Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180723

= 2018-07-23 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * July 23-27: JR Vacation
 * August 15 (Wednesday): WMF Monthly Holiday
 * August 15 (Wednesday): Željko holiday (Assumption of Mary)
 * August 23-24 (Thursday-Friday): Željko vacation
 * August ~: Antoine
 * September a week or so - Antoine
 * Middle of August...a few days somewhere - thcipriani

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


 * July 02 - wmf.11 - Zeljko - no train, Fourth of July
 * July 09 - wmf.12 - Zeljko
 * July 16 - wmf.13 - Zeljko
 * July 23 - wmf.14 - Zeljko <
 * July 30 - wmf.15 - Mukunda
 * Aug 06 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
 * Aug 13 - wmf.17 - Mukunda
 * Aug 20 - wmf.18 - Tyler
 * Aug 27 - wmf.19 - Tyler
 * Sep 03 - wmf.20 - Dan
 * Sep 10 - wmf.21 - Dan
 * Sep 17 - wmf.22 - Zeljko
 * Sep 24 - wmf.23 - Zeljko
 * Oct 01 - wmf.24 - Antoine
 * Oct 08 - wmf.25 - Antoine
 * Oct 15 - wmf.26 - Mukunda (last 1.32 wmf.XX release, 1.33 starts the next week)
 * Oct 22 - wmf.1 - Mukunda

SoS

 * July 04 - Dan
 * July 11 - Antoine
 * July 18 - Antoine
 * July 25 - Tyler <
 * Aug 01 - Tyler
 * Aug 08 - Dan
 * Aug 15 - Dan
 * Aug 22 - Mukunda
 * Aug 29 - Mukunda
 * Sep 05 - Tyler
 * Sep 12 - Tyler
 * Sep 19 - Dan
 * Sep 26 - Dan
 * Oct 03 - Zeljko
 * Oct 10 - Zeljko
 * Oct 17 - Antoine
 * Oct 24 - Antoine
 * Oct 31 - Mukunda

Hiring tech task/take home test

 * For Chad's backfill (Sr Software Engineer)
 * JD: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1APTtE-WOW93qcTkbfS4ilFcYIHt007pyHjEr1hvXnj8/edit
 * brainstorm ideas of what this should be
 * plan a project around a common problem we have and metrics
 * what does blubber do?

Needs attention

 * Create a production test wiki in group0 to parallel Wikimedia Commons - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197616
 * Wikitech wiki page has a list of tasks
 * maintenance scripts
 * databases
 * dba to create the database
 * restbase + parsoid + tons of things
 * Chad and Sam were taking care of this in the past, but none of us know how to do it
 * We don't really have a lot of time :(
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki
 * Is this worth it? without traffic does this tell you anymore than you can get with targeted tests in beta?


 * Upgrade gerrit to 2.15.3
 * #together?
 * Tyler and Mukunda
 * will review process this week, schedule upgrade for end of this week or early next week

Scrum of Scrums

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

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Updates
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates
 * Next 3 weeks train in EU time
 * Successful EU Train last week \o/
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies
 * Successful EU Train last week \o/
 * Quarterly cross-dependencies

Train status and happenings

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

- .13 blocked (3 blockers)

Past week status updates

 * All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q4

Pipeline: Move verify stage from Minikube to CI k8s namespace in production context

 * made a tracking task
 * investigating permissions for helm test

Code Health

 * T199253 - Investigate and propose record of origin (ROO) for deployed code (currently Developers/Maintainers page)
 * Perform existing Stewardship review process for Q1 cycle.
 * T199254 - Add test evaluation to post mortem review process.
 * Review existing e2e test coverage.
 * Define prioritization scheme.
 * Prioritize e2e testing gaps.
 * T199257 - make current unit testing coverage more visible by reporting out to Engineering Management.
 * T199259 - Platform and Search Platform teams are using TDM PoC
 * T199262 - Identify key Tech Debt areas
 * T199263 - Put in place Tech Debt management process for PEP
 * T199261 - Define base Code Health metric set.

Developer Productivity

 * Make a hire to create the capacity needed for this program.
 * Write and share a survey to measure developer satisfaction and areas for investment. -


 * nothing recent, delayed due to Sr position being first in the queue.

Selenium

 * Q1 goals task: T198389 Q1 Selenium framework improvements
 * T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
 * fixed for Math
 * failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`

Phabricator

 * Almost finished with improved antivandalism algorithm that scores individual edits and gives credit based on the user's history.
 * Essentially users with edit history can make more edits before hitting the limit and edits which destroy the description of a task are scored much higher than adding or removing a single project.

Antoine

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Quibble and per patch coverage https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T195918 (it is a mess)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * The world / life
 * Other?

Dan

 * What I plan to do this week
 * T196940 Establish shared library for pipeline code used in Jenkins
 * Address comments in review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/446704/
 * Get review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/447005/
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Nada
 * Other?

Greg

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Get tech task and hiring moving for the Sr position
 * Still want to make some changes to the Skill Matrix
 * MW releases and Cindy meeting (to schedule)
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Jean-Rene

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

Mukunda

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Deploy improved antivandalism in phabricator \o/
 * Work on gerrit upgrade with Tyler
 * Try to finish phabricator revert tool
 * Finish elasticsearch 6 support in Phabricator
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Tyler

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Gerrit user plugin
 * http://gerrit.tylercipriani.com:8080
 * has ldap
 * wmf-fixshadowuser - very close!
 * helm test failing ci
 * helm test thing
 * Need to try to get helm test to dump resources manually
 * review zuul.groovy
 * Gerrit upgrade figuring
 * What I'm blocked on
 * Other?
 * Other?

Zeljko

 * What I plan to do this week
 * Moar train
 * T188742 Run tests daily targeting beta cluster for all repositories with Selenium tests
 * fixed for Math
 * What I'm blocked on
 * T188742 failing for Wikibase with `usr/bin/find: cannot delete '/workspace/src/tests/selenium/log': Permission denied`
 * 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