Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190325

= 2019-03-25 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * March 29–April 1: James out (New Hampshire)
 * March 31: DST switchover in .eu, elsewhere ish.
 * April 9-12: Greg at tech-mgt F2F in Portland
 * April 17-19 (Wednesday - Friday) - Željko vacation
 * April 18-19 (Thursday, Friday) - Lars vacation in Chicago
 * April 22 (WMF Holiday) - US Staff
 * April 22-27: Team offsite in Chicago
 * April 29: Moved WMF Holiday for US staff at offsite
 * 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 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


 * 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
 * Mar 04 - wmf.20 - Antoine
 * Mar 11 - wmf.21 - Zeljko 🐌
 * Mar 18 - wmf.22 - Zeljko 💣
 * Mar 25 - wmf.23 - Dan
 * Apr 01 - wmf.24 - Dan
 * 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

SoS

 * Zeljko 4eva! :)

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:
 * April 4th at the "same" time (9am Pacific/16:00 UTC)
 * Chapters 7-9, inclusive

Spring Offsite

 * Location: Chicago, IL (Central timezone, UTC-5 while we're there)
 * Dates: Arrive Monday 4/22, Depart Saturday 4/27.
 * Activity day
 * Fill out the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zqO8Mk1wUU2ZtyAM9xU68CQTpJFEOPALfDKCj7aMNo4/edit
 * Does anyone have an interest in looking for a more guided tour thing? Like a river boat tour or architecture tour or segway or
 * Program:
 * start listing your topics! https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-offsite-201904-topics
 * I'm meeting with Deb on Wednesday to discuss program/logistics/etc

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '19 edition

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


 * CI tooling future WG started, blogged
 * GerritBot comments on patches going through the pipeline (with fancy badges and the like)
 * Train deploy notes are now automatically generated on branch push
 * Scap 3.9.2-1 released in production
 * Phabricator upgrade: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/147/projects_forms_and_subtypes_oh_my/
 * Published the ISOSTWG results and recommendation on officewiki and announced: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_Support_for_Open_Source_Tools_Working_Group
 * swat tags now show up in the deployment schedule (via lua magic)
 * Blog post: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/152/help_my_ci_job_fails_with_exit_status_-11/
 * CI future WG report: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG/Report

Q4 Goals planning

 * etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1819Q4-goals
 * Due: Monday March 18th, aka this Friday

Posted online at their respective locations:
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC12:_Developer_Productivity/Goals#Q4_Goals
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC3:_Deployment_Pipeline/Goals#Q4_Goals
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC13:_Code_Health/Goals#Q4_Goals
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC1:_Reliability,_Performance,_and_Maintenance/Goals#Q4_Goals

Annual Planning is coming up

 * 2019-03-13: I emailed mark re future testing/"evaluation" environments
 * See notes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QU_6Svn4iduK0TPLSOghYP4g1lK-byCv-0ZKoHfIAVY/edit#heading=h.6gq2j7lm5pz8
 * 2019-03-18: updates....


 * Something new this year

Incoming/Needs attention

 * Jenkins upgrade
 * Antoine is doing it now :)

branch cutting

 * our current branch cut method is broken due to HTTP Token on gerrit being disabled for security reasons.
 * TODO: create a task about this, add to train as a blocker
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218597
 * Tyler and Mukunda and $OTHERS to chat after this meeting
 * 2019-03-25: any other follow up needed?
 * Zeljko has managed to cut branch for last week's train

Scrum of Scrums

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

Incoming from last week

 * Blocking:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/config/+/496843/ (from stas)
 * "Undeploy UserMerge Extension from WMF production" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T216089 but blocked by T218160 which needs input from MWCPT
 * James volunteers to remove it :)

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/CI Futures WG/Report https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/CI_Futures_WG/Report https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/153/ci_working_group_report_with_recommendations_of_new_tools_to_try/
 * Train Health:
 * Last week: 1.33.0-wmf.22 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206676
 * This week: 1.33.0-wmf.23 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206677
 * T218940 Exception "At least one of: RCID, revision ID, and log ID MUST be specified" from ManualLogEntry::publish [moved from wmf.22]
 * Next week: 1.33.0-wmf.24 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206678
 * Code Health:
 * T219156 Generate baseline analysis of all extensions
 * T219156 Generate baseline analysis of all extensions

Callouts

 * Release Engineering

Train status and happenings

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

Quarterly Goals for Q3
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2018-19_Q3

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Automate the generation of change log notes
 * WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)


 * should now run on branch cut https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/train-deploy-notes/

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Investigate notification methods for developers with changes that are riding any given train
 * WHO: Mukunda, Tyler

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2

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


 * I haven't gotten any responses about where to put the data. Hopefully graphite & promethius will work. Otherwise I guess logstash?

