Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161219

= 2016-12-19 =

Vacations/Important dates
How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
 * Dec 23: Greg, I need an extra day to prepare....
 * Dec 21-Dec 26: Xmas, ugh
 * Dec ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
 * Dec 23: tyler driving to Kansas \o/
 * December 26: Željko Holiday (St Stephen's Day)
 * December 26-30: XMas Holiday
 * January 2nd: New Year's Day (observed)
 * January 6: Željko Holiday (Epiphany)
 * January 9-11: Dev Summit
 * January 11: Travelling to All Hands
 * January 12-13: All Hands
 * January 16: MLK Jr Day
 * February 20: President's Day
 * March 13: New day off for some reason
 * April 14: New day off for some reason

Time spent spreadsheet

 * week 50: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YMflnOBggixLV-Ra0L6P7vxgUkR6sFik6Aas1y3Zsxg/edit#gid=2137582673

Rotating positions and absences
Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Dec 12 and Dec 19

 * Train: Mukunda
 * wmf.6
 * no train/deploys week of Dec 19
 * SoS: Chad
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/35
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/36 (Mukunda)
 * Out:
 * none?

Dec 26 and Jan 2

 * Train: Tyler
 * No train/deploys week of Dec 26
 * wmf.7
 * SoS: Dan
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/37
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E155/38
 * Out:
 * Week of Dec 26th: Everyone
 * Jan 2nd: New Year's Day observed

Actions from last meeting

 * Greg: write the Q3 CI goal
 * DONE
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Planning
 * Greg: Start conversation re Beta in prod and per-server rollouts
 * NOT DONE
 * Delegated to the scap3 crew

Scrum of Scrums

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

This week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Reminder no deploys until Jan 3rd: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html
 * Updates
 * Reminder no deploys until Jan 3rd: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Last week

 * Blocking
 * Blocked
 * Updates
 * Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html
 * Updates
 * Reminder that deployments are weird between now and the New Year: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html

Volunteer deployers ?

 * Add more Volunteers? Is there any specific policy. Directed one at Greg.
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWAT_deploys#New_SWAT_Team_member_check-list
 * Need trust, technical endorsement (eg approve kabal of deployers). Directed to Greg for questions.


 * Greg hasn't responded yet :/

QA Hire

 * waiting waiting waiting

Future of CI plan

 * Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Planning
 * Meeting with Chase (and Dan) re k8s
 * do a follow-up POC with k8s

Use a unified git repo for MW deploys
l10nupdate talk -- works again

Browser tests

 * Testing webdriver.io and nightwatch.js - appying patches to mediawiki/core, testing if it works with our CI

Phabricator

 * made some progress on search issues, however, it's still broken :-/

DB Inconsistencies
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )

Last week

 * EasyTimeline fix deployed. Have to double check then close task
 * CI: inject skins as dependencies of MW extensions for selenium jobs
 * Look Docker/k8s as time allow

Last week

 * Sorting a few last gerrit things (submodules)
 * Scap3 stuff

Last week

 * Scap3 rollback refactoring
 * K8s meeting with Chase and follow up experiments for CI PoC

This week

 * Fixing my scap3 rollback patch
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D490
 * K8s experimentation

Last week

 * Deploying:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHDEPcf34cf262ed5a07adfe5643c315e94a8f6f9d825
 * This didn't happen - the train interfered
 * Mediawiki Train
 * Maybe this week (if deployments don't eat up all the time)
 * fail over to phab2001
 * nope
 * reimage iridium to jessie, renamed to phab1001
 * nope

This week

 * Continue testing and debugging phabricator search problems
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T153603
 * finish `scap branch`

Last week

 * Finish up scap mw quarterly goal things
 * May actually get to ci-staging this week :)

This week

 * find fix for git-fat
 * finish up scap mw git-gc/kill links

Last week

 * T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
 * T151442 Research webdriver.io
 * T151443 Research nightwatchjs
 * T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension
 * T146916 RSpec tests for Echo Mention notification
 * T153202 NameError: uninitialized constant MediawikiSelenium::RakeTask::Shellwords
 * T1331 Remove lines from Gemfile that are used by RVM
 * SWAT deploy
 * QA hire

This week

 * T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster
 * T151442 Research webdriver.io
 * T151443 Research nightwatchjs
 * T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension