Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20160208

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2016-02-08[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

How to do it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

  • Feb 3rd - core narrative annual plan due
  • Feb 15: US HOLIDAY - President's Day
  • March 4th - strategic narrative annual plan due
  • March 11th - draft Q4 (April 1st - June 30th) goals due
  • March 31st - April 3rd : Hackathon in Israel
  • April 1st - Q4 goals published
  • May 9-Mid June-ish?: Greg - paternity leave - exact dates TBD
  • May 17-(?): Dan - paternity leave :D
  • Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
  • May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
  • June (mid): Chad - EDC
  • June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
  • July 1st - Q1 goals published
  • July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
  • August: France holiday - because french. :)
  • January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business[edit]

Actions from last meeting[edit]

  • TODO - No One Yet: investigate carbon aggregation of stats >1 month old behavior
    • ACTION: Antoine to create a task
      • Overdue

New vs Maint time spent[edit]

Scrum of Scrums[edit]

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


Train Deploy Conductor[edit]

FYI: I've created a "blockers" task for the upcoming wmf.XX branches, good idea? bad idea? almost good idea?

Team has consensus that the blocker tasks are useful.

Week of ...

  • Feb 1: Antoine with Dan pairing
  • Feb 8: Antoine
  • Feb 15: Antoine
  • Feb 22: Chad
  • Feb 29: Chad
  • Mar 7: Mukunda
  • Mar 14: Mukunda
  • Mar 21: Tyler

Other Team Business[edit]

  • Scrum of Scrums rotation
    • Tyler the next couple/few weeks
  • CI point person rotation?
    • Antoine: maybe first levelup people
    • also complete the nodepool migration to make it easier to understand
    • No hurries for now, reassess next week
  • FTE/time allotment for budget

Project 1: We will maintain and improve our deployment/release process by switching to a long-lived production branching technique and incorporating the feature set of scap3 into our MediaWiki deploys. Project 2: The pain and slowness in setting up new projects within our Continuous Integration (CI) environment is strongly felt by all. We will migrate our CI configuration from a central repository owned by a few people to project-specific repos owned by the project owners themselves.

Name or Open Req # -- Title -- Assigned to Project described above

Antoine Musso - Software Engineer

  • Project #2 - 85%

Chad Horohoe - Senior Software Engineer

  • Project #1 - 85%

Dan Duvall - Software Engineer

  • Project #1 - 42%
  • Project #2 - 43%

Greg Grossmeier - Release Team Manager

  • Project #1 - 30%
  • Project #2 - 30%

Mukunda Modell - Software Engineer

  • Project #1 - 85%

Tyler Cipriani - Software Engineer

  • Project #1 - 65%
  • Project #2 - 20%

Zeljko Filipin - QA Engineer

  • Project #2 - 85%

Wikimania attendance[edit]

https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page June 22–23 (pre-conference), 24–26 (main conference) and 27–28 (post-conference), 2016.

Who wants to go?

  • Antoine: No, unless needed
  • Chad: No
  • Dan:
  • Greg: No
  • Mukunda:No
  • Tyler: No
  • Zeljko: No preference, driving distance for me, 7 hours

MW-Vagrant help[edit]

Dan: HELP! Chad: sure thing

progress was made

Annual Planning[edit]

Spreadsheet (team only) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GBokh9zeO5vflAAZLjMuagV4FeFQHCFrApjs_KXNZ7o/edit#gid=0
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Team_Practices_Group/Tracking_core_and_strategic_work

Past ideas and things:

Planning etherpad (for any notes we want to create on this): https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1617-plan-ideas

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZsB0RCoZD3a6qKsX-qkCpA3HK81mNrZYI3GXeiuzzI0/edit#gid=0


Q3 goal/project check-in[edit]

Reduce CI Wait time[edit]

KPI: https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/releng-kpis?panelId=2&fullscreen

Kunal patching up to support Zend 5.3 / 5.5 / hhvm in parallel -  :) Jan looking at running MediaWiki core support for 'composer test' Antoine migrating services to nodejs 4.2 and then other repos

MediaWiki --testsuite extensions runs test from all extensions. Usually not needed when the patch is made against an extension. No task filled yet.

Zend 5.3 is gone from Wikimedia cluster

    • gotta delete php53 jobs from wmf branch, hhvm is enough
    • should help SWAT merge times

Dan/Zeljko mediawiki_selenium 1.6.5 More repos need to have browser tests on patch proposal?

  • job is mwext-mw-selenium

Consolidate deploy tools[edit]

Migrate MediaWiki to scap3 - task T114313
Q2 Quarterly Goal hold over: Migrate all Service team owned services and MW deploys to scap3 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109926
  • Potential miss on this - "I have no feeling of optimism"
    • puppet provider
      • should be done today 2/8
    • patches are ready, just need to land and test in Beta
    • muther effing unknown unknowns


Differential Migration[edit]

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/diffuerential-weekly
Integrate Differential with our Continuous Integration infrastructure - task T31
Shepherd the RFC - task T119908
Discuss at WikiDev16 - task T114320
Garner early adopter projects (goal: 1 project per WMF "team")

Other Work[edit]

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