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 2 / Output 2.1

 * GOAL: Select and integrate a code health metric solution into our tooling.
 * WHO: JR, ...


 * ✅ SonarQube is currently integrated into our CI on the experimental pipeline.

TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1

 * GOALS:
 * Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline -
 * cxserver, ORES (partially), citoid, changeprop, cpjobqueue (stretch)
 * Deploy eventgate
 * WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars


 * cxserver
 * Images built via deployment pipeline
 * Namespaces created for k8s eqiad/codfw
 * helm charts created


 * ✅ citoid
 * Images built via deployment pipeline
 * Deployed
 * Traffic switched


 * changeprop


 * ✅ eventgate
 * Image built via pipeline
 * Chart
 * Deployed


 * ORES
 * cf: Dan's comments

TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOAL: Conduct interviews with development stakeholders and compile a report that informs future work creation of a rubric.
 * WHO: Jeena, Mukunda


 * ✅ Results are posted: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Satisfaction

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1

 * GOALs:
 * Develop and communicate guidelines and best practices for successful Code Stewardship.
 * (Continued from Q2) Update/refresh review queue (review process for initial code deployment)
 * WHO: JR


 * worked on last week. Wrapping up this week.

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

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3

 * GOALs:
 * Evolve/develop tools and processes to support the PE refactoring effort to improve code health.
 * Develop common test strategy that enable teams to engage in more effective and efficient testing practices. (maybe should be output 2.4?)
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

✅ action list in place


 * worked on test strategy last week. Wrapping up this week.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2

 * GOALs:
 * Speak at All Hands on the status of Technical Debt
 * Engage and coach development teams on their approach to managing technical debt.
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.1

 * GOALs: Code Health Dashboard with 50% of repositories covered.
 * WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

Gerrit

 * thcipriani: I want to make ACL changes
 * thcipriani: I want to turn back on http tokens

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Quibble patches + release + deploy
 * Zuul patches if at all possible
 * Gerrit rights
 * Catchup on CI working group
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Definitely need a pair of eyes for Quibble arguments handling https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218357
 * Other?

Brennen

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Final CI WG meeting Monday, associated tasks.
 * Return focus to local-charts dev
 * Follow up on Gerrit learning
 * Follow up on new developer docs question before Docker SIG meeting Thursday
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * TRAAAAAAIN 🚂
 * Full tilt (in the margins) on .pipeline/config.yaml https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210267
 * Had thoughts on two different execution plan formats over the weekend. Could use opinion(s)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Gerrit meeting
 * Quality and Test Engineering sub-team discussion with T&C most likely
 * Offsite program planning
 * Team process proposal (uhoh! ;) )
 * Annual planning, make a meeting (and process on how to do it) in early April for async releng team planning
 * Move branch cut for REL_1.33 forward, deal with phab train blocker tasks @waiting on mukunda re https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8258
 * Read some CD book :)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * stupid head cold
 * Other?

James

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Structured Data on Commons team support (nominally the last week I'm doing this?)
 * Was fiddling with JS code coverage of MW core; will poke this some more.
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Yay for UBNs.
 * Yay for UBNs.

Jean-Rene

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Wrap up Q3 goals for Code Stewardship best practices and Test Strategy
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jeena

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Merge local-charts mediawiki installation into master pending approval. I have tested various configurations of services hosted in minikube and outside and all seems well.
 * Add documentation / install script for Mac OS local-charts setup
 * Read book
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Not here Monday
 * Not here Monday

Lars

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Read CD book
 * Read Go book
 * Read Blubber code
 * Finish CI future WG, publish report, deal with reactions
 * What I'm blocked on
 * pain in the neck
 * Other?

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Finish https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195061 (done)
 * Make phabricator search work with elasticsearch 6
 * This is currently somewhat broken due to a hasty revert a few weeks ago.
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181393
 * Fix conduit access for the release_date field.
 * Needed so task series' can be created/updated.
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219192
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Gerrit ACL updates
 * Gerrit 2.15.12
 * Gerrit ReadOnly plugin
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T219156 Generate baseline analysis of all extensions
 * 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