Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180604
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2018-06-04
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- May 31 (Thrusday): Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)
- June 1 (Friday): Željko vacation (git merge holiday weeked)
- June 19: WMF Monthly Holiday
- July 4: US Holiday
- August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
- Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani
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
- May 21 - wmf.5 - Mukunda
- May 28 - wmf.6 - Tyler
- June 4 - wmf.7 - Tyler <-----
- June 11 - wmf.8 -Â ???
- June 18 - wmf.9 - no train, SRE summit
- June 25 - wmf.10 - Mukunda
- July 2 - wmf.11 - Mukunda
SoS
[edit]- May 21 - Chad
- May 28 - Mukunda
- June 4 - Mukunda <-----
- June 11 - Tyler
- June 18 - Tyler
- June 25 -Â ???
- July 2 -Â ???
Team Business
[edit]Updates
[edit]- Chad :(
- Train/SoS rotation proposal while we're down a person:
- Train: Include Antoine/Zeljko into the rotation and move the train deployment time to a EU-friendly time during those weeks
- something else.. ?
- DECIDED: spread the pain across all (Antoine, Dan, Mukunda, Tyler, Zeljko, with JR after the first rotation)
- DECIDED: for weeks when it's EU people doing it we'll move the train window to a EU-centric time slot
- ACTION: Tyler to setup a branch cut hangout for this week's train (eg: tomorrow)
- DECIDED: AUTOMATE TEH SHIT OUT OF IT
Offsite notes and action items
[edit]Data Data Data
[edit]- Talk with Analytics - JR
- Talk with CE/Bitergia - JR
- Explore Bitergia - JR
- Identify data sources we want to collect - RelEng (who know what systems)
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-data-sources
- TODO: Greg: email the etherpad out to the team list
- Erik Bernhardson / Guillaume Lederrey
- After we get our list of data sources talk to them
SWATs/Trains
[edit]- TODO: Tyler reasses scap swat in mw-config from Mukunda
- Look into parsing scap messages for known patterns and pulling out the data
- Look into enabling scap start/done
- Look into recording if mwdebug was used during the deploy (eg: 'scap stage')
- H/Now will we get time for this?
- Have Mukunda do a couple weeks of SWATs
- Mukunda has a lot to say about this subject.... writeup incoming
TODO tl;dr: Tyler taskify the above and talk to Mukunda
Staging
[edit]- Greg to talk with Deb about what to do next with talking to Victoria
- Done
- Greg to figure out how we can better market what we are accomplishing (eg "monthly showcase")
- TODO
- Get a k8s cluster from SRE for CI to deploy to.
- Dan/Tyler discuss later today
- potentially poke/get a commitment on a timeline soon
- Dan/Tyler discuss later today
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
- Heads up: There will be more people in the normal MW Train deployment rotation (namely: Antoine, Zeljko, and Dan to start)
- Heads up: There is a new primary deployment host, deploy1001.eqiad.wmnet (tin is gone)
- Reminder: just use deployment.eqiad.wmnet for ssh
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
[edit]Release Engineering
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Train status: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191051
- 1.32.0-wmf.5 got held up last week by an incident that happened during the scheduled Thursday train deployment window.
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180524-wikidata
- We should be back on track this week, wmf.5 is clear of blockers and wmf.6 should be rolling out as usual
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
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
- No activity
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.
- Tech Debt engagement kickoff meeting with Platform
- Tech Debt engagement kickoff meeting with Search Platform
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
- At a bit of an impasse with the whole MW-extensions-and-composer thing
- Still not sure why https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/435289/ was -2'd as it's just adding meta data
- Pushed to https://github.com/marxarelli/mediawiki-extensions-Math for now to run experiments
- Waiting for feedback on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193824#4244594
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]- Staging Environment
- Sent out Beta Cluster survey. 33 responses so far.
Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/J107
- What I plan to do this week
- Wikibase does not play well with Quibble
- Experimental job for gated extensions and maybe migrate them
- Catch up with train deploy
- What I'm blocked on
- Lot of extensions fails due to random reason
- Other?
Chad
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Continue experimenting with composer and MW extensions
- It's hella slow and can't recurse when used with git repos
- Seeing whether Satis might be utilized to keep a private MW composer repo up to date
- Maybe update it from git repo periodically but it also supports partial updates given a specific package name and repo url (so, a CI job could update it after a merge to MW ext repo)
- Continue experimenting with composer and MW extensions
- What I'm blocked on
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/435289/ but not really, because I just forked it on (Micro$loth)GH... :)
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- OMG Annual Reviews and such
- Hiring Follow-up with Recruiting
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Follow up with Q3 stewardship review newly assigned stewards re progress with plans.
- Dig into Platform tech debt - followup to engagement kickoff meeting.
- Search Platform tech debt - prioritizing approach for them.
- Follow-up on "Data,Data,Data" tasks from offsite.
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Train (meetings for train)
- Discuss ways to move-forward/unblock P6O2O2
- Help moving deployment-deploy01
- Peer review writing time
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T195496 mediawiki-core-qunit-selenium-jessie sometimes fails for extensions
- T194252 Configure the CI job that runs WikibaseLexeme's browser tests against beta wikidata
- T167432 Run Wikibase daily browser tests on Jenkins
- What I'm blocked on
- T196374 language-screenshots-VisualEditor fails with `stderr: warning: failed to remove cache`
- 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...