2018-11-05

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

November 8-9 - Dan vacation in Mexico City 🇲🇽🌮🎉
November 12th - Holiday (Veteran's Day, Observed)
November 22+23 - Holidays (Thanksgiving)
November 25-december 2nd: Mukunda vacation (in California ahead of the offsite)
Week of December 3rd - Team offsite
December 24-28 - Holidays (Christmas)

Rotating positions

Train

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R

Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Dan (No train due to DC switchover)
Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda (warning, TechConf happening, ping Greg if you need responses from anyone there...)
Oct 29 - wmf.2 - Tyler
Nov 05 - wmf.3 - Tyler <----
Nov 12 - wmf.4 - Antoine
Nov 19 - wmf.5 - No Train (Thanksgiving)
Nov 26 - wmf.6 - Antoine
Dec 03 - wmf.7 - No Train (Offsite)
Dec 10 - wmf.8 - Zeljko
Dec 17 - wmf.9 - Zeljko
Dec 24 - wmf.10 - No Train (Holiday break)
Dec 31 - wmf.11 - No Train (Holiday break)
Jan 07 - wmf.12 - Dan
Jan 14 - wmf.13 - Dan
Jan 21 - wmf.14 - Mukunda
Jan 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands)
Feb 04 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
Feb 11 - wmf.17 - Tyler
Feb 18 - wmf.18 - Tyler
Feb 25 - wmf.19 - Antoine

SoS

Oct 10 - Zeljko
Oct 17 - Zeljko
Oct 24 - Zeljko
Oct 31 - Zeljko
Nov 07 - Zeljko <----
Nov 14 - Zeljko
Nov 21 - Zeljko
Nov 28 - Zeljko
Dec 05 - Zeljko
Dec 12 - Zeljko
Dec 19 - Zeljko
Dec 26 - Zeljko
Jan 02 - Zeljko
Jan 09 - Zeljko
Jan 16 - Zeljko
Jan 23 - Zeljko
Jan 30 - Zeljko
Feb 06 - Zeljko
Feb 13 - Zeljko
Feb 20 - Zeljko
Feb 27 - Zeljko

Team Business

Hiring

Software Engineer position open and reviewing/hiring for now
- https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1225258

update....

December Offsite

Details:

Week of December 3rd
At the Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach
Deb T will be facilitating

Topics!

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEng-Offsite-201811-Topics
Deb and I talked on Friday, she is starting to get the schedule in place.

REMINDER: Deadline to book travel is Nov 8th!

All Hands

Registration: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2019/Registration
- Needed for everyone
- NOTE: There's a way to request a hotel room for semi-local people (commutes longer than 1.5 hours)

Needs attention

gerrit security release 2018-10-08
- https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/repo-discuss/eH0iLt2XawU
- jGit update, we are unaffected
- may want to hold off until next week: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=9836
- 2018-10-15 -- paladox tells me they're working on a fix and should have a 2.15.6 tagged Soon™
- 2018-10-22 -- jGit updated to fix leaks https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/201273
- 2018-10-29 -- 2.15.6 released: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/repo-discuss/9EUYI2eyIZM
  - thcipriani: Will send email today to update on...Wednesday? Anyone wanna work on this with me?
  - Antoine to pair, and be point next time
- 2018-11-05: built and testing https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/software/gerrit/+/471758/-1..1

deploy1001:/srv/mediawiki out of date?
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207602
- Found because the Security team noticed that a previously deployed security patch was no longer deployed, should sync up with them this week about that (Reedy or Brian)
- See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207600
- 2018-10-22: no idea, thcipriani will look, I guess
- 2018-10-29: scap updated, needs release this week
- 2018-11-05:
  - Need to poke Reedy re:T207600
  - scap still needs release - mukunda will take care of it

deployment-prep region migration
- See email with same subject on releng@lists
- Question: incrementally or not?
  - looks like "however Andrew wants to do it"
  - REMINDER: send an email update to wikitech-l@/qa@ with the planned timeline/outage
  - 2018-10-29: ACTION: Tyler to reply saying "take it away, andrew, and when are you going to do it?"
  - 2018-11-05: Email response Done -- blocking task from Krenair https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101 -- Dan and Mukunda graciously volunteered ;)

