Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180709
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2018-07-09
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
- July 23-27: JR Vacation
- August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
- August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
- August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
- August ~: Antoine
- September a week or so - Antoine
- 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
- July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July
- July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko <----
- July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljko
- July 23 - wmf.14 - Antoine
- July 30 - wmf.15 - Antoine
SoS
[edit]- July 04 - Dan
- July 11 - Antoine <----
- July 18 - Antoine
- July 25 - Zeljko
- August 01 - Zeljko
- August 08 - Dan
- August 15 - Dan
Antoine on vacations in August, could use a switch with Dan ?
Team Business
[edit]...October Offsite?
October in Portland
[edit]- Pros:
- Next to TechConf
- Greg's flight covered
- Cons:
- Early in the fiscal year
- Greg has a 2 week long trip
November in Cheap east coast city
[edit]- Pros
- No double length trips for anyone
- Cons
- Independent, no cost savings, but that's probably OK
- Still kinda early in the fiscal year
January in SF/Bay area
[edit]- Pros
- Next to AllHands
- Flights are covered
- Right before/during Annual Planning
- Cons
- Right before/during Annual Planning
- Long trip (1.5 - 2 weeks) for most people
- Maybe there's a Tech All Hands happening making this worse?
Needs attention
[edit]- Running scap sync-dir php-1.32.0-wmf.10 fails due to syntax error - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198422
- tyler
- Formalise and Announce REL1_29 EOL - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197669
- Need someone to help discussion with Cindy and torch passing to Platform Team
- greg
- MFA for Github
- wmfgerrit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198822
- wmfphab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198823
- either ssh or tokens
- Jenkins....
- This was for enabling two-factor on Jenkins, not for bots/jenkins reaching out to github
- Discuss best solution....
- seeds in releng-secrets
- Move Foundation Wiki to new URL when new Wikimedia Foundation website launches - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188776
- I need a volunteer to help with this.
- ETA is July 30th
- greg ping brandon
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
- European timezone appropriate MediaWiki Train window: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
[edit]- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Train status and happenings
[edit]
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 Q1
[edit]Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context
[edit]- Started jenkins patch on top of Dan's work for deploying/tagging
- Dan's work on pipelinelib continues
- Big list of services to move: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198901
Code Health
[edit]- T199253 - Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
- Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
- T199254 - Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
- Review existing e2e test coverage.
- Define prioritization scheme.
- Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
- T199257 - make current unit testing coverage more visible by reporting out to Engineering Management.
- T199259 - Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
- T199262 - Identify key Tech Debt areas
- T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
- T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.
Developer Productivity
[edit]- Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.
- Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. - task T197635
- nothing really happened last week
Other work
[edit]Selenium
[edit]- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- T193088 Avoid importing core's selenium/pageobjects files using relative paths - resolved by Timo, some cleanup needed (T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki)
- T188742 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie for all repositores with Selenium tests - in progress
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - in progress, changes to Quibble needed (T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests)
- T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side - in progress, will be resolved by T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI)
Gerrit =
[edit]Phabricator =
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Pair up with Zeljko on train deployment to warmup/assist
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Finish refactoring integration/config service-pipeline code as shared libs (integration/pipelinelib)
- What I'm blocked on
- My own tendencies to over-abstract
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- remove non-quarterly goal related tasks from backlog of releng-kanban
- ask joel/deb what the plan is re a tech all hands in Jan
- ping lynette re what the hell that means
- ping Brandon re foundation wiki url changes
- Iterate my PDP with annual review feedback
- reivew WMCS reject applicants
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
=== Jean-Rene === (aka NotChingachgook)
- What I plan to do this week
- Breakout Annual/Quarterly plans into Tasks
- Search Platform and Core Platform tech debt
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Working on phabricator antivandalism extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/phabricator-ava/
- Fix up the phabricator github credentials for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198823
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Gerrit saga continues: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=9256#c23
- Some groovy writing on top of dan's patch
- Triage scap/Deployment Pipeline workboard a touch
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Train 🚂
- T193088 Avoid importing core's selenium/pageobjects files using relative paths - resolved by Timo, some cleanup needed (T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki)
- T188742 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie for all repositores with Selenium tests - in progress
- T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - in progress, changes to Quibble needed (T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests)
- T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side - in progress, will be resolved by T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI)
- What I'm blocked on
- T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests - blocking T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI) (Antoine)
- Not sure what my code-health related task for Q1 is 🤔 (Greg)
- Other?
- Croatia in semi-finals!!11!11 🇭🇷⚽️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#Semi-finals
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...