Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180219

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2018-02-19[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • Feb 2nd: Mukunda vacation day
  • Feb 19 (Mon): President's Day (All US Staff)
  • Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
  • April 2: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Easter Monday)
  • April 14 (Fri): WMF Holiday
  • May 1: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day)
  • May 15?/16/17: Team offsite in Barcelona
  • May 18-20: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
  • May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
  • May 31: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)

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
  • Feb 19 - wmf.22 - Mukunda
  • Feb 26 - wmf.23 - Tyler
  • Mar 05 - wmf.24 - Tyler
  • Mar 12 - wmf.25 - Chad
  • Mar 19 - wmf.26 - Chad
  • Mar 26 - wmf.27 - Mukunda
  • Apr 02 - wmf.28 - Mukunda
  • Apr 09 - wmf.29 - Tyler
  • Apr 16 - wmf.30 - Tyler

SoS[edit]

  • Feb 19 - Chad
  • Feb 26 - Mukunda
  • Mar 05 - Mukunda
  • Mar 12 - Tyler
  • Mar 19 - Tyler
  • Mar 26 - Chad
  • Apr 02 - Chad
  • Apr 09 - Mukunda
  • Apr 16 - Mukunda

Team Business[edit]

Updates[edit]

Mid-year check-ins[edit]

A basic check-in: Go over what we hoped we'd do when we talked back for annual review

Then, the outline from T&C:

  • Celebrate accomplishments (highs):
  • What can we learn from (lows):
  • What goals or projects have been completed? What went well, what could have been better?
  • What goals/responsibilities are still ahead? Is any support needed to help get them done? Does any work need to be adjusted (due to departmental/organizational change)?
  • Any peer feedback wanted or given? (Feel free to do this casually via email or conversation.)
    • [Greg: Let me know if anyone wants to do some kind of "ask your peers for feedback", I can set something up.]

Please come prepared to talk about those items; I'll be filling out a document we can look at during the meeting, just for our records. They are not shared with T&C (they will only be checking in with managers to verify the check-ins happened, not what the content was).


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]

  • Blocking
    • None?
  • Blocked
  • Updates

Last week[edit]

  • Blocking
    • None?
  • Blocked
    • None
  • Updates
    • None


Train status and happenings[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor
  • wmf.21 was mostly uneventful, howver, there is some logspam left over from the past few weeks which still needs to get cleaned up.
    • Some of the cleanup is currently in-progress and I will tackle more of it with wmf.22


Past week status updates[edit]

All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3

Quarterly Goals[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack[edit]

Due: End of this quarter
What: Specific improvements to the now canonical framework, see: task T182421, notably:
Upgrade webdriverIO to version 4.9
Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot
Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
Task: task T182421
  • T186724 Trouble running selenium tests inside of mediawiki-vagrant
    • fixed the problem, updated documentation
  • T185315 selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job should have e-mail notification
    • created patch, waiting for review
  • T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests
    • created patch for mediawiki-core, something is wrong - ERROR: Unexpected token import

Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure[edit]

Goals
Draft requirements for a Kubernetes based solution for CI - task T183513
Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
Unify production and CI docker image build process - task T177276
Yes Done 01/15



Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans[edit]

Due: End of quarter
task T174091
  • created summary of Q3's items under review and sent to Toby and Victoria
  • Scheduled review meeting with Toby and Victoria


Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation[edit]

Due: End of quarter
task T174095
  • worked on Avoiding Technical Debt blog post, ETA 2/21

Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))[edit]

Due: End of next quarter
task T174096
  • no progress

Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline[edit]

Due: End of this quarter
Keyword: SSD
phab project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
Goal:
Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
Functional PoC within integration in the deployment-pipeline
Deploy to isolated k8s

Quaterly non-goal "Work"[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)[edit]

workboard


Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator[edit]

Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085

Other work[edit]

  • scheduled post mortem for non-train MediaWiki incident
  • followed up with Daniel re Review Queue process, however he's out on vacation until later this week.

Standup![edit]

Antoine[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Migrate more long tail of Docker jobs
    • Fill tasks for jobs that I am blocked on
    • Polish up a patch for Zuul with Tyler (re int != string)
  • What I'm blocked on
    • E_NOTIME :-(( to review Dan patch for Blubber/tox support
  • Other?


Chad[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • More helm/MW/Docker investigations
    • Some docroot/mw-config cleanup
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Nothing?
  • Other?
    • Zoran has been unblocked from Gerrit. Please be on the lookout for poor behavior.


Dan[edit]


Greg[edit]

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


Jean-Rene[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Avoiding technical debt blog post
    • updating Stewrdship Reviews process (actually did this yesterday)
    • Update stewardship reviews page to include calendar of coming events/timelines
    • Logstash review (carry over from last week)
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Mukunda[edit]


Tyler[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Review pip/python support for blubber
    • finish minikube packaging
    • finish zuul patches
    • start on some puppet work for verify pipeline step
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Zeljko[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • T180144 Upgrade WebdriverIO to 4.9
    • T181284 Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot
    • T182691 Selenium tests should be easier to run
    • T182692 Document differences between Ruby and Node.js Selenium frameworks
    • T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests
  • What I'm blocked on
    • T183456 Continuous integration for mediawiki-vagrant
      • The box 'debian/stretch64' could not be found
  • Other?

Grooming[edit]

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage[edit]


Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)[edit]


Kanban stats[edit]

Burnup chart
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