Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190617

= 2019-06-17 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * June 10 – July 21 - Dan leave (6 weeks, then additional leave later)
 * June 19 (Juneteenth) - US Staff
 * June 20 - Željko, Corpus Christi
 * June 21 - Željko, vacation
 * June 24 - Željko, vacation
 * June 25 - Željko, Statehood Day


 * July 2 - Greg's birthday, unsure if taking off, already have one meeting
 * July 4 (US Independence Day) - US Staff
 * July 10 - Lars off (swapping with weekend)
 * July 22 - August 9 - Željko vacation


 * August 7–19 - James off (inc. Wikimania)
 * August 12 - September 8 - Dan leave
 * August 12 (Glorious Twelfth) - US Staff
 * August ??? - ??? - Antoine
 * August 14–18 - Wikimania
 * Attending: James, Lars, Jean-Rene
 * August 15 - Željko, Assumption of Mary
 * August 25 - September 4 - Brennen vacation


 * September 2 (Labor Day) - US Staff


 * October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day) - US Staff


 * November 11 (Veterans' Day) - US Staff
 * November 28–29 (Thanksgiving) - US Staff


 * December 6 - Lars, Finnish Independence Day
 * December 25–31 (Christmas) - US Staff
 * December 25–26 - Lars, Christmas


 * 2020 January 1 (New Year's Day) - US Staff, Lars

Train

 * Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R


 * June 10 - wmf.9 - No Train (SRE Summit)
 * June 17 - wmf.10 - Mukunda (but Juneteenth on the Wednesday? Yes. Do group0 and group1 an hour apart on Tuesday)
 * June 24 - wmf.11 - Jeena (with Mukunda)
 * July 1 - wmf.12 - No train (Fourth of July)
 * July 8 - wmf.13 - Jeena
 * July 15 - wmf.14 - Lars (with Antoine)
 * July 22 - wmf.15 - Lars
 * July 29 - wmf.16 - Brennen (with Tyler)
 * Aug 5 - wmf.17 - Brennen
 * Aug 12 - wmf.18 - No Train (Wikimania)
 * Aug 19 - wmf.19 - Zeljko 😱
 * Aug 26 - wmf.20 - Zeljko 😭

SoS

 * Zeljko 4eva! :)

Timespent spreadsheet

 * For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week


 * link to week starting June 10: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1urCLNQXeEi1DOR8Iu0qW0yPt-glxX1laqlMovbGyCW0/edit#gid=256442765

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/Continuous_Delivery
 * Next: June 28th, chapters 12+13 (9am Pacific)

AUP exceptions

 * In response to the Acceptable Use Policy, please file any personal computer usage here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKcnBqlPuXppIjXw9RxCLtq7IfydXA181A3R0V4UFjY9wfgQ/viewform

Fall Offsite + TechConf19

 * Decided: 1 long trip, offsite after TechConf
 * dates? 2019-11-1{6,7}--2019-11-21..ish

TechConf19

 * Dates Tuesday 2019-11-12 – Friday 2019-11-15
 * update....
 * Vision: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Conference/2019
 * nomination form: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-May/092131.html

Annual Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TrkGTfPLR0C74va3XyY6faYplSh6UggGiPdmxIVm1uo/edit#gid=0
 * All of our Outcomes/Key Deliverables and projects for next year
 * We need to determine Q1 goals this week/next week.

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '19 edition

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Add as you have them!


 * Phabricator vandalism rollback tool completed 🎉 (blog post? 😉)
 * Upgrade Zuul to 2.5.1-wmf6 (which unblocks the Gerrit upgrade to 2.16) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208426
 * Team offsite in Chicago
 * Repository-hosted CI/CD pipeline configurations now supported (.pipeline/config.yaml) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267
 * Train notes published on branch cut
 * Codehealth pipeline beta - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/live/1/post/160/introducing_the_codehealth_pipeline_beta/
 * Some baseline local development images published
 * Speculative CI meta-architecture published within WMF for feedback
 * Old image versions automatically removed from jenkins agents when /var/lib/docker space > 80%
 * scap 3.10.0 cut
 * Jenkins build timings reports: https://people.wikimedia.org/~dduvall/jenkins/
 * Helped Kask team sketch an outline of its architecture (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Kask)
 * Fatal Monitor with marker lines for deployments: https://logstash.wikimedia.org/app/kibana#/dashboard/77cc3e90-aa27-11e7-9109-51bd3197f7a9?_g=

Incoming/Needs attention

 * REL1_33 branching for extensions: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220653
 * Reedy said he'll move forward with rc0 announcement soon.
 * Mukunda tried to run the script but it ran into trouble. Will re-try, manually.
 * Switching on HTTP Auth again still seems blocked. Barricade should help with this; review when Tyler gets back.
 * Update 2019-06-03: Fighting fires last; should be able to do this week.
 * 2019-06-10: Done with a quick hack by Reedy; do we need to fix the script for next time?
 * http auth patches merged in upstream, next week is the earliest it'll be released
 * 2019-06-17: Gerrit 2.15.14 is out, need to build and release, hopefully this week


 * Documentation!
 * Zuul and force merge: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:V14dlv7nt5ne7gsd
 * Antoine to file task and reply

Incoming from last week
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2019-06-12#Release_Engineering

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Core Platform Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205361 is blocking undeployment of CodeReview.
 * SRE:
 * Traffic Team (low priority): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213769 is blocking undeployment of Wikipedia Zero.
 * ServiceOps Team: Scap 3.10.0: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224915
 * Wikidata: We need to update wikiba.se hosting to PHP7 so we can drop php56 from CI. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224905
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.9 - NO TRAIN OR ANY OTHER DEPLOYS due to SRE Off-site
 * This week: 1.34.0-wmf.10 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220735
 * Next week: 1.34.0-wmf.11 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220736
 * Code Health
 * Log Health
 * Log Health

Callouts

 * Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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


 * New filtered fatal monitor dashboard including markers for scap deployments: https://logstash.wikimedia.org/app/kibana#/dashboard/77cc3e90-aa27-11e7-9109-51bd3197f7a9?_g=
 * Need to fix scap clean :\
 * thcipriani has a crappy fix in mind until http tokens in gerrit are back
 * Any idea when HTTP tokens will come back? Weeks? Months? Never? :-(
 * ~Weeks
 * 2019-05-06: cleaned up stuff last week on deploy hosts, just not the gerrit branches
 * 2019-05-13: …
 * 2019-06-03: upstream issues/patches we want resolved before doing this
 * cf: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218750#5128424
 * looks like these patches merged -- I'll check what release they're going out with
 * 2019-06-10: upstream cutting new version with security fixes (hopefully) end of week, ETA early next week
 * 2019-06-17: gerrit 2.15.14 is out, need to build and release, hopefully this week

Quarterly Goals for Q4
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2018-19_Q4

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Undeploy the CodeReview extension.
 * WHO: James, need help from CPT


 * James will ping CPT about this this week (April 8th)
 * … and again w/c 15 April.
 * … and again w/c 6 May (in SoS).
 * … and again w/c 27 May (in SoS).
 * [Recurring item]

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Setup 1-3 of the CI WG options (Zuul v3, Argo, GitLab)
 * WHO: Lars


 * Gitlab:
 * https://wmf-gitlab3.vm.liw.fi/ is up and accepts registrations with wikimedia.org (and liw.fi) email addresses
 * Please play with it and tell Lars anything that seems iffy

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

 * GOAL: Instrument Quibble for data collection
 * WHO: Mukunda, Antoine


 * Blocked

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

 * GOAL: Create a graph where time is spent and make a prioritized list for improvements.
 * WHO: Mukunda, Antoine


 * Blocked

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

 * GOAL: Prepare the Deployment Pipeline for changes to our CI tooling.
 * WHO: ???, ???


 * Blocked by not having new CI tooling yet

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

 * GOAL: Create a .pipeline/config.yaml standard to give users more control over how their tests are run in the pipeline and allow the easy saving of artifacts at pipeline completion. (RelEng)
 * WHO: Dan, Tyler, ???

✅

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

 * GOALS:
 * Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline -
 * Wikidata Termbox SSR, Kask for Session Storage Service, cpjobqueue (stretch), ORES (stretch)
 * WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars

There are tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220403


 * Wikidata Termbox SSR


 * Kask for Session Storage Service


 * cpjobqueue (stretch)
 * ❌ pushing to next quarter


 * ORES
 * cf: Dan's comments
 * ❌ pushing to next quarter

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Provide an "Official" Docker base image for local development of MediaWiki based on the production tooling.
 * WHO: Jeena, Brennen
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212449


 * Done for MediaWiki, for some values of "done" and "MediaWiki". Production-likeness needs considerable work.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 3

