Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180723
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2018-07-23
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- July 23-27: JR Vacation
- August 15 (Wednesday): 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 - Zeljko <----
- July 30 - wmf.15 - Mukunda
- Aug 06 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
- Aug 13 - wmf.17 - Mukunda
- Aug 20 - wmf.18 - Tyler
- Aug 27 - wmf.19 - Tyler
- Sep 03 - wmf.20 - Dan
- Sep 10 - wmf.21 - Dan
- Sep 17 - wmf.22 - Zeljko
- Sep 24 - wmf.23 - Zeljko
- Oct 01 - wmf.24 - Antoine
- Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Antoine
- Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
- Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda
SoS
[edit]- July 04 - Dan
- July 11 - Antoine
- July 18 - Antoine
- July 25 - Tyler <----
- Aug 01 - Tyler
- Aug 08 - Dan
- Aug 15 - Dan
- Aug 22 - Mukunda
- Aug 29 - Mukunda
- Sep 05 - Tyler
- Sep 12 - Tyler
- Sep 19 - Dan
- Sep 26 - Dan
- Oct 03 - Zeljko
- Oct 10 - Zeljko
- Oct 17 - Antoine
- Oct 24 - Antoine
- Oct 31 - Mukunda
Team Business
[edit]First Offsite?
[edit]Hiring tech task/take home test
[edit]- For Chad's backfill (Sr Software Engineer)
- brainstorm ideas of what this should be
- plan a project around a common problem we have and metrics
- what does blubber do?
Needs attention
[edit]- Create a production test wiki in group0 to parallel Wikimedia Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616
- Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
- maintenance scripts
- databases
- dba to create the database
- restbase + parsoid + tons of things
- Chad and Sam were taking care of this in the past, but none of us know how to do it
- We don't really have a lot of time :(
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki
- Is this worth it? without traffic does this tell you anymore than you can get with targeted tests in beta?
- Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
- Upgrade gerrit to 2.15.3
- #together?
- Tyler and Mukunda
- will review process this week, schedule upgrade for end of this week or early next week
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]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates
- Next 3 weeks train in EU time
- Successful EU Train last week \o/
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Train status and happenings
[edit]- .13 blocked (3 blockers)
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]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 recent, delayed due to Sr position being first in the queue.
Other work
[edit]Selenium
[edit]- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
- fixed for Math
- failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
Gerrit =
[edit]Phabricator =
[edit]- Almost finished with improved antivandalism algorithm that scores individual edits and gives credit based on the user's history.
- Essentially users with edit history can make more edits before hitting the limit and edits which destroy the description of a task are scored much higher than adding or removing a single project.
QA
[edit]Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Quibble and per patch coverage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195918 (it is a mess)
- What I'm blocked on
- The world / life
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
- Address comments in review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/446704/
- Get review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/447005/
- T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
- What I'm blocked on
- Nada
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Get tech task and hiring moving for the Sr position
- Still want to make some changes to the Skill Matrix
- MW releases and Cindy meeting (to schedule)
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- vacation
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Deploy improved antivandalism in phabricator \o/
- Work on gerrit upgrade with Tyler
- Try to finish phabricator revert tool
- Finish elasticsearch 6 support in Phabricator
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Gerrit user plugin
- http://gerrit.tylercipriani.com:8080
- has ldap
- wmf-fixshadowuser - very close!
- helm test failing ci
- helm test thing
- Need to try to get helm test to dump resources manually
- review zuul.groovy
- Gerrit upgrade figuring
- Gerrit user plugin
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Moar train
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
- fixed for Math
- What I'm blocked on
- T188742 failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`
- 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...