Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20181126

= 2018-11-26 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * November 25-december 2nd: Mukunda vacation (in California ahead of the offsite)
 * November 30: Greg off
 * Week of December 3rd - Team offsite
 * Friday's in December: Greg off
 * December 24-28 - Holidays (Christmas)

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


 * Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Dan (No train due to DC switchover)
 * Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
 * Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda (warning, TechConf happening, ping Greg if you need responses from anyone there...)
 * Oct 29 - wmf.2 - Tyler
 * Nov 05 - wmf.3 - Tyler
 * Nov 12 - wmf.4 - Antoine
 * Nov 19 - wmf.5 - No Train (Thanksgiving)
 * Nov 26 - wmf.6 - Antoine <
 * Dec 03 - wmf.7 - No Train (Offsite)
 * Dec 10 - wmf.8 - Zeljko
 * Dec 17 - wmf.9 - Zeljko
 * Dec 24 - wmf.10 - No Train (Holiday break)
 * Dec 31 - wmf.11 - No Train (Holiday break)
 * Jan 07 - wmf.12 - Dan
 * Jan 14 - wmf.13 - Dan
 * Jan 21 - wmf.14 - Mukunda
 * Jan 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands)
 * Feb 04 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
 * Feb 11 - wmf.17 - Tyler
 * Feb 18 - wmf.18 - Tyler
 * Feb 25 - wmf.19 - Antoine

SoS

 * Zeljko for ever :)

December Offsite
Details:
 * Week of December 3rd
 * At the Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach
 * Deb T will be facilitating
 * Topics!
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEng-Offsite-201811-Topics

Activity decision: Both the Aquarium of the Pacific and the USS Iowa on Friday.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_(BB-61)
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium_of_the_Pacific

All Hands

 * Registration: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2019/Registration
 * Needed for everyone
 * NOTE: There's a way to request a hotel room for semi-local people (commutes longer than 1.5 hours)

OMG Surveys

 * Engagement survey
 * Please take it! :) You should have an email from "Culture Amp".
 * DO TODAY!


 * Internal Support for Open Source Software
 * Survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1Ojwuii3rgtawuN
 * Announcement: https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forum/#!topic/foundation-optional/N5y0xCHnmYY

Incoming Triage/Needs attention

 * deploy1001:/srv/mediawiki out of date?
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207602
 * Found because the Security team noticed that a previously deployed security patch was no longer deployed, should sync up with them this week about that (Reedy or Brian)
 * See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T207600
 * 2018-10-22: no idea, thcipriani will look, I guess
 * 2018-10-29: scap updated, needs release this week
 * 2018-11-05:
 * Need to poke Reedy re:T207600
 * scap still needs release - mukunda will take care of it
 * 2018-11-19:
 * Poked Reedy re:T207600
 * Scap 3.8.9-1 running in beta
 * 2018-11-26: thcipriani to file a task


 * deployment-prep region migration
 * See email with same subject on releng@lists
 * Question: incrementally or not?
 * looks like "however Andrew wants to do it"
 * REMINDER: send an email update to wikitech-l@/qa@ with the planned timeline/outage
 * 2018-10-29: ACTION: Tyler to reply saying "take it away, andrew, and when are you going to do it?"
 * 2018-11-05: Email response ✅ -- blocking task from Krenair https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208101 -- Dan and Mukunda graciously volunteered ;)
 * 2018-11-19: squeeze in the migration this week? Yes. Mukunda to work on that with Andrew and use paring with Tyler to discuss any breakages.
 * 2018-11-26: Project beta-update-databases-eqiad build #30047: STILL FAILING in 1.5 sec: https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/beta-update-databases-eqiad/30047/
 * Error: your composer.lock file is not up to date. Run "composer update --no-dev" to install newer dependencies
 * Tyler to file a task ^ and Dan to look into it more deeply.


 * Migrate the Integration cloud project to eqiad1-r
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208803
 * 2018-11-12: Need a point person to work with Andrew on this
 * 2018-11-19: Tyler and Andrew migrated a few, no issues so far. integration-publishing migrated. castor02 can be migrated the same ways as other slaves, culprit might happen see task for details.
 * 2018-11-26: Need to migrate `castor` tomorrow morning.


 * Migrate the contintcloud cloud project to eqiad1-r
 * Nodepool stopped on Thursday. Antoine asked for project to be deleted.

Scrum of Scrums

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

Incoming from last week

 * Blocking: nothing...

