Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20161212
2016-12-12[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
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 ~23 - ~ Jan 03: Antoine (yearly trip around the country for familly events)
- 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 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
Team Business[edit]
Time spent spreadsheet[edit]
Rotating positions and absences[edit]
Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/u/blockers
Dec 12 and Dec 19[edit]
- Train: Mukunda
- wmf.6
- no train/deploys week of Dec 19
- SoS: Chad
- Out:
- none?
Dec 26 and Jan 2[edit]
- Train: Tyler
- No train/deploys week of Dec 26
- [ wmf.7]
- SoS: Dan
- Out:
- Week of Dec 26th: Everyone
- Jan 2nd: New Year's Day observed
Actions from last meeting[edit]
- Greg: write the Q3 CI goal
- DONE
- Greg: Start conversation re Beta in prod and per-server rollouts
Scrum of Scrums[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/64/
- Blocked on us: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/h7YTCBTJsepS/#R
This week[edit]
- Blocking
- Blocked
- Updates
- Reminder last week for deployments is this week until Jan 3rd: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-November/086936.html
Last week[edit]
- 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
Other Team Business[edit]
Volunteer deployers ?[edit]
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.
QA Hire[edit]
- Doing reference checks on one candidate today/tomorrow
- circle up tomorrow with interview loop (probably a short meeting)
Q2 goal/project check-in[edit]
Future of CI plan[edit]
- Determine future composition of the CI infrastructure with a plan on how to get there without disrupting expected services and performance.
- Good meeting with Ops on Thursday (!!!)
- see: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-ops-ci-sync
- next steps:
- Chase + Dan talking re Kubernetes this week
- Explore Beta in production
- Explore per server/percentage based rollouts
- others?
- What do we put as our goals for Q3 and... beyond!...?
- Curious what Gabriel is working on...https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152684#2860452
Off meeting: need a reference disk/image
Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 1)[edit]
Use a unified git repo for MW deploys[edit]
- On beta
- Needs some cleanup -- lots of space used
- git gc/repack/pack-refs etc
- Needs some cleanup -- lots of space used
Assess new directory structure and how it will interplay with MW[edit]
see above
Stretch goal: Replace rsync with git syncing[edit]
nope. still nope :)
Release MediaWiki 1.28[edit]
 Done
Non-Quarterly goal work[edit]
Browser tests[edit]
- T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension
- T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster
Beta Cluster[edit]
Phabricator[edit]
- Phabricator is getting 'compare branches' functionality
- Deploying this week: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHDEPcf34cf262ed5a07adfe5643c315e94a8f6f9d825
DB Inconsistencies[edit]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132416 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104459 (see also: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Development_policy#Database_patches )
People status updates[edit]
Antoine[edit]
Last week[edit]
- EasyTimeline fix for Chinese wikipedia
- OK
- Nodepool/Permanent slaves doc
- ????
- Dig in migrating jobrunner deployment to scap3
- skip
- Speed up boot of Nodepool instances (DHCP related issues delayed boot by ~ 30 seconds)
- Played with Docker on scap repo
This week[edit]
- 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
Chad[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Train + gerrit upgrade (and login snafu)
This week[edit]
- Sorting a few last gerrit things (submodules)
- Scap3 stuff
Dan[edit]
Last week[edit]
This week[edit]
- Scap3 rollback refactoring
- K8s meeting with Chase and follow up experiments for CI PoC
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator
- Continue experimenting with elasticsearch
- Come up with a way to a/b test queries on both mysql and elasticsearch
- Done - append ?elastic=1 to your query url
- Come up with a way to a/b test queries on both mysql and elasticsearch
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSCAPEXT1908191626ddc143556422071e18e1eedfaef511
- Continue experimenting with elasticsearch
This week[edit]
- Deploying:
- Maybe this week (if deployments don't eat up all the time)
- fail over to phab2001
- reimage iridium to jessie, renamed to phab1001
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- moar scap code review
- Some puppet patches incoming, likely for ci-staging stuff
This week[edit]
- Finish up scap mw quarterly goal things
- May actually get to ci-staging this week :)
Željko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- T152422 Release new version of mediawiki_selenium
- T146916 RSpec tests for Echo Mention notification
- T117418 Ensure ChromeDriver is installed for jobs that run Selenium tests
- T139740 Port Selenium tests from Ruby to Node.js
- T151442 Research webdriver.io
- T151443 Research nightwatchjs
- T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension
- T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster
- QA hire
- SWAT deploy
This week[edit]
- SWAT deploy
- T151443 Research nightwatchjs
- T152683 Set up Selenium tests for Kartographer extension
- T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster