Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20170424

2017-04-24

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• April 27-29th: Antoine in Amsterdam (unreacheable)
• May 1: Željko local holiday (Labor Day / May Day)
• May 15-18: Team Offsite in Vienna
• May 19-21: EU Hackathon
• July 10-14th: Tyler adventure time

Team Business

Time spent spreadsheet

• week: 16: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I9VraCrlQLK3KjbS4yi3K8XgLQ2SgyADMNH1dh1ky1A/edit#gid=2063439155

Rotating positions and absences

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

April 17 and Apr 24

• Train: Mukunda
  • week of 17th: no deploys (dc switchover)
  • wmf.21
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:
  • April 17th: Antoine travel
  • April 19-21: Željko vacation
  • April 27-29th: Antoine in Amsterdam (unreacheable)

May 1 and May 8

• Train: Mukunda
  • week of the 1st: no deploys (dc switchover)
  • wmf.22
• SoS: Tyler
• Out:

May 15 and May 22

• Train:
  • week of 15th: team offsite, no train
  • [ wmf.23]
• SoS: Mukunda
• Out:

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

Last week

• Blocking
• Blocked
• Updates

Other Team Business

Logspam

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

• Closed logspam tasks:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162941
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138429

Q4 goal/project check-in

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201617Q4

Streamlined Services Delivery

Build a runnable image from tested and confirmed code that is suitable for promotion.

define 'tested and confirmed' / determine the entry-point for building a container

generate or consume a docker file for building

build image, upload and tag it in docker registry

• no meeting last week (due to Quarterly Checkin)
• images are pushing to own docker registery
• wrote an experimental build config tool compile-to-Dockerfile thingy called Blubber
  • https://github.com/marxarelli/blubber
• Will discuss JR's req's doc this week

sub-point: quality interview summary/writeup

• JR has it 99% done, wants to present to team, probably next week

Train 2.0

Move MW+Extension deploys to scap3 - task T114313 (part 3)

Integrate scap with etcd/pybal to automatically depool and repool servers - task T104352

• Mukunda has a patch to get the client included on tin/naos
• sidenote: Joe has mw-config and etcd setup on Beta Cluster, see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156924

Release MediaWiki 1.29

A quality MediaWiki 1.29 is successfully released - task T153271

• Branching this week
• Did some preliminary investigation re: standalone Jenkins for release pipelining
  • Going to request a Ganeti VM this week

Non-Quarterly goal work

Phabricator

• Intermittent outages over last week, probably due to spidering/crawling
  • See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163507

Browser tests

• Zeljko was on vacation :)

People status updates

Antoine

Last week

• Redis "could not connect" log spam with Elukey
• POC for caching npm install
• hide chocolates in garden
• cleaned out bunch of legacy CI jobs (jsonlint/jshint)

This week

• Travel

Chad

Last week

• Scap
• MW 1.29 work
• Gerrit security thingie

This week

• MW 1.29
• Gerrit security thing (again)

Dan

Last week

• Catch up on last week's email and progress on CI quarterly goal

This week

• Work more on proofing Blubber

JR

Last week

• CI Pipeline requirements
• Test data wrangling improvements
• Bug data wrangling improvements

This week

• Test data wrangling improvements
• Bug data wrangling improvements

Mukunda

Last week

• Finish config diffs https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118206
• Logspam cleanup
• catch up with chad about pybal/conftool

This week

• Train
• Further investigate Phabricator outages
• Phabricator update (pull from upstream)
• SCAP3 stuffs

Tyler

Last week

• Push image to ci-staging
• Push forward https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/347130/
• Couple of scap bug things: canaries, all patches for individual repos

This week

• Build image with blubber to push to ci-staging
• scap canary work:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/348475/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136839

Željko

Last week

- holiday + vacation

This week

• T162966 Figure out why browser tests can't create suggestion box
• T162454 LanguageScreenshotBot fails with `Error: timeout of 40000ms exceeded. Ensure the done() callback is being called in this test.