuff https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192561#4183530
- volunteer puppet compiler followup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192532
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- jenkins 2.107.3 LTS but uhhh https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191971
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js - see how it works with Quibble
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - see how it works with Quibble
- T193244 selenium-CirrusSearch-jessie does not run any tests - fixed, waiting for reviews
- T191537 MediaWiki core's selenium tests flaky when run as part of mwext-mw-selenium-node-composer-jessie job - see how it works with Quibble
- What I'm blocked on
- T193883 `FATAL: java.io.IOException: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: ...build/screenshots.yml` for language-screenshots-VisualEditor - LanguageScreenshotBot does not want to run
- Other?
- beta-mediawiki-config-update-eqiad stuck in postmerge for hours https://integration.wikimedia.org/zuul/
- T194032 Deal with recent surge in suspicious @aol.com subscriptions
- T192395 Create Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian Analysis Chains Using Serbian Morphological Libraries - done with word group reviews
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...