Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20151006

= 2015-10-06 =

Vacations/Confs/etc
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Oct 12: US HOLIDAY - Indigenous People's Day (Columbus Day)
 * Oct 12-16: Ops team offsite
 * Oct 16: Dan -
 * Oct 16 - 20: Andrew - Vacation
 * Oct 23 Friday: Antoine -
 * Nov 11: US HOLIDAY - Veterans Day
 * Nov 26: US HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving
 * Nov 27: US HOLIDAY - Day after Thanksgiving
 * Dec 25: US HOLIDAY - Christmas Day - December 25
 * Jan 01: US HOLIDAY - New Year's Day
 * Jan 16-18: Chad - another music festival
 * Jan 18: US HOLIDAY - Martin Luther King Day
 * Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
 * May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
 * June-ish: Chad - EDC

Skill matrix update (2 min)

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * please update by EOD (used in our QR)
 * Antoine {done}

Quarterly Review (2 min)

 * Last chance review of our Quarterly Review slides
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11GDxDi0OzZ70pJk5AVoKRu2wjPWYh-CU6dbYWYWQGtQ/edit#slide=id.ga4ecc5878_2_0

Ours

 * Sessions that made first deadline:
 * Code-review migration status/discussion (aka Differential migration RFC) - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114320
 * Scap3: updates, upgrades, and challenges - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114045
 * What we need to do:
 * By 6 Nov 2015 (one month), all Summit proposals must have active discussions and a Summit plan documented in the description.

Discussions that are interesting to us

 * RFC: Streamlining Composer usage - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105638 - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Streamlining_Composer_usage
 * implications on deployments
 * Identify and prioritize architectural challenges - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96903
 * See the "Process" section; implications on deployments, shared infrastructure and development processes
 * The end of shared hosting support? - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113210
 * oh boy :)

Q2 KPIs (5 min)

 * We should get these 2 done sooner than later
 * Log errors: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108749
 * Owner: Chad (with Mukunda) :)
 * CI wait time: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108750
 * Owners: Antoine and Dan
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70114
 * https://grafana.wikimedia.org/#/dashboard/db/releng-zuul

New vs Maint time spent (10 min)
=== greg === QuarterlyGoal1: 10% QuartelryGoal2: 30% Maint/Reactive: 60%
 * Discuss how to "track" time spent on goals and maintenance
 * Why? See our title slide in the Quarterly Review: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UYK_IKndaubzIRGqw2-YWK_cVXUiZXLagMDf9QdHs1o/edit#slide=id.g6f90f15c0_10_0
 * One suggestion: weekly breakdown on Monday/Tuesday ("What did I do last week? Where does that fall?") Still just using percentages of time, rough estimate.
 * see eg what Ops is doing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operations/Operations_Meeting_Notes/TechOps-2015-09-28#Individual_updates_.2820_mins.29
 * example for us:

Will let management gauge load of teams.

#together (10 min)

 * Team workboard triage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/query/open/


 * CI Scaling needs from Ops for Q2
 * Antoine? :)
 * Antoine gotta identify ops related projects and figure out what we reasonably can do. Backlog in mind: network isolate nodepool instances,  move zuul to labs, phase out gallium

Scrum of Scrums (5 min)

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
 * Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R


 * Pinged from Subbu re: "Parsoid patches don't update Beta Cluster automatically -- only deploy repo patches seem to update that code"
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92871


 * Pinged from Chris re: "Update all repositories that use mediawiki_selenium Ruby gem to version 1.6.x"
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114241

CI Scaling

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1010/
 * Quarterly Goal: "CI cluster responds to spike in queued builds by starting and registering additional jenkins slaves" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111106


 * LOT of changes in integration/config to add entry points to mw ext and phase out old jobs
 * Most python jobs migrated
 * Ruby/gem added to Nodepool instance
 * Talked extensively about caching package managers tarballs

Deployment Cabal

 * Main: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/349/
 * Scap3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1449/
 * Quarterly Goal: "Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926


 * using Differential for code-review for scap :)
 * post-friday for restbase via scap on Beta

Phabricator/Diff[usion|erential] migration

 * Gitblit-Deprecate: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/46/
 * Quarterly Goal: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111465
 * Gerrit-Migration: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/


 * reminder to start RFC drafting before Nov 6th when it's due

Release MediaWiki 1.26

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1177/

Beta Cluster

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/497/?order=priority

Other Work

 * I haven't upgraded phabricator for a full month. This is happening tomorrow, hopefully using scap3 to do the deployment.
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110443