Quality Assurance SIG/20171215

2017-12-15
Attendees: Elena, Anthony, JR, Erik

Elena:
 * Last deploy this week - caught a last minute bug.
 * Talked a bit about the cherry pick process in swat

Anthony:
 * Mostly business as usual
 * Changes in print styles (PDFs of our articles)
 * Apps are doing good. Isn't finding as many bugs in Android as in iOS
 * No real reason and not significantly different
 * Multimedia is progressing well.

JR:
 * ORES Post Mortem - https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171120-Ext:ORES
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20171120-Ext:ORES/minutes
 * If given a heads-up, Elena is able and willing to review ORES-Ext
 * Elena: Those that deploy should provide feedback on how to make deployments easier/better.
 * Elena will review the docs an provide any additional input.

Erik:
 * Migration from Ruby to NodeJS
 * Took a lot of work from multiple people to transition from Ruby vs NodeJS
 * Intermitten failures have increased
 * Sharing states is diffiuclt with NodeJS implementation. Needed to create another process to track states.
 * Use code retouines or the latest version of NodeJS.
 * Still using cucumber, that seemed to transition pretty well.
 * 2 months at 40-60% of 2 engineers.
 * Roled out machine learned ranking model.
 * Rolled out to more Wikis this month