Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180423

= 2018-04-23 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * May 1: Željko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day), Antoine ditto
 * May 7-11: Antoine, too many holidays in France that week
 * May 7-14: 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 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


 * 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
 * Apr 23 - 1.32.0-wmf.1 - Chad <
 * Apr 30 - wmf.2 - Chad
 * May 07 - wmf.3 - Mukunda
 * May 14 - wmf.4 - Mukunda

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
 * Apr 23 - Tyler <
 * Apr 30 - Tyler

Updates

 * Rando: https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * bryan made it clear when there's oddity in the group versions


 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qVmJ47UYatbjpwOvCgLgBKsp3Ntv0gZv1-NuhiDnjFM/edit?ts=5ad72c5e&pli=1#gid=0

Scrum of Scrums

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

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * HEADS UP: localization update rebuilds are taking a long time during full scaps. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191921
 * Updates
 * HEADS UP: localization update rebuilds are taking a long time during full scaps. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191921

Release Engineering

 * Blocking
 * Working on Scap 3.8.0 release to unblock ores git-lfs deployments.
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Deadlines in phabricator are now visible on workboards.
 * Deadlines in phabricator are now visible on workboards.

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


 * worked on defining code stewardship metrics

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.


 * no activity

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
 * Build ext specific containers using MW image as base

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

 * workboard


 * Scap 3.8.0 released

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:


 * Made some pretty good progress on swift (git-lfs) support in phabricator

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Quibble on mediawiki skins
 * Address reported issues (fails with Ubuntu mysql version)
 * Switch quibble to use 'npm run selenium' entry point
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Have to write doc
 * Late on Zuul super user story
 * Other?

Chad

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train
 * MW 1.31.0-rc.0
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week (arc tasks)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188935 modify service-pipeline to include helm install/helm test Normal   Open
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191327 Come up with a decent method of declaring helm chart path/version in service repo  Normal   Open
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Staging? huh?
 * Stewardship follow-up
 * SWAT changes... (kick me if you don't hear anything)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * code stewardship metrics
 * identify first group of teams to engage with for tech debt process
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finish the swift plugin for Phabricator
 * scap + git-lfs production testing with ores
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finish wmf.30
 * Get some review for pipeline puppetization https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/428010/
 * Finish verification of pipeline
 * What I'm blocked on
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191921
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T179188 Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
 * T179190 Run Selenium Cucumber tests in CI
 * T191537 MediaWiki core's selenium tests flaky when run as part of mwext-mw-selenium-node-composer-jessie job
 * 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