Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180716

= 2018-07-16 =

Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * How to do it


 * July 16: Mukunda's bday.....funtimes
 * July 23-27: JR Vacation
 * August 15: WMF Monthly Holiday
 * August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
 * August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
 * August ~: Antoine
 * September a week or so - Antoine
 * Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani

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


 * July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July
 * July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko
 * July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljko <
 * July 23 - wmf.14 - Antoine
 * July 30 - wmf.15 - Antoine

SoS

 * July 04 - Dan
 * July 11 - Antoine
 * July 18 - Antoine <
 * July 25 - Zeljko
 * August 01 - Zeljko
 * August 08 - Dan
 * August 15 - Dan

Needs attention

 * Move Foundation Wiki to new URL when new Wikimedia Foundation website launches - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188776
 * I need a volunteer to help with this.
 * ETA is July 30th
 * greg ping brandon
 * pinged on Monday July 9th


 * Create a production test wiki in group0 to parallel Wikimedia Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616
 * Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
 * maintenance scripts
 * databases
 * dba to create the database
 * restbase + parsoid + tons of things
 * Chad and Sam were taking care of this in the past, but none of us know how to do it
 * We don't really have a lot of time :(
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki
 * Is this worth it? without traffic does this tell you anymore than you can get with targeted tests in beta?

Scrum of Scrums

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


 * James F. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/442126
 * CI patch reviewed by hashar/tyler


 * Moriel: UBN https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137 (help)
 * Forked to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199446 . Set of patches ready to review that should fix it for good.

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Need someone from SRE to merge the config for our new phabricator antivandalism extension: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/445329/
 * Blocking:
 * Updates
 * Next 3 weeks train in EU time
 * Successful EU Train last week \o/
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies

Last week

 * Blocking
 * TODO: thcipriani to deploy https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/442126/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198137
 * Closed, 3 different causes
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199446 -- maybe solved, needs review
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * European timezone appropriate MediaWiki Train window: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies

Train status and happenings

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

Past week status updates

 * All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4

Code Health

 * 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.
 * 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
 * Worked on this for Platform team - not very many currenty identified
 * T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
 * Reviewed existing workboards and deciding whether or not to work with existing approach or put one in place that's PEP-only.
 * T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.

Developer Productivity

 * Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.
 * Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. -

Selenium

 * Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
 * T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - nice progess, slow beause of train 🚂
 * Side effect: jobs get migrated to Docker containers
 * T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki - will be mostly resolved by previous task

Gerrit

 * thcipriani: Working on plugin for user management -- will fill task

QA

 * Spoke to Victoria/Toby last week and there's a desire to develop QA within the foundation. Started working/noodling on QA strategy/planning and discussion with EMs (EMs == Engineering Managers ???? )

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Blocker dropped to migrate BlueSpice* extensions to Quibble \o/
 * Drop support for Semantic* extensions. Does not match our CI model
 * (stretch goal): look at migrating the PHPUnit coverage jobs from Nodepool to Docker
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Out of time to migrate: wikidata-query-gui-build wikimedia-portals-build
 * Need a patch to Quibble to have it use --testsuite=extensions when triggered by mediawiki/core
 * Out of time to craft a patch that would prevent Quibble from running useless command (eg 'npm test' for each job)
 * Other?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
 * Helping with pipeline workboard triage
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Bike shed shapes/colors
 * Other?

Greg

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

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Continue work on Platform TD
 * QA Strategy/Planning
 * Kartographer case study
 * Setup PM for Phab(?)


 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Try to get someone to merge my phab antivandalism extension in operations/puppet
 * Continue work on a phab revert tool
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Need someone from SRE to merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/puppet/+/445329/
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Work with _Joe_ on canary draft setup doc for tomorrow
 * Work on user gerrit plugin, have a dev setup, built a plugin
 * More scap workboard triage
 * More deployment workboard triage
 * What I want help on
 * workboard triage
 * moving k8s to CI namespace
 * failing for CI namespace
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * train 🚂
 * T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests - nice progess, slow beause of train 🚂
 * T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki - will be mostly resolved by previous task
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T199647 PHPUnit tests fail for Scribunto
 * T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests - needed for T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
 * Other?
 * Updated docs, please review https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys/Deployers and https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys
 * Wikimedia Portals Update and European Mid-day SWAT at the same time? https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#deploycal-item-20180716T1100
 * France 🇫🇷 vs Croatia 🇭🇷 in finals, 4:2

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage

 * 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
 * Assigned
 * Unassigned

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