Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190415

= 2019-04-15 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * April 17-19 (Wednesday - Friday) - Željko vacation
 * April 18-19 (Thursday, Friday) - Lars on vacation in Chicago
 * April 19: Moved WMF Holiday for James
 * April 22 (WMF Holiday) - US Staff
 * April 22-27: Team offsite in Chicago
 * April 29: Moved WMF Holiday for US staff at offsite except James
 * May 1st - Lars, Antoine and Željko, Labor Day / May Day
 * May 8th - Antoine, 1945 victory
 * May 15 (Wednesday) - Željko vacation
 * May 16-20 - Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (Prague, Czechia)
 * Attending: Greg, JR, Zeljko, James, and Jeena
 * May 27th: US Employees - Memorial Day
 * May 30th-31th - Antoine, Feast of the Ascension
 * June 10th - Antoine, Pentecost -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastertide for Antoine/France Easter holidays
 * May 27 (Memorial Day) - US Staff
 * June 6-7 - Brennen, Apogaea
 * June 19 (Juneteenth) - US Staff
 * July 22 - August 9 - Željko vacation
 * August 25 - September 4 - Brennen vacation

Train

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


 * Apr 08 - wmf.25 - Mukunda
 * Apr 15 - 1.34.0-wmf.1 - Mukunda
 * Apr 22 - wmf.2 - NO TRAIN, team offsite
 * Apr 29 - wmf.3 - Tyler
 * May 06 - wmf.4 - Tyler
 * May 13 - wmf.5 - Antoine
 * May 20 - wmf.6 - Antoine
 * May 27 - wmf.7 - Zeljko
 * June 03 - wmf.8 - Zeljko
 * June 10 - wmf.9 - Dan
 * June 17 - wmf.10 - Dan

SoS

 * Zeljko 4eva! :)
 * Not for the next 3 weeks :D

Timespent spreadsheet

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


 * W16 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1urCLNQXeEi1DOR8Iu0qW0yPt-glxX1laqlMovbGyCW0/edit#gid=0
 * James: Should I be doing this now? (I don't have access.)
 * Greg: Yes, will deal with this later.
 * TODO: Greg give James access
 * TODO: Greg clarify distinction between "maintenance" and tec1
 * ANSWER: This is primarily for things we didn't account for in our annual planning, which includes (unfortunately) CI Infra/config maintence.
 * TODO: CI/CD book, educaton/prof dev column? for now "Other"
 * TODO: CI/CD book, educaton/prof dev column? for now "Other"

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:
 * At the team offsite
 * Up through Chapter 9

Spring Offsite

 * Location: Chicago, IL (Central timezone, UTC-5 while we're there)
 * Dates: Arrive Monday 4/22, Depart Saturday 4/27.
 * Activity day
 * Museum of Science and Industry on Friday
 * Cubs game Tuesday night
 * Program:
 * Forming....
 * Come prepared to discuss team mission and scope
 * Current priority of topics based on the etherpad votes:
 * 1) Future of WMF CI:
 * 1a) what tooling do we commit to for the next phase, processes of using CI/CD, implementation plan for new tooling/versions
 * 1b) Discussion of rubric (see mail - [RelEng] CI evaluation, phase 2: criteria)
 * 1c) Showcase integration/pipelinelib Pipeline Builder and how it could enable self-serve CI
 * 2) Continuation/”conclusion” of team scope/mission
 * 3) Future of the Beta Cluster
 * 3a) Things we said during annual plan discussions: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/betaclusterwhat
 * 4) Discussion of Prodlike and how to get there
 * 5) How do we organise and track our own work? (Greg)
 * 6) Maintenance of documentation
 * 7) PGP training and keysigning (liw) see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding/GPG
 * 8) logspam cleanup epic (follow-up from the book club discussion on 3/21)
 * 9) Book club discussion - Up through chapter 9
 * 10) Everybody does deployments (p271 Every member of the team should know how to deploy)

Skill matrix redux

 * cf: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix


 * I plan to have you update it next week (the week before the offsite).
 * Should we add people outside the team who have significant skills in our matrix? / bus factor indviduals.
 * Yeah, we should note it somehow.
 * PROPOSAL: Add a final column "Other maintainers" and instead of stars have a list of names
 * Can we transpose the table now it's so wide? +1

Here is the current table, please add/strike-through/leave comments for how to improve it/make it relevant to your work today: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-skillmatrix-redux

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '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

Annual Planning

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-fy1920ap-tec1
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-fy1920ap-tec3
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-fy1920ap-tec12
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-fy1920ap-tec13
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-fy1920ap-new


 * Nothing new right now...
 * I'm talking with Mark tomorrow morning (he won't be in Portland, sadly)
 * apparently he's coming now, I'll talk to him there :)

Annual Reviews
Overview: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2018-19_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective
 * Note: there is a workshop you can attend to get advice: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/FY_2018-19_Annual_Review_and_Retrospective#Sprints_&_trainings_-_support_from_T&C

Deadlines
Everyone:
 * Starting now: You and I discuss who your peer reviewers should be
 * April 26th: Enter your peer reviewers into Namely (please run them by me first)
 * May 17th: Deadline to complete self-reviews, peer reviews, and reviews of your manager.
 * May 20th: I start reviewing the peer reviews and writing my feedback on you.

Non SafeGuard (aka US Employees):
 * June 14th: Deadline for managers to complete all 1:1 meetings with direct reports and provide written feedback in Namely.

SafeGuard:
 * June 14th - Managers of those employed by Safeguard submit their reviews to HR for submission to Safeguard
 * July 12th - Deadline to have a 1:1 and share final manager review with direct report in Namely

[Task] Add Scribunto to extension-gate in CI

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125050
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/497574/
 * calling into question time spent on unit tests in pre-merge tests.
 * yes to having better guidelines

Incoming from last week

 * Blocking:

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.25 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206679
 * This week: 1.34.0-wmf.1 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220726
 * Next week: No train for 1.34.0-wmf.2
 * Code Health
 * Log Health
 * Code Health
 * Log Health

Callouts

 * Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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


 * 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


 * 1.33 branch cut for extensions blocked (except tarball ones, which James did manually)
 * Mukunda to do it 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.

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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


 * Focus on a couple noteworthy repos: e.g.,
 * core
 * extensions
 * ops/puppet
 * Maybe setup in serial, i.e., a week per evaluation


 * Questions:
 * RelEng/Extended working group?
 * At least in the WG eval it was good to have non-familiar people
 * But maybe with the setup of options it might be beneficial to have experienced with current setup people.
 * Folks outside the original working group to join-in to setup options; people TBD
 * Do we need a rubric before we do this prototyping? (yes)
 * DONE lars to work on rubric week of 2019-04-01
 * See email 2019-04-08

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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


 * Still no progress / nowhere to store this data and other tasks taking priority

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

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, ???


 * Dan has a patches up for user-configurable pipelines in pipelinelib
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502917
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502918

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


 * changeprop


 * ORES
 * cf: Dan's comments


 * Wikidata Termbox SSR


 * Kask for Session Storage Service


 * cpjobqueue (stretch)

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

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Outcome 3

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

No activitiy

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)

No Activity

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


 * CodeHealth pipeline in CI to be used for SonarQube analysis

Gerrit

 * Threads still not great: no explanation :\
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/monitoring?part=graph&graph=activeThreads
 * Need to deploy barricade
 * barricade requires at least one patch on top of gerrit

Phabricator

 * Train blocker tasks created. date field bug worked around

QA/Code Health

 * Daniel has started participating in Code Health Metrics WG. To keep the broader WG activities in sync with what's happening with CPT.
 * Code Review workgroup invite email didn't go out last week, will send out this week.
 * Had Graphoid bash meeting to discuss future plans/code stewardship re: Graphoid.

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Some more Quibble patches
 * Quibble pending patch to resolve extension requirements (no more zuul/parameter_zuul.py !!)
 * Problem is for extensions with semi-dependencies (e.g. VisualEditor on BetaFeatures), where they're not in extension.json, but if they're both installed they run extra tests/do extra magic.
 * CI maintenance as usual
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Gerrit Adminstrator rights for others. I can't make my mind about it really :-(
 * install.php no more fails when an extension dependency is missing https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220514
 * Other?
 * Too much paperwork

Brennen

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Land first version of dev-images: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/502931
 * Patch local-charts to use dev-images
 * Review Dan's pipelinelib patches in earnest
 * Eyeballs on Gerrit thread issue as needed
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Taking a long lunch at some point to run errands prior to leaving for offsite
 * Taking a long lunch at some point to run errands prior to leaving for offsite

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Addressing reviews of pipelinelib changes
 * Finishing up email draft to analytics
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Reviews:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502917
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/502918
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Follow-up from last week
 * Skillmatrix update and send out today
 * Reviewing/synthesizing other teams' processes in prep for next week
 * preping intro presentation for offsite
 * Figure out vendor process for "not actually an annual review" review
 * oh right, forgot about a conversation last week....
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

James

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Helping the Multimedia team a little (they want to put phase II of SDC live this week).
 * Some slightly scary production config clean-up, reducing surface of "variable" config that shouldn't ever, e.g. $wgMiserMode.
 * oh good, safe changes :)
 * Explore MCS/PCS migration to k8s/docker
 * Help with whatever UBNs/etc. blow up
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * follow up on code stewardship reviews
 * plan out Q4 goal work
 * meet/talk with Corey and Marcella re: Software Maintenance
 * get Code Review WG invite out
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jeena

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Review various patches
 * Finish up volume mounting script for local-charts
 * other local-charts things
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Lars

 * What I plan to do this week
 * prepare for offsite trip
 * teleport to Chicago
 * try to recover from jetlag
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Train
 * Read a book
 * Prepare for offsite
 * Code Review
 * Profit
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Deploy barricade
 * work on revert tool
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Gerrit revert tool review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/software/gerrit/tools/gervert/+/504026/
 * Gerrit threads issue: ongoing
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * finish up anything urgent
 * vacation Wednesday-Friday
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * I got invited to a few important sounding meetings (X:Platform Evolution sync), all of which are really late, I'm optional so I guess I can just say no?
 * I got invited to a few important sounding meetings (X:Platform Evolution sync), all of which are really late, I'm optional so I guess I can just say no?

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