Scrum of Scrums

Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

Incoming from last week

Blocking:

Outgoing this week (wrong section heading is on purpose for copy/pasting into Scrum of Scrums etherpad

Release Engineering

Blocked by:
Blocking:
Updates:
- Train Health:
  - Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.2 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206656
    - wmf.2 was late last week due to an odd HHVM issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208549
  - This week: 1.33.0-wmf.3 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206657
  - Next week:
- Log Health:
- Code Health:

Callouts

Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

OMG discussion on how to do incident reporting and analysis better
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208632
- mukunda to make some comments

Quarterly Goals for Q2

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

GOAL: Release MediaWiki 1.32

WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

GOAL: Determine the procedure and requirements for an automated MediaWiki branch cut.

WHO: Mukunda, Tyler, Antoine

Created a bunch of subtasks of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156445 for automating release
- most are needed for MW Branch cut as well as release automation

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

GOAL: Formalize the collection of CI infrastructure and tooling metrics

WHO: Dan, Antoine

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

GOAL: Develop set of metrics to assess incident reports/post mortems - task T206622

WHO: Greg, Zeljko

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AUqMgzThBHNL7DgI8C9PO_YQ1oD5CSd0iWvcVbowzdg/edit#gid=1154483822

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

GOALS:

Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline - task T205919

Migrate graphoid to the Deployment pipeline

Deploy zotero v2 to the Deployment pipeline

Deploy blubberoid

WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars

Lars, Dan, and thcipriani had a pairing session Friday to move Blubberoid forward

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 2 / Output 2.1

GOAL: The Annual Developer Productivity Survey results are synthesized and shared, creating a first year baseline.

WHO: Mukunda, Greg

This is finally sent out and we've already gotten a lot of (IMO useful) responses.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

GOAL: Update/refresh review queue (review process for initial code deployment)

WHO: JR

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.2

GOAL: 5 of the 15 prioritized repositories have at least 1 end-to-end test - task T206621

WHO: Zeljko

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

GOAL: Assess Platform unit test practices and define improvement plan

WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

GOAL: Core Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC

WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.4

GOALs:

Identify key Tech Debt areas

Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP

WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.1

GOAL: Metrics defined and deployed for all 4 Code Health areas.

WHO: JR, Code Health Metrics Working Group

Other work

Selenium

Gerrit

Phabricator

Jenkins

QA

SCAP

Standup!

Antoine

Relocated Wikibase client job ready to migrate to Docker. Repo one gotta wait and see why scope is so different

What I plan to do this week
- Look at Wikibase repo
- Java 8 security update fall outs? Probably want to upgrade CI container
What I'm blocked on
- DonationInterface migration pending on fundraising
Other?

Dan

What I plan to do this week
- Write a blog post about October 2018 CI build data analysis
  - Working title: "It's a zombie party: bring in 'da noise, bring in defunct"
  - Analysis: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-HLTy8Z4OqatLnufFEszbqkS141MBXJNEPZQScDD1hQ/edit?usp=sharing
- Still prometheus-ing
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Greg

What I plan to do this week
- catch up on l10nupdate follow-ups
- follow-up from TechConf program committee (cleaning/sanitzing notes and posting to wiki mostly)
- a quick pass through any remaining updates to the onboarding process/task structure (incorporate learnings from Lars')
What I'm blocked on
- dunno?
Other?
- dunno?

Jean-Rene

What I plan to do this week
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Lars

What I plan to do this week
- Delivery pipeline architecture diagram to understand what the goal and status quo is.
- Find and read existing delivery pipeline code. (thcipriani: in integration/config)
- Study Kanban boards.
What I'm blocked on
- Lack of superbrain
Other?
- Nada

Mukunda

What I plan to do this week
- Get the lastest scap deb released
- keyholder review
- I didn't get the MW 1.32.0-rc1 tarball done last week, get that done this week for sure
- (with Dan) Fix beta cluster static IPs for transition to the new cloud region
- Outline proposal for incident report forms
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Tyler

What I plan to do this week
- Train
- Gerrit
- Fundraising CI job
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Zeljko

What I plan to do this week
- T199133 Find top 15 target projects that could use Selenium tests to prevent incidents
What I'm blocked on
Other?

Grooming

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

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...

Kanban stats

Burnup chart