Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180709

= 2018-07-09 =

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

Antoine on vacations in August, could use a switch with Dan ?

Team Business
...October Offsite?

October in Portland

 * Pros:
 * Next to TechConf
 * Greg's flight covered
 * Cons:
 * Early in the fiscal year
 * Greg has a 2 week long trip

November in Cheap east coast city

 * Pros
 * No double length trips for anyone
 * Cons
 * Independent, no cost savings, but that's probably OK
 * Still kinda early in the fiscal year

January in SF/Bay area

 * Pros
 * Next to AllHands
 * Flights are covered
 * Right before/during Annual Planning
 * Cons
 * Right before/during Annual Planning
 * Long trip (1.5 - 2 weeks) for most people
 * Maybe there's a Tech All Hands happening making this worse?

Needs attention

 * Running scap sync-dir php-1.32.0-wmf.10 fails due to syntax error - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198422
 * tyler


 * Formalise and Announce REL1_29 EOL - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197669
 * Need someone to help discussion with Cindy and torch passing to Platform Team
 * greg


 * MFA for Github
 * wmfgerrit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198822
 * wmfphab: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198823
 * either ssh or tokens
 * Jenkins....
 * This was for enabling two-factor on Jenkins, not for bots/jenkins reaching out to github
 * Discuss best solution....
 * seeds in releng-secrets


 * 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

Scrum of Scrums

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

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * European timezone appropriate MediaWiki Train window: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * European timezone appropriate MediaWiki Train window: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-July/090287.html
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies

Last week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Updates
 * 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

Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context

 * Started jenkins patch on top of Dan's work for deploying/tagging
 * Dan's work on pipelinelib continues
 * Big list of services to move: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198901

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
 * T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
 * 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. -


 * nothing really happened last week

Selenium

 * Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
 * T193088 Avoid importing core's selenium/pageobjects files using relative paths - resolved by Timo, some cleanup needed (T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki)
 * T188742 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie for all repositores with Selenium tests - in progress
 * T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - in progress, changes to Quibble needed (T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests)
 * T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side - in progress, will be resolved by T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI)

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Pair up with Zeljko on train deployment to warmup/assist
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finish refactoring integration/config service-pipeline code as shared libs (integration/pipelinelib)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * My own tendencies to over-abstract
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * remove non-quarterly goal related tasks from backlog of releng-kanban
 * ask joel/deb what the plan is re a tech all hands in Jan
 * ping lynette re what the hell that means
 * ping Brandon re foundation wiki url changes
 * Iterate my PDP with annual review feedback
 * reivew WMCS reject applicants
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jean-Rene
(aka NotChingachgook)
 * What I plan to do this week
 * Breakout Annual/Quarterly plans into Tasks
 * Search Platform and Core Platform tech debt
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Working on phabricator antivandalism extension: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/phabricator-ava/
 * Fix up the phabricator github credentials for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198823
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Gerrit saga continues: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=9256#c23
 * Some groovy writing on top of dan's patch
 * Triage scap/Deployment Pipeline workboard a touch
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train 🚂
 * T193088 Avoid importing core's selenium/pageobjects files using relative paths - resolved by Timo, some cleanup needed (T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki)
 * T188742 Run selenium-EXTENSION-jessie for all repositores with Selenium tests - in progress
 * T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI - in progress, changes to Quibble needed (T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests)
 * T190710 Minerva Ruby and Node.js browser tests running side by side - in progress, will be resolved by T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T199116 Quibble should run `npm install` and `npm run selenium-test` for each extension/skin that has Selenium tests - blocking T179190 (Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI) (Antoine)
 * Not sure what my code-health related task for Q1 is 🤔 (Greg)
 * Other?
 * Croatia in semi-finals!!11!11 🇭🇷⚽️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#Semi-finals

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