Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161128
2016-11-28[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
- Nov 30: Tyler: eye appointment 1:45pm -- may be useless afterwords (antoine: eyes are definitely useful, keep them)
- Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
- December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
- December 26-30: XMas Holiday
- January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
- January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
- January 9-11: Dev Summit
- January 12-13: All Hands
- January 16: MLK Jr Day
- February 20: President's Day
- March 13: New day off for some reason
- April 14: New day off for some reason
Team Business[edit]
Time spent spreadsheet[edit]
- week 47: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=15839968
- For those who took Thur/Fri off, remember that's an automatic 40% in the time off column :)
Rotating positions and absences[edit]
Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers
Nov 14 and Nov 21[edit]
- Train: Tyler
- wmf.3
- no wmf.4 this week, Thanksgiving
- SoS: Mukunda
- Out:
- November 18: Greg in Seattle at RELENG Conference/workshop - http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2016/html/index.html
- November 24+25: US Holiday (Thanksgiving)
- Antoine working as usual
Nov 28 and Dec 5[edit]
- Train: Chad
- SoS: Tyler
- Out:
- none
Dec 12 and Dec 19[edit]
- Train: Mukunda
- [ wmf.6]
- no train/deploys week of Dec 19
- SoS: Chad
- Out:
- none?
Dec 26 and Jan 2[edit]
- Train:
- No train/deploys week of Dec 26
- [ wmf.7]
- SoS:
- Out:
- Week of Dec 26th: Everyone
- Jan 2nd: New Year's Day observed
Actions from last meeting[edit]
- [Who?] Audit if any other projects than MW+Ext use gating
- Greg needs to make a timeline for some of the action items
- Started, at a very high level: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Planning
Scrum of Scrums[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
This week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html
Last week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- 1.28 this week!
Other Team Business[edit]
QA Hire[edit]
- continuing to do HM screens
- interviews ongoing with the rest of the loop
Q2 goal/project check-in[edit]
Future of CI plan[edit]
- Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.
- TODO today: Figure out how we want to describe this work in our quarterly goals
- Things to remember/account for:
- ci-staging
- jenkins 2.0
- migration to nodepool completion
- de-experimenting (maybe?) the docker based system
- Docker based CI POC has been mostly successful
(((Dan presented outcome of the Docker POC)))
Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1)[edit]
Use a unified git repo for MW deploys[edit]
Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW[edit]
Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing[edit]
Release MediaWiki 1.28[edit]
Non-Quarterly goal work[edit]
Browser tests[edit]
- T117418 Ensure chromedriver is installed (for Selenium)
- Chromedriver is installed on Jenkins slaves
- Antoine will make sure it is in PATH
Ruby[edit]
- T146292 Add helper to Selenium that allows you to query whether JavaScript module has loaded
- Waiting for review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/312047/
- Will release new version of the gem when merged
Node.js[edit]
- T150435 Selenium tests for VisualEditor in Node.js
- pairing weekly with Rummana
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- ported 6 very simple tests
- will probably not create more tests, but improve existing ones
- T151442 Research webdriver.io + T151443 Research nightwatchjs
- Managed to get it working without Java (on Chrome)
- Will test if it works with Firefox
Beta Cluster[edit]
Phabricator[edit]
- Turns out there is was no upload limit in phabricator.
- So now people are using it as a dump for video piracy.
- Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151544
DB Inconsistencies[edit]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )
People status updates[edit]
Antoine[edit]
Last week[edit]
- (week-end project) ElasticSearch/Kibana on CI for build logs
- POC done. TODO write about it somewhere.
- Ploticus/EasyTimeline this weeek
- skipped due toThanksgiving
- Nodepool quota to be bumped early this week. Labs needed clarifications.
- skipped due toThanksgiving
- Clone mw/core for the job running against operations/mediawiki-config (for dcausse/Erik B)
This week[edit]
- Nodepool quota to be bumped on Tuesday
Chad[edit]
Last week[edit]
- 1.28!
This week[edit]
Dan[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Continue hacking on proof of concept integration/docker instance(?)
- Improve scap target failure tolerance
This week[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Continue working on phabricator privilege separation: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146055
- Done, for the most part
- Help with scap release as needed
- Scrum of scrums
- eat food with family
- sleep?
- This took up a significant part of my weekend:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151228
- Not as bad as chad's saturday.
- Fixed git mirroring errors that I discovered in phabricator's logs - a bunch of repos were deleted from gerrit but left enabled in phabricator.
- The errors were causing a major slowdown in the queue which affected phabricator's git commit parsing.
- Will significantly improve import latency.
This week[edit]
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Line up next 2 scap releases
- CI staging
This week[edit]
Željko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- T108108 Improve documentation around running/writing (with lots of examples) browser tests
- pairing with Rummana on Node.js+Selenium tests for VisualEditor
- pairing with Elena on Ruby+Rspec tests for Echo API
- Senior QA Analyst hiring
This week[edit]
- T117418 Ensure chromedriver is installed (for Selenium)
- New release of mediawiki_selenium
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- T151442 Research webdriver.io
- T151443 Research nightwatchjs