 * GOALs: Presentation/session(s) at the Wikimedia Hackathon on the current state of Code Health projects (technical debt and code stewardship)
 * WHO: JR

✅

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL:
 * Publish a re-imagination of the Review Queue process.
 * Develop and implement metrics around task and code-review responsiveness
 * WHO: Greg, JR (and Andre)


 * Review Queue
 * Blocked on Greg time


 * Task and code-review responsiveness metrics
 * No progress last week.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.2

 * GOALs:
 * Expand SonarQube reporting into CI infrastructure
 * Perform SonarQube analysis on all extensions
 * Engage user communities in direct feedback solicitation
 * WHO: JR, Zeljko, Code Health Metrics


 * Continued working towards expansion of coverage to all extensions in Code Health Pipeline. Going to do so in smaller chunks to see how infrastructure reacts.

Release MW 1.33

 * Handed off to Reedy along with security releases.

Gerrit

 * 2.15.14
 * Cannot assign user name "XXX" to account ####; name already in use. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216605

SCAP

 * Enhance MediaWiki deployments for support of php7.x
 * may need to do work here in the near term

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finish reviews of Awight Quibble patches. Hopefully cut a new Quibble release
 * Polish up zuul/layout.yaml a bit more, specially jobs for MediaWiki release branches
 * Cleanup CI puppet manifests -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/bug:T225735
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Kosta has send a patch for Quibble to spawn Apache since `php -S` is way too slow (single threaded, probably lacks opcache etc) -- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/quibble/+/516729/
 * Other?
 * Lot of efforts have been put to speed up MediaWiki tests. Moaare needed, specially the Selenium tests seem unreasonably slow (too many login actions).

Brennen

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Figure out where to go with 508392: Add .pipeline/blubber.yaml with dev variant for local-charts
 * Any needed followup for 517111: CI: Create lightweight agent role for Jenkins
 * Follow up on local dev testing (once deployment-charts exists)
 * Experiment more with Lars's GitLab
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Out for a few minutes this morning to deal with lingering tax nonsense.
 * Out for a few minutes this morning to deal with lingering tax nonsense.

Dan

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

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Security Council Meeting (already done!) ;)
 * Get and response to final budget/plan
 * Q1 Goals
 * TechConf nominations review
 * TechConf topics review (post office hours last week)
 * including reviewing of things not covered from last techconf
 * Phabricator board triaging/reconfiguring again/still (sorry!)
 * Read chapter 12 of book
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

James

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Dropping php56 CI testing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224906
 * [More] Helping with unit vs. Integration test split https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87781 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225068 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221434
 * [Still] Fixing quibble node10 follow-up for MobileFrontend https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224997
 * [More] Migrating CI phan jobs over to php72 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223847
 * [Again] Building a proof of concept of shims in WikimediaMessages so we can undeploy things better: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222918
 * [Again] Discussing further defining variant Wikimedia production config in compiled, static files https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223602
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * schedule Core Review WG kickoff
 * work on goal planning
 * work on Tec13 1.1 (responsiveness metrics)
 * continue working on Code Stewardship tasks
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jeena

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finally make patchset for deployment-charts
 * work on other charts for deployment-charts
 * fix some bugs I found in local-charts
 * fill out planning chart
 * Read CD book
 * Prepare for train next week
 * Look into beta needs for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222820
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Lars

 * What I plan to do this week
 * read chapter 12 of CD book
 * make v2 of CI arch doc based on feedback so far
 * write up a CI implementation around GitLab, using Gerrit
 * plan next FY work for my own part
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train
 * Rebuild phabricator sshd with a patch for T224677
 * Phabricator deployment if possible
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Remove barricade v2 lucene dependency (with dcausse)
 * Gerrit 2.15.14 released, will deploy
 * Finish Blubberoid policy file work
 * get up-to-date on the lib/extension dependency work
 * What I'm blocked on
 * scap 3.10.0-1 ot poke SRE
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki - TwoColConflict is the only one left from the original list, have to cross check with new repos added to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Selenium/Node.js#write-tests
 * T223774 The first Selenium test for WikibaseCirrusSearch - could not get the extenstion working on vagrant :P will be able to do most of the stuff anyway
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * holiday on Thursday (20th), vacation on Friday (21st) and Monday (24th), holiday on Tuesday (25th)
 * holiday on Thursday (20th), vacation on Friday (21st) and Monday (24th), holiday on Tuesday (25th)

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