Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180507

= 2018-05-07 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * May 7-11: Antoine, too many holidays in France that week
 * May 4-14: Dan (Barcelona)
 * May 10-14: Chad (family time)
 * May 15-17: Team offsite in Barcelona
 * May 18-21: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
 * May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
 * May 22: thcipriani -- recovery day
 * May 28 (Mon): Memorial Day (US Holiday)
 * 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


 * Apr 23 - 1.32.0-wmf.1 - Chad
 * Apr 30 - wmf.2 - Chad
 * May 07 - wmf.3 - Mukunda <
 * May 14 - wmf.4 - Mukunda
 * May 21 - wmf.5 - Mukunda
 * May 28 - wmf.6 - Tyler
 * June 04 - wmf.7 - Tyler
 * June 11 - wmf.8 - Chad
 * June 18 - wmf.9 - Chad
 * June 25 - wmf.10 - Mukunda
 * July 02 - wmf.11 - Mukunda

SoS

 * Apr 23 - Tyler
 * Apr 30 - Tyler
 * May 07 - Chad <
 * May 14 - Chad
 * May 21 - Chad
 * May 28 - Mukunda
 * June 04 - Mukunda
 * June 11 - Tyler
 * June 18 - Tyler
 * June 25 - Chad
 * July 02 - Chad

Updates

 * Q3 quarterly checkin slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZ10iUwquwQ93zUDF3DYoEcwKVG6GQ1A2sBWs0q6tng/edit#slide=id.g1651e065b0_0_555


 * Activity in Barcelona!
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qVmJ47UYatbjpwOvCgLgBKsp3Ntv0gZv1-NuhiDnjFM/edit?ts=5ad72c5e&pli=1#gid=0
 * A cooking class and La Sagrada Familia are tied

Scrum of Scrums

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

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Updates
 * Updates

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Announcing Quibble! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/99/introducing_quibble/
 * Updates
 * Announcing Quibble! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/99/introducing_quibble/

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

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

 * Migrate away from Nodepool -
 * Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) -
 * Add Composer support to Blubber -
 * Add Python/Tox support to Blubber -
 * Add Ruby/Gem/Bundler/Rake support to Blubber -

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

 * Broad role out of Code Stewardship model.
 * Update Maintainers/Developers page with currently known Code Stewards.
 * Use Code Stewardship review process to address gaps.
 * Deploy dashboard of Code Stewardship Coverage

Kicked off Q4 stewardship review cycle Met with CommTech team regarding the sunsetting of ReleaseSites extension.

Program 3: Outcome2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation

 * Roll out of technical debt reduction approaches.
 * Identify early adopter engineering teams to test approaches.

Setup TD engagement kickoff meeting with Platform team Setting up TD engagement kickopff meeting with Search Platform team

Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Prove viability of testing staged service containers alongside MediaWiki extension containers

 * Add Composer support to Blubber -
 * Small, standalone, MediaWiki containers built using Blubber
 * Limited scope with: Debian Stretch, php7, composer dependencies, Mariadb, Apache (or last two with standalone containers)
 * Build MW base containers upon branch cut at master branch point from core


 * Messing with Blubber/Composer and MediaWiki core but it's unclear how viable Composer-based dependency installation will be
 * Build ext specific containers using MW image as base

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:


 * git-lfs / swift storage backend for phab. Differential WIP patch: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1049

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Vacations and rest. I am exhausted after the Docker/quibble long sprint
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Migrating extensions to quibble https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183512 . There are lot of edge cases.
 * Jenkins latest LTS. 2.107 has some apparently nasty change ( https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/03/15/jep-200-lts/ https://jenkins.io/doc/upgrade-guide/2.107/ )
 * Other?
 * Looking forward to get Blubber to support MediaWiki!

Chad

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

Dan

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

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Offsite logistics and schedule, goal to share out by Thursday
 * JD writing
 * Quarterly Checkins (Wednesday (ours) and Friday)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Verify with Faidon re train/deploys next week (email out)
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * stewardship review discussions
 * prepare for Hack-a-thon TD session
 * Continue work on stewardship/code metrics


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

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train - wmf.3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191049
 * Try to finish phabricator swift backend - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1049 is nearly finished.
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Scap update, according to godog, hopefully tomorrow
 * Finish up open puppet patches
 * ready my burner laptop for travel
 * deployment-prep deployment server stuff https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192561#4183530
 * volunteer puppet compiler followup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192532
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * jenkins 2.107.3 LTS but uhhh https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191971
 * jenkins 2.107.3 LTS but uhhh https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191971

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js - see how it works with Quibble
 * T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - see how it works with Quibble
 * T193244 selenium-CirrusSearch-jessie does not run any tests - fixed, waiting for reviews
 * T191537 MediaWiki core's selenium tests flaky when run as part of mwext-mw-selenium-node-composer-jessie job - see how it works with Quibble
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T193883 `FATAL: java.io.IOException: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: ...build/screenshots.yml` for language-screenshots-VisualEditor - LanguageScreenshotBot does not want to run
 * Other?
 * beta-mediawiki-config-update-eqiad stuck in postmerge for hours https://integration.wikimedia.org/zuul/
 * T194032 Deal with recent surge in suspicious @aol.com subscriptions
 * T192395 Create Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bosnian Analysis Chains Using Serbian Morphological Libraries - done with word group reviews

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