Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20181112

= 2018-11-12 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * November 12th - Holiday (Veteran's Day, Observed)
 * November 13th - JR Out (taking inlaws to airport)
 * November 22+23 - Holidays (Thanksgiving)
 * November 25-december 2nd: Mukunda vacation (in California ahead of the offsite)
 * Week of December 3rd - Team offsite
 * 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

 * Oct 10 - Zeljko
 * Oct 17 - Zeljko
 * Oct 24 - Zeljko
 * Oct 31 - Zeljko
 * Nov 07 - Zeljko
 * Nov 14 - Zeljko <
 * Nov 21 - Zeljko
 * Nov 28 - Zeljko
 * Dec 05 - Zeljko
 * Dec 12 - Zeljko
 * Dec 19 - Zeljko
 * Dec 26 - Zeljko
 * Jan 02 - Zeljko
 * Jan 09 - Zeljko
 * Jan 16 - Zeljko
 * Jan 23 - Zeljko
 * Jan 30 - Zeljko
 * Feb 06 - Zeljko
 * Feb 13 - Zeljko
 * Feb 20 - Zeljko
 * Feb 27 - Zeljko

Hiring

 * Software Engineer position open and reviewing/hiring for now
 * https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1225258


 * Jeena starts next week.

December Offsite
Details:
 * Week of December 3rd
 * At the Queen Mary hotel in Long Beach
 * Deb T will be facilitating
 * REMINDER: Deadline to book travel is Nov 8th!

Topics!
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEng-Offsite-201811-Topics

Activity day options
 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Dpm5B1ScC2GcsMEvq-Tu3_jO50gSSeEbfW5vf8IqNk/edit#gid=0
 * Please vote by end of day Wednesday the 14th.

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)

Engagement Survey
Please take it! :) You should have an email from "Culture Amp".

Incoming Triage/Needs attention

 * gerrit security release 2018-10-08
 * https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/repo-discuss/eH0iLt2XawU
 * jGit update, we are unaffected
 * may want to hold off until next week: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=9836
 * 2018-10-15 -- paladox tells me they're working on a fix and should have a 2.15.6 tagged Soon™
 * 2018-10-22 -- jGit updated to fix leaks https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/201273
 * 2018-10-29 -- 2.15.6 released: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/repo-discuss/9EUYI2eyIZM
 * thcipriani: Will send email today to update on...Wednesday? Anyone wanna work on this with me?
 * Antoine to pair, and be point next time
 * 2018-11-05: built and testing https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/operations/software/gerrit/+/471758/-1..1
 * 2018-11-13: ✅


 * 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


 * 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 ;)


 * 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

Scrum of Scrums

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

Incoming from last week

 * Blocking:

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health:
 * Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.3 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206657
 * wmf.2 was late last week due to an odd HHVM issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208549
 * This week: 1.33.0-wmf.4 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206658
 * Next week:
 * 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

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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


 * 2018-11-05: Mukunda to release RC.0
 * rc.0 Done

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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


 * No update

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


 * https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AUqMgzThBHNL7DgI8C9PO_YQ1oD5CSd0iWvcVbowzdg/edit#gid=1154483822

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 making its way to production this week likely
 * Graphoid will hopefully get a production image Soon™ (this week)

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


 * 2018-11-13:
 * 45 responses so far
 * 35 from staff
 * 9 volunteer
 * 1 other / 3rd party
 * Overall Satisfaction:
 * Local Development: 3.37 / 5 (67%)
 * Beta Cluster: 3.51 / 5 (70%)
 * Testing: 3.37 / 5 (67%)
 * Code Review: 3.37 / 5 (67%)
 * Deployments 4.0 / 5 (80%)
 * Production Systems: 4.0 / 5 (80%)
 * Tools: 4.0 / 5 (80%)
 * Documentation: 3.1 / 5 (62%)
 * Lots of good feedback given
 * I'm very happy with the results of this survey.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

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


 * No activity

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


 * T199133 is finally done, Željko needs help (Greg, JR...) to pick 5 repos

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

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


 * Further discussion with Corey

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

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


 * Further discussion with Corey

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


 * Further discussion with Corey

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


 * Metrics WG spike work continues. Focus on work with SonarQube.   Investigating commit triggers in either a local Jenkins environment or possibly GitHub.

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


 * 2018-11-05: mukunda to make some comments

Gerrit

 * Now running 2.15.6
 * 2.15.7 cut Monday evening
 * Will create update for this after a while

QA
Audiences in close to making an offer to another QA Tester (contractor).

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Phase out DonationInterface custom job
 * Migrate Wikibase job
 * Prepare Nodepool phase out
 * Train
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Dan

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

Greg

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

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Code Health Newsletter
 * Quality/Code Health strategy. Developing big picture story to tie all activities together.
 * Continue work on ROO
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Out on Tuesday
 * Out on Tuesday

Lars

 * What I plan to do this week
 * learn how to use minikube
 * What I'm blocked on
 * n/a
 * Other?
 * n/a

Mukunda

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

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Gerrit update ✅
 * Graphoid production image
 * deployment-charts repo tests -- dunno what those look like yet
 * Work on deploy-notes automation
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T207046 Code health metrics spike
 * Helping gehel with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/config/+/472661
 * Testing Github-TravisCI-SonarCloud
 * Installing Jenkins in Wikimedia cloud with SonarCube plugins
 * T199133 Find top 15 target projects that could use Selenium tests to prevent incidents
 * minor improvements to the script
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T199133 Find top 15 target projects that could use Selenium tests to prevent incidents
 * it's finally done, now I need help (Greg, JR...) to pick 5 repos out of 14
 * Installing Jenkins in Wikimedia cloud with SonarCube plugins
 * I'll probably need Antoines help
 * 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