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health:
 * Last week: No train due to the Thanksgiving Holiday
 * This week: 1.33.0-wmf.6 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206660
 * Next week: No train due to the Release Engineering team offsite
 * Log Health:
 * Code Health:
 * Log Health:
 * Code Health:

Callouts

 * Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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


 * nothing new here

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Release MediaWiki 1.32
 * WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)


 * 2018-11-05: Mukunda to release MediaWiki 1.32 RC.0
 * rc.0 Done
 * rc.1 did not happen before Mukunda's vacation.
 * should get release out week of Dec 10th

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Determine the procedure and requirements for an automated MediaWiki branch cut.
 * WHO: Mukunda, Tyler, Antoine


 * 2018-11-26: mukunda + tyler to paired on deploy notes

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

 * GOAL: Formalize the collection of CI infrastructure and tooling metrics
 * WHO: Dan, Antoine

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

 * GOAL: Develop set of metrics to assess incident reports/post mortems -
 * WHO: Greg, Zeljko

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

 * GOALS:
 * Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline -
 * Migrate graphoid to the Deployment pipeline
 * Deploy zotero v2 to the Deployment pipeline
 * Deploy blubberoid
 * WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars


 * Zotero deployed \o/
 * Graphoid blubber file merged, thcipriani to create image

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 2 / Output 2.1

 * GOAL: The Annual Developer Productivity Survey results are synthesized and shared, creating a first year baseline.
 * WHO: Mukunda, Greg


 * Greg will try to do some summarization this week

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Update/refresh review queue (review process for initial code deployment)
 * WHO: JR


 * Continue work on this.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.2

 * GOAL: 5 of the 15 prioritized repositories have at least 1 end-to-end test -
 * WHO: Zeljko


 * Željko will send e-mails to teams this week

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

 * GOAL: Assess Platform unit test practices and define improvement plan
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


 * No activity last week due to reschedule of meeting with CPT.
 * Meeting with CPT team this week.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

 * GOAL: Core Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


 * No activity last week due to reschedule of meeting with CPT.
 * Meeting with CPT team this week.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.4

 * GOALs:
 * Identify key Tech Debt areas
 * Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


 * No activity last week due to reschedule of meeting with CPT.
 * Meeting with CPT team this week.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.1

 * GOAL: Metrics defined and deployed for all 4 Code Health areas.
 * WHO: JR, Code Health Metrics Working Group


 * Work continued on setting up reporting integration into gerrit.
 * Started work on broadening SonarQube usage to other languages (first pass was Java projects in Search Platform).

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcume 2 / Output 2.3

 * GOAL: Outline options for managing incident reports creation, follow-ups, and analysis
 * WHO: Greg, Mukunda, Zeljko
 * Task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208632

QA/Code Health

 * Code Health Group met this past week. Primary discussion was regarding Code Reviews.  Andre and JR to form a WG to look into challenges surrounding Code Reviews.

SCAP

 * thcipriani: need to talk about canary things

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * MediaWiki Train
 * Castor migration to new WMCS region
 * Help polish up Docker container/Jenkins job for SonarQube scanner (some magic reporter for code quality)
 * CI overhaul and basic presentation before offsite
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Heating fixed at house. Gotta fix electricity and draw wood cabinets
 * Heating fixed at house. Gotta fix electricity and draw wood cabinets

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Checking out beta database update issue
 * Blubber openapi spec
 * Prometheus integration server
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Blubber json config refactor
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Greg will try to do some summarization of the Dev Satisfaction survey this week
 * Finish up the offsite agenda with Deb (on Wednesday)
 * Print some keysigning party slips for out offsite
 * Add in logistics to the offsite agenda doc, send to ya'll before Friday.
 * Print activity day tickets
 * See if I can find time to do a tea ceremony: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_6BVl-fDsqsyO4GLsTttwYWMinTe1noMMhMZwR4MM1k/edit
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Brought up engineering@ list to tech-mgt, no clear concensus at this time
 * get my phone to the post office :(
 * https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNT_YcduLMTmTVjLyOlSV52yZ_G0S46llrRBgy791g-ml4kOeoLhu0tBHqvWE-Dbw?key=X25wN1hEcHVnN3RnbzdLT05aUzV6V2EwNnFQbVpn
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Code Health Newsletter.
 * Meeting up with CPT team and hopefully making progress on CPT related goals.
 * Meet up with Andre regarding Code Review workgroup.
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jeena

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Close out onboarding task
 * Get familiar with MediaWiki Vagrant
 * Docker version? https://github.com/addshore/mediawiki-docker-dev
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Lars

 * What I plan to do this week
 * get minikube to work again (Debian unstable problems)
 * get Helm to work with minikube
 * try to get Blubberoid deployed via pipeline, with Tyler
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

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

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * pipeline image versioning patch
 * scap canary talk/grokking proposal
 * graphoid image
 * Keyholder patches followup/start on next steps
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T199133 Find top 15 target projects that could use Selenium tests to prevent incidents
 * Blog post - Incident Documentation: An Unexpected Journey https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/128
 * T206621 5 of the 15 prioritized repositories have at least 1 end-to-end test
 * sending e-mails to teams this week
 * T207046 Code health metrics spike
 * Trying to figure out how Gerrit bots work
 * T210412 Learn Docker basics
 * Docker get started tutorial https://docs.docker.com/get-started - At part 4 out of 6.
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

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