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2017-02-06

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • February 20: President's Day
  • March 13: Monthly day off
  • April 14: Monthly day off
  • May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
  • May 19-21: EU Hackathon

Team Business

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Time spent spreadsheet

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Rotating positions and absences

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

Feb 6 and Feb 13

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Actions from last meeting

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  • Mukunda: Logspam next steps

Scrum of Scrums

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

This week

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Last week

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  • Blocking
  • Blocked
  • Updates
    • scap 3.5 planned for this week


Other Team Business

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DC switch over

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LOGSPAMMMM!!!111!!eleven

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  • Mukunda will write a thing
  • Logspam has improved in the sense that Mukunda has filtered out a ton in the main dashboard


Annual Planning

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Q3 goal/project check-in

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

Continuous Integration Infrastructure modernization

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Gather requirements for new CI system - task T153270
  • unscheduled maintenance :)
    • Chase wrote a monitoring script that monitors nodepool (as a canary for WMF Labs itself)
  • now will have a regularly scheduled meeting for it :)
    • bugging marko to attend
      • future of docker.js etc (how to standardize the build entrypoint)

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

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Build fanout support in scap3

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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121276
  • A few bugs from 3.5 that should be resolved sooner than later


Phabricator

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


Non-Quarterly goal work

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Browser tests

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Beta Cluster

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People status updates

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • contint2001
    • Gotta loop back with Daniel Zahn
      • SKIPPED... :(
  • finish MediaWiki (tarball) releases test job https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/job/mediawiki-releases/
    • More patches to fix up everything
      • PEnding reviews
  • get a bump of Nodepool pool
      • Busy with maintenance work
  • EasyTime line debug logging as possible
    • Revamped a bit of EasyTimeline. Patch still pending
  • announce rspec for puppet.git to ops
    • Pending a serie of patches that adds syntax check via rake

This week

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Chad

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Last week

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  • Gerrit
  • Logspam
  • Scap
  • Phab / Elastic stuff

This week

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  • Moar gerrit (bane of my freaking life)
  • Logspam (I may make some enemies here)
  • Scap (fix puppet manifests vis a vis git-fat)

Dan

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Last week

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  • Moar research
  • Formulate first steps on container building infra PoC

This week

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JR

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Last week

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  • Continue reviewing past "escapes". Identify first pass interviewees and schedule interviews, build knowledge re CI now and future, build knowledge of current QA/Test processes.

This week

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  • investigate test results reporting
  • investigate coorelating escapes to test coverage
  • schedule Quality 1:1s

Mukunda

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Last week

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  • Deployment train, 1.29.0-wmf.10 / T155525
  • write up thoughts on fighting logspam
    • didn't happen

This week

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Tyler

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Last week

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  • Docker/K8s learnings
  • Try not to pay attention to the news cycle
  • CI/Deployment meeting setup
  • The inevitable Scap3 fallout

This week

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  • Train
  • Scheduling and attending meetings
  • Writing things on phab in a vain attempt to curtail the ineluctable onslaught of logspam

Željko

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Last week

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  • T156558 Selenium user: Auth issues on beta wikidata?
  • T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
  • T151442 Research webdriver.io
  • T156837 Release mediawiki_api 0.7.1

This week

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  • T152963 Increase in failures caused by Saucelabs
  • T152432 Make it possible to execute tests as a specific (new) MediaWiki user on beta cluster