Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180312

= 2018-03-12 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * Mar 12-16 (week): Greg vacation
 * Mar 26-29 (week since WMF holiday Fri): thcipriani vacation
 * Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
 * April 2: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Easter Monday)
 * Apr 3-13: Greg vacation
 * April 16 (Mon): WMF Holiday
 * May 1: Željko (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: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)

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


 * 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

 * 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

Updates

 * Greg's on vacation this week :)

Scrum of Scrums

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

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Scoring platform release of scap 3.8 (I think mukunda tagged that, but I'll double check)
 * Blocked
 * SRE: Minikube packaging stuff https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184457
 * Updates
 * 1.31.0-wmf.25 going out this week, if you see blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183964
 * greg is out this week, FYI
 * Quarterly goal dependency update:
 * Continue improving the ways that users can download articles of interest for later consumption
 * Reading Web: Tech Ops/RelEng
 * Update:

Last week
1.31.0-wmf.25 going out this week, if you see blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183964
 * Blocking
 * None?
 * Blocked
 * None
 * Updates
 * None

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/201718Q3

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

 * 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:


 * T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - done in core, waiting for reviews, needs to be done in extensions
 * T188744 Find a few people interested in reviewing Selenium patches - done, found a few people :)
 * T181284 Replace nodemw with mwbot - done in core, waiting for reviews, needs to be done in one extension

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

 * Goals
 * Draft requirements for a Kubernetes based solution for CI -
 * Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) -
 * Will be worked on after the long tail
 * Unify production and CI docker image build process -
 * ✅ 01/15

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

 * Due: End of quarter

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

 * Due: End of quarter

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))

 * Due: End of next quarter

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

 * 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

uhhhh

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

 * workboard

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator

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

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Docker migration still ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T187797 )
 * Fill tasks for remaining blockers
 * POC for MediaWiki
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Some repos tests failling
 * MediaWiki testing is not that trivial
 * Other?
 * Gerrit plugins
 * https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/blue/

Chad

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train
 * Rebuild its-phabricator plugin for Gerrit, fixes security issue
 * Making a list of gerrit plugins I *want* to deploy, rather than just vaguely dumping crap on IRC from time to time
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Nothing?
 * Other?
 * Logstash in beta issue?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Needs Review http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D999 Allow for configuration policies
 * Needs Review http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1002 Fix ownership on artifact copies
 * Needs Review http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1003 Provide a `runs.insecurely` for liberal file ownership
 * Needs Revisionhttp://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D993 Provide a CONTRIBUTING.md guide
 * Help with incident reviews
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Nothing
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Be on vacation
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Going on vacation
 * Other?
 * Nothing, he's on vacation

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * incident reviews
 * stewardship planning and review
 * Blog posts
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Review Incident reports
 * Code review
 * Testing for Phabricator 7.2 upgrade
 * More work on swift for phabricator git-lfs
 * scap + git-lfs
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * help review incident reports
 * pipeline proposal work
 * dan code revew
 * What I'm blocked on
 * minikube packaging
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T180144 Upgrade WebdriverIO to 4.9
 * T187859 Move one Selenium tests from mediawiki/core to mediawiki/skins/Vector
 * T185011 Create selenium-MediaWiki-jessie daily Jenkins job
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - done in core, waiting for reviews
 * T181284 Replace nodemw with mwbot - done in core, waiting for reviews
 * Other?
 * T188744 Find a few people interested in reviewing Selenium patches - resolved but you can still join the fun! ;)
 * T184732 LanguageScreenshotBot uploads files to Commons without a license - almost done

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