Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180813
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2018-08-13
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- August 13-24: Greg vacation
- August 14: thcipriani birthday, buy him something nice
- August 15 (Wednesday): WMF Monthly Holiday
- August 15-17 (Wednesday-Friday): Željko holiday+vacation
- August 16-17 (Thursday & Friday): Mukunda likes 5 day weekends
- August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
- August ~: Antoine
- August 29-31: Dan vacation
- September a week or so - Antoine
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 (No train - Wednesday is a holiday) <----
- Aug 20 - wmf.18 - Tyler
- Aug 27 - wmf.19 - Dan
- Sep 03 - wmf.20 - Tyler
- 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 - Zeljko
- Aug 15 - Dan (probably not SoS because it's a WMF holiday?) <----
- 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]- waiting to hear back confirmation from Travel but... I was told that no more offsites can be scheduled next to TechConf in Portland in October, so the week of Nov 5th it is.
Needs attention
[edit]- Create a production test wiki in group0 to parallel Wikimedia Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616
- Status: Mark H and Amanda reached out to me, I asked for a meeting with Mark H.
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:
- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- 1.32.0-wmf.13, 9 blockers, feedback needed for all of them: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180717-Train
- 1.32.0-wmf.14, 6 blockers, feedback needed for 2 of them: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180724-Train
- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- Updates
- Blubber test
- Code health working group -- join up!
- Quarterly cross-dependencies
Last week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- 1.32.0-wmf.13, 9 blockers, feedback needed for all of them: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180717-Train
- 1.32.0-wmf.14, 6 blockers, feedback needed for 2 of them: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180724-Train
- Feedback needed from various teams (too many to name each one) on two recent MediaWiki train related incident reports. Specifically, how problems could have been prevented.
- Updates
- 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 Q1
[edit]Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context
[edit]- Generic blubber job working
- Generic test entrypoint for dogfooding
- refactoring in blubber for pipelinelib
- Still needs KUBECONFIG for pipelinelib
- Instance relabeling
- Now that we have more things running in containers it broadens the tools to available agents
- Instances all tagged "blubber"
- moving blubber.yaml in mathoid
- merging the pipeline stuff for ci namespace
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.
- started adding to the PM process in prep for pending train PMs
- 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
- continued reviewing platform TD
- T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
- T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.
- started forming working group
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
Other work
[edit]Selenium
[edit]- Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
- T193157 Quibble does not install ffmpeg - patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/quibble/+/451645
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
- T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki
- T185011 Create selenium-MediaWiki-jessie daily Jenkins job
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
Gerrit =
[edit]Phabricator =
[edit]- Finally deployed antivandalism with notifications for banned accounts. I had to tune the parameters just a bit to get things right but I believe that it's working well now.
- \o/
Jenkins
[edit]QA
[edit]- completed discussion with EMs re QA strategy
Standup!
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Support for `KUBECONFIG=` in integration/pipelinelib
- Review/merge service-pipeline change for using ci k8s namespace
- Refactoring service-pipeline job to use integration/pipelinelib
- What I'm blocked on
- Nada. Thanks for the reviews!
- Other?
Greg
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Be on Vacation
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- setup PMs for trains
- setup Train retrospective
- continue work on QA strat
- prep for Code Health Metrics WG
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Get caught back up on gerrit upstream
- Re-Prioritize my assigned tasks and figure out where to go from here.
- Write an email update about phabricator antivandalism efforts.
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/451688/3 w/dan
- gerrit plugin (last week didn't have time)
- pretend to be greg
- review interview tests
- review T193157 Quibble does not install ffmpeg - patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/quibble/+/451645
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko
[edit]- What I plan to do this week
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC13:_Code_Health/Goals#Outcome_2_/_Output_2.2
- Review existing e2e test coverage.
- Define prioritization scheme.
- Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
- T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
- T193157 Quibble does not install ffmpeg - patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/quibble/+/451645
- T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
- T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki
- T185011 Create selenium-MediaWiki-jessie daily Jenkins job
- Review received feedback for incident reports
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC13:_Code_Health/Goals#Outcome_2_/_Output_2.2
- What I'm blocked on
- T193157 Quibble does not install ffmpeg - patch needs review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/quibble/+/451645
- Other?
- Wikimedia Portals Update and European Mid-day SWAT windows overlap, example: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Monday,_August_13
- I hate Gerrit's silent (merge confict) message when +2ing something - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196910
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...