2016-05-23

Vacations/Important dates

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

Greg's parental leave plan, visually: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YVRFSmu_pt0d72JnlRZJeasPHHDAOp1Yir_eTSQU_xQ/edit
May 20: Antoine
May 26-27: Željko - local holiday
Late May - draft Q1 (July 1st - Sept 30th) due
May 30: US HOLIDAY - Memorial Day
June 1st: Tyler - afternoon only
June 15-24: Chad - Vegas/EDC
June 22nd - 28th : Wikimania in Italy
July 1st - Q1 goals published
July 1st – Annual Plan, Budget, Risks Document and FAQ are posted
August: Antoine - France holiday - because french. :)
August 1st - 5th: Mukunda - vacation: Concert & relaxation
August 22-September 9: Dan - paternity leave part deux
January 2017 : Dev Summit + All Hands (presumably)

Team Business

Rotating positions

Train conductor

Week of ...

Jan 11 (wmf.10): Dan
Jan 18 (wmf.11) - T125143: Dan
Jan 25 (wmf.11) - T125143: Dan
Feb 01 (wmf.12) - T125475: Antoine with Dan pairing
Feb 08 (wmf.13) - T125596: Chad
Feb 15 (wmf.14) - T125597: Antoine
Feb 22 (wmf.14) - T125597: Chad
Feb 29 (wmf.15) - T127086: Chad
Mar 07 (wmf.16) - T128218: Mukunda
Mar 14 (wmf.17) - T128872: Mukunda
Mar 21 (wmf.18) - T129691: Tyler
Mar 28 (wmf.19) - T130227: Tyler
Apr 04 (wmf.20) - T130945: Dan
Apr 11 (wmf.21) - T131555: Chad
Apr 18: Master datacenter switch
Apr 25 (wmf.22) - T131556: Antoine/Chad -- Apr 26 busy in the evening :(
- Wikitech Deployments page updated
1.28?
May 2 1.28?? - T131557: Antoine/Chad -- 5-6 bank holidays in France
May 9 1.28?? - T131559: Chad/Antoine :-)
May 16 : Mukunda
May 23rd - Mukunda (roll-forward Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) + Antoine (cut branch Tuesday)
May 30th: Tyler.
June 6th: Tyler.

Maniphest query for these tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers

Scrum of Scrums representative

(bad time for EU folks) Dan, Tyler, Chad, Mukunda Week of ...

Feb 08: Tyler
Feb 15: Dan
Feb 22: Tyler
Feb 29: Tyler
Mar 07: Chad
Mar 14: Chad
Mar 21: Mukunda
Mar 28: Mukunda
Apr 04: Tyler
Apr 11: Tyler
Apr 18: Tyler/Mukunda
Apr 25: Tyler/Mukunda
May 02: Mukunda
May 09: Chad
May 15: Tyler
May 23: Tyler
May 30: Chad?
June 6: Chad?

CI point person

How was it Tyler? :)
- That one documentation page he wrote...

Other Team Business

can we find a set of things that a contractor would be a useful investment in?
- calendar stuffs for code-review/deployments/etc???

Personal annual goals - deadline of July 1st - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134517
- Personal quarterly goals as well?

FYI: "Data Map" request from Legal - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133239
- TL;DR:
  - Fill out this spreadsheet with datasets (of user info) we collect: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SqsPr2aDDjPE3J1JtsYYemU4vY-stzqtIRyXvXWYOLA/edit#gid=1498056743
    - Due: End of May
  - We might make our own data access policy, if we want
    - https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/document/d/10LIB7L2NsKSOLnEDxmDon-0PBz_2yxPDjOCEVpCS9A8/edit?usp=sharing

Phabricator priority thing from Quim...

Q4 goal/project check-in

Consolidate deploy tools / Train 2.0

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Train2.0

Migrate remaining services to scap3

Services Team owned services and MW - T109926

All other services - T129290

sub command in scap 3.2.x
keyholder key cleanup:
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/289236/
- seems likely to merge soon / finally.
Migration list of doom

Differential Migration

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/Differential_Migration

All tasks tagged for this quarter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/9/query/dNy2.aRJEM82/

Initial documentation of example Differential workflows (with Gerrit equivalents) - T117058

Phase 1 repository migration - T130418

Migrate wikimedia-iegreview to Differential - T132174

Migrate wikimedia-wikimania-scholarships to Differential - T132173

Spec out needed glue for Differential to Gearman to Nodepool - T130949

Determine method of getting changes (diffs) to the nodepool instances - T131378

Cross-repository gating of changes pre-merge in Differential - T131955

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D233

Should wait until Github replication is managed by Phab

End_to_End_test_language_expansion

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Project/End_to_End_test_language_expansion

Evaluate available JavaScript end-to-end testing frameworks. - T108874

Prototype new JS framework. - T131121

Send out user satisfaction survey. - T131123

- Željko working on his JavaScript skills - Željko will ping Dan, he needs to become owner of Malu NPM package so he can update it https://www.npmjs.com/package/malu

Non-Quarterly goal work

CI Scaling/Nodepool

Mw extensions PHP jobs to move to Nodepool instances
Jenkins upgrade on hold due to incompatbility of the Jenkins Gearman plugin. Details at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133737
I have learned Homebrew let you install Gearman/Jenkins easily ;-}

Browser tests

- slow progress on Ownership of Selenium tests https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134492

 - 4 repos still do not have owners, including mediawiki/core

- Migration of browsertests* Jenkins jobs to selenium* jobs finished https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128190

 - the last repository to move was Wikidata
 - browsertests-Wikidata* job are not yet deleted https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/view/-Dashboard/
 - moved repos are pretty stable, but far for perfect https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/Selenium/

Beta Cluster

deployment-tin cannot ssh.

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134777 - deployment-tin ssh: Connection closed by UNKNOWN
- Solved, due to some cherry pick
- check local users created by puppet overriding LDAP users