Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170118

2017-01-18

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• Jan 26-27: Chad, maybe
• February 20: President's Day
• March 13: Monthly day off
• April 14: Monthly day off

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week 1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=0
• week 2: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OZzvtlc116UIsFFbic1zX34LXgAJddPTXMGVE6uMsJw/edit#gid=1351469163

Rotating positions and absences

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

Jan 9 and Jan 16

• Train: Chad
  • No train week of Jan 9th
  • wmf.8
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • Jan 9/10/11: DevSummit (Greg and Chad)
  • Jan 12/13: All Hands (Everyone but Antione)

Jan 23 and Jan 30

• Train: Mukunda
  • wmf.9
  • wmf.10
• SoS: Dan
• Out:
  • ...

Feb 6 and Feb 13

• Train: Tyler
  • wmf.11
  • wmf.12
• SoS: Chad
• Out:
  • ...

Actions from last meeting

• Greg: reply to kubernetes email to ops
  •  Done

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
  • Train/deploys back to normal

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates
  • No train next week
  • New person! JR Branaa, come say hi

Other Team Business

Skill Matrix!

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix

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 :/

Mid-year check-in

• What? When?
  • not this week :/

Quarterly Review

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V6H_ebe0WTQey4AsivgF7j7BrsEnX6ystKgSa7wO_eA/edit#slide=id.g1b66bc6307_0_90

Annual Planning

• That time again!
• We need to have a draft high level goal for our team, due Monday 1/23.
• This is really a non-tactical/plan thing.

Q3 goal/project check-in

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q3

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270

• Tyler will schedule stalk people

Migrate MediaWiki deploys to scap3 (part 2 — This time, it's personal; A.K.A Scappy Strikes Back)

Build fanout support in scap3

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276

Phabricator

Re-evaluate and improve search functionality in Phabricator - task T146843

Non-Quarterly goal work

• Multiversion is almost untangled. \o/
• mw-config backlog went from 120 to 60 last week (!!!)

Browser tests

• T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing

People status updates

Chad

Last week

All hands + dev summit

This week

Train, multiversion cleanups, scap, gerrit

JR

Last week

Wramp-up (environment,people), All-hands, Administrative

This week

QA Interview prep (question, people), Wramp-up cont...

Mukunda

Last week

• All hands

This week

• Made a large amount of progress on porting Scap 3 to Python 3
• Phabricator Phabricator Phabricator

Tyler

Last week

• Talking

This week

• Scap 3.5.0
• Setup some kind of requirements gather meeting for CI thangs.

Željko

Last week

• All Hands

This week

• jet lag
• T155640 selenium-Core Jenkins job failing
• T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster