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2019-07-01

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • July 2 - Greg's birthday, taking off half day, JR to take half day too in celebration of Greg's birthday (and Debbie's).
  • July 4 (US Independence Day) - US Staff
  • July 5 - thcipriani, Greg, JR vacation
  • July 5 - Lars off (swapping with weekend)
  • July 10 - Lars off (swapping with weekend)
  • July 22 - August 9 - Željko vacation
  • August 7–19 - James off (inc. Wikimania)
  • August 12 - September 8 - Dan leave
  • August 12 (Glorious Twelfth) - US Staff
  • August ??? - ??? - Antoine
  • August 14–18 - Wikimania
    • Attending: James, Lars, Jean-Rene
  • August 15 - Željko, Assumption of Mary
  • August 25 - September 4 - Brennen vacation
  • September 2 (Labor Day) - US Staff
  • October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day) - US Staff
  • November 11 (Veterans' Day) - US Staff
  • November 28–29 (Thanksgiving) - US Staff
  • December 6 - Lars, Finnish Independence Day
  • December 25–31 (Christmas) - US Staff
  • December 25–26 - Lars, Christmas
  • 2020 January 1 (New Year's Day) - US Staff, Lars

Rotating positions

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Train

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
  • June 24 - wmf.11 - Jeena (with Mukunda)
  • July 1 - wmf.12 - No train (Fourth of July)
  • July 8 - wmf.13 - Jeena
  • July 15 - wmf.14 - Lars (with Antoine)
  • July 22 - wmf.15 - Lars
  • July 29 - wmf.16 - Brennen (with Tyler)
  • Aug 5 - wmf.17 - Brennen
  • Aug 12 - wmf.18 - No Train (Wikimania)
  • Aug 19 - wmf.19 - Zeljko 😱
  • Aug 26 - wmf.20 - Zeljko 😭

SoS

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  • Zeljko 4eva! :)


Team Business

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Timespent spreadsheet

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For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week


Book club

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Fall Offsite + TechConf19

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  • First round invites went out


Annual Planning

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Changes to the meeting

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  • Turn into more of a real stand-up (see new section: What I did last week) so that we can answer most of the other questions (e.g. what is the team blocked on?) from those individual updates.
  • Might also move this meeting to not be on Monday, e.g. Thursday/Friday so the accuracy of "what I did this week" will be much higher.
  • Annual plan/etc. discussions will move into one-off meetings rather than crashing the stand-up.
  • Engineering Productivity won't meet as a whole each week. Sub-team meetings will continue (for RelEng and Performance) and be set up (for Q&T) :-) Annual planning managed by managers.
  • SoS managed… somehow?


Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '19 edition

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!


Incoming/Needs attention

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  • REL1_33 branching for extensions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220653
    • Reedy said he'll move forward with rc0 announcement soon.
    • Mukunda tried to run the script but it ran into trouble. Will re-try, manually.
    • Switching on HTTP Auth again still seems blocked. Barricade should help with this; review when Tyler gets back.
    • Update 2019-06-03: Fighting fires last; should be able to do this week.
    • Update 2019-06-10: Done with a quick hack by Reedy; do we need to fix the script for next time?
      • http auth patches merged in upstream, next week is the earliest it'll be released
    • Update 2019-06-17: Gerrit 2.15.14 is out, need to build and release, hopefully this week
    • 2019-07-01: Gerrit on 2.15.13 after a brief and glorious day



Scrum of Scrums

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Incoming from last week

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

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Release Engineering

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Callouts

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Train status and happenings

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


Quarterly Goals for Q4

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2018-19_Q4

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Undeploy the CodeReview extension.
WHO: James, need help from CPT
  • Blocked. James will ping CPT about this this week (April 8th)
    • … and again w/c 15 April.
    • … and again w/c 6 May (in SoS).
    • … and again w/c 27 May (in SoS).
    • [Recurring item]


TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Setup 1-3 of the CI WG options (Zuul v3, Argo, GitLab)
WHO: Lars
  • Gitlab:
    • https://wmf-gitlab3.vm.liw.fi/ is up and accepts registrations with wikimedia.org (and liw.fi) email addresses
    • Please play with it and tell Lars anything that seems iffy

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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GOAL: Instrument Quibble for data collection
WHO: Mukunda, Antoine
  • Blocked


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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GOAL: Create a graph where time is spent and make a prioritized list for improvements.
WHO: Mukunda, Antoine
  • Blocked

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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GOAL: Prepare the Deployment Pipeline for changes to our CI tooling.
WHO: ???, ???
  • Blocked by not having new CI tooling yet


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

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GOAL: Create a .pipeline/config.yaml standard to give users more control over how their tests are run in the pipeline and allow the easy saving of artifacts at pipeline completion. (RelEng)
WHO: Dan, Tyler, ???

Yes Done


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

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GOALS:
Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline - task T212801
Wikidata Termbox SSR, Kask for Session Storage Service, cpjobqueue (stretch), ORES (stretch)
WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars

There are tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220403

  • Wikidata Termbox SSR
    • Yes Done
  • Kask for Session Storage Service
    • Yes Done
  • cpjobqueue (stretch)
    • N Not done -> later

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL: Provide an "Official" Docker base image for local development of MediaWiki based on the production tooling.
WHO: Jeena, Brennen
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212449
  • Done for MediaWiki, for some values of "done" and "MediaWiki". Production-likeness needs considerable work.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 3

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GOALs: Presentation/session(s) at the Wikimedia Hackathon on the current state of Code Health projects (technical debt and code stewardship)
WHO: JR

Yes Done

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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GOAL:
Publish a re-imagination of the Review Queue process.
Develop and implement metrics around task and code-review responsiveness
WHO: Greg, JR (and Andre)
  • Review Queue
    • Blocked on Greg time
  • Task and code-review responsiveness metrics
    • No progress


= TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.2

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GOALs:
Expand SonarQube reporting into CI infrastructure
Perform SonarQube analysis on all extensions
Engage user communities in direct feedback solicitation
WHO: JR, Zeljko, Code Health Metrics


Other non-goal work

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Release MW 1.33

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  • Handed off to Reedy along with security releases.


Selenium

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Gerrit

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Phabricator

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  • git-ssh is finally fixed!

Jenkins

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QA/Code Health

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SCAP

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Standup!

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Antoine

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  • What I did last week
    • Quibble release, reviews etc
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Quibble review for parallelism. Clean up mess of jobs for mediawiki/* repos and multiple branches madness
    • Get contint1001 partition with SRE
    • stretch: look at Zuul phase out
    • Rebuild Jenkins instances for Stretch, less RAM and s/slave/agent/ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226233
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?

Brennen

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  • What I did last week
    • Attended MW dependency resolution discussion, CTO meet & greets
    • Advertised Docker SIG (without much success)
    • Worked on understanding pipelinelib, jjb, etc.

Turn pipeline stage steps into objects with run()/validate() methods

  • What I plan to do this week
    • pipelinelib config validation (and maybe some additions to docs)
    • Probably Add a builder script to mediawiki/core
    • Finish reading book
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?

Dan

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

Greg

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  • What I did last week
    • %&@!Q)!%^%
    • TechConf invitations
    • CTO meet and greets
    • Chatted with a new Comms person re internal communications
    • MW dependency meeting
  • What I plan to do this week
    • %^@()%*)@%
    • Half day on Tuesday, out Thur/Fri
    • Read
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?

James

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Jean-Rene

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  • What I did last week
    • Worked on various Code Stewardship Reviews
    • Attended as many CTO meet and greets as I could
    • scheduled Code Health Office hours - circular dependency
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Help role out more extensions into Code Health pipeline
    • prep for Code Health Office Hours and Code Health Code Review WG kickoff meeting
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Jeena

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  • What I did last week
    • Train
    • Book club
    • deployment-charts scaffold
  • What I plan to do this week
    • merge deployment-charts scaffold after reviews
    • move charts to deployment-charts
    • understanding beta cluster
    • local-charts stuff
    • Read book
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Lars

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  • What I did last week
    • Made some further updates to the CI architecture document. Published it. Asked for feedback via wikitech-l and Mastodon.
    • Meet and greet with two CTO candidates Rick Spencer and Graham Ingersoll.
    • Participated in the Docker SIG meeting. It was very short, and we kind of agreed it's not very useful.
    • Read chapter 13 of the CD book. Attended book club to discuss it.
    • Made some more concrete plans to build a CI/CD system for WMf around GitLab. For now, just a prototype, and the GitLab component might be replaced with another candidate later. Discussed them with Greg, Tyler, and James a bit.
    • Discussed MediaWiki development and testing, and possible CD with James. We'll be continuing this discussion.
    • Sketched a skeleton of an HTTP API for the new CI components. (Very simple, very easy, very much not performant; Python, bottle.py, signed JWT access tokens, haproxy, Let's Encrypt.) http://git.liw.fi/wmf-ci-arch/tree/api.py is anyone's curious.
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Implement at least the VCS worker component for the new CI prototype around GitLab.
    • Read book chapter 14.
    • Chat with James about MediaWiki and new CI.
    • Deployment Pipeline meeting on Thursday.
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?
    • Spencer > Ingersoll > Noteboom
    • I'll be away on Friday; I worked yesterday, Sunday, instead (lovely, quiet work day).


Mukunda

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Tyler

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Cannot assign user name "XXX" to account ####; name already in use. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216605
    • Merge Barricade remove lucene deps https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/519168/ + other barricade work
    • Clear error dashboard of gerrit (on the chance that one of these errors is our problem)
    • Email for pipeline cross-team meeting ( Thursday :( )
    • Stretch: blubber update
    • Stretch: pipeline docs touching (looks like
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?
    • Yes Done (thanks effie!) scap 3.10.0-1


Zeljko

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  • What I did last week
    • catching up
    • reading the book
  • What I plan to do this week
    • T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
    • T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki
    • T215178 Self-hosted SonarQube - check with Amir if he made any progress
    • T227009 selenium-daily-beta-Echo Jenkins job failing
    • Read the book
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?
    • Antoine: can we enable Sonar for more repos (related to CI)?
    • Tyler: can we add new Sonar Gerrit bot?
    • SoS notes
    • paperwork :| (start of the month)


Grooming

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Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

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Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)

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Kanban stats

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Burnup chart
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