Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20180226

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2018-02-26[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • Mar 2 (Fri): Mukunda vacation day
  • Mar 12-16 (week): Greg vacation
  • Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
  • April 2: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Easter Monday)
  • Apr 3-13: Greg vacation
  • April 16 (Mon): WMF Holiday
  • May 1: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Labor Day / May Day)
  • May 15?/16/17: Team offsite in Barcelona
  • May 18-20: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
  • May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
  • May 31: Ĺ˝eljko (Holidays in Croatia - Corpus Christi)

Rotating positions[edit]

Train[edit]

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-fmcvjrkfvvzz3gxavs3a&statuses=open%28%29&group=none&order=newest#R
  • Feb 19 - wmf.22 - Mukunda
  • Feb 26 - wmf.23 - Tyler <---
  • Mar 05 - wmf.24 - Tyler
  • Mar 12 - wmf.25 - Chad
  • Mar 19 - wmf.26 - Chad
  • Mar 26 - wmf.27 - Mukunda
  • Apr 02 - wmf.28 - Mukunda
  • Apr 09 - wmf.29 - Tyler
  • Apr 16 - wmf.30 - Tyler

SoS[edit]

  • Feb 19 - Chad
  • Feb 26 - Mukunda <---
  • Mar 05 - Mukunda
  • Mar 12 - Tyler
  • Mar 19 - Tyler
  • Mar 26 - Chad
  • Apr 02 - Chad
  • Apr 09 - Mukunda
  • Apr 16 - Mukunda

Team Business[edit]

Updates[edit]

Mid-year check-ins[edit]

A basic check-in: Go over what we hoped we'd do when we talked back for annual review

Then, the outline from T&C:

  • Celebrate accomplishments (highs):
  • What can we learn from (lows):
  • What goals or projects have been completed? What went well, what could have been better?
  • What goals/responsibilities are still ahead? Is any support needed to help get them done? Does any work need to be adjusted (due to departmental/organizational change)?
  • Any peer feedback wanted or given? (Feel free to do this casually via email or conversation.)
    • [Greg: Let me know if anyone wants to do some kind of "ask your peers for feedback", I can set something up.]

Please come prepared to talk about those items; I'll be filling out a document we can look at during the meeting, just for our records. They are not shared with T&C (they will only be checking in with managers to verify the check-ins happened, not what the content was).


Scrum of Scrums[edit]

Greg to copy to etherpad after meeting: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Scrum-of-Scrums

This week[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]

  • Blocking
    • None?
  • Blocked
  • Updates

Last week[edit]

  • Blocking
    • None?
  • Blocked
    • None
  • Updates
    • None


Train status and happenings[edit]

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


Past week status updates[edit]

All of it in table form: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals/201718Q3

Quarterly Goals[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 5: Milestone 1: Develop and migrate to a JavaScript-based browser testing stack[edit]

Due: End of this quarter
What: Specific improvements to the now canonical framework, see: task T182421, notably:
Upgrade webdriverIO to version 4.9
Investigate replacing nodemw with mwbot
Video recording for Selenium tests in Node.js
Task: task T182421
  • T180777 Move portal deployment artifacts into their own repo - minor fix needed to finish running selenium tests to portals/deploy repo
  • T99955 Write browser tests for DonationInterface - minor fix needed to finish the setup
  • T187862 Update README file for Selenium tests - updated readme for core, made some improvements in DonationInterface readme, will copy it to other skins/extensions
  • T187859 Move one Selenium tests from mediawiki/core to mediawiki/skins/Vector - done, waiting for review/merge
  • T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - created patch but it does not work (ERROR: Unexpected token import), will investigate and fix
  • T185315 selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job should have e-mail notification - done, waiting for review/merge

Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure[edit]

Goals
Draft requirements for a Kubernetes based solution for CI - task T183513
Migrate MediaWiki PHPUnit tests to Shipyard (docker-based CI) (~40% of Nodepool usage) - task T183512
Will be worked on after the long tail task T187797
Unify production and CI docker image build process - task T177276
Yes Done 01/15
operations/mediawiki-config.git CI jobs are now solely on Docker task T186145
50% of builds happen on Docker!


Program 3: Outcome 1: Objective 2: Identify and find stewards for high-priority/high use code segment orphans[edit]

Due: End of quarter
task T174091
  • made updates to Stewardship review process, de-emphasizing sunsetting as primary outcome.


Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Define and implement a process to regularly address technical debt across the Foundation[edit]

Due: End of quarter
task T174095
  • worked on TD Blog post series - 2 of 3, Should have draft ready to share out 2/26

Program 3: Outcome 2: Objective 3: Promote and surface important technical debt topics at large gatherings of Wikimedia developers (e.g., DevSummit and Hackathon(s))[edit]

Due: End of next quarter
task T174096
  • no progress

Program 6: Outcome 2: Objective 2: Set up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline[edit]

Due: End of this quarter
Keyword: SSD
phab project: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2453/
Goal:
Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
Functional PoC within integration in the deployment-pipeline
Deploy to isolated k8s

Quaterly non-goal "Work"[edit]

Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)[edit]

workboard


Program 1: Outcome 5: Objective 1: Maintain existing shared Continuous Integration infrastructure[edit]

3d2png and chromium-render services now have CI jobs (based on Docker)

Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit[edit]

  • Started a "Wikimedia" plugin over the weekend :)


Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 2: Maintain Phabricator[edit]

Streamline logspam workflows by adding some integration with phabricator
Store git-lfs (and other phab uploads) in swift: task T182085

Other work[edit]

Post Mortem Meeting - Legacy encoding Code Health Program planning

Standup![edit]

Antoine[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Corner cases with xgboost and wikidata/rdf/query (no tasks filled yet)
    • Testing mediawiki services, can it please be done via Blubber :]
  • Other?
    • Jenkins plugins update. Notably git :(


Chad[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Get back on track with Helm
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Dan[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
  • What I'm blocked on
    • The above reviews ;)
  • Other?
    • Help Tyler debug crazy minikube packaging woes


Greg[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Killer deck for Developer Productivity ask
    • stewardship review with Victoria/Toby
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Nothing? Brain?
  • Other?
    • Mid-year check-in


Jean-Rene[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • complete post 2 of Tech Debt Blog series.
    • Post Mortem 20180129-MediaWiki Incident
    • Q3 Stewardship review w/Victoria and Toby
    • Update stewardship reviews page to include calendar of coming events/timelines
    • Code Health program planning
    • Logspam review/sync up.
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Mukunda[edit]


Tyler[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Train
    • Review Dan's code (blubber updates)
    • Review Mukunda's code (scap plugin)
    • Finalize minkube container
  • What I'm blocked on
    • None
  • Other?


Zeljko[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • T185011 Create selenium-core-jessie daily Jenkins job
    • T180777 Move portal deployment artifacts into their own repo
    • T99955 Write browser tests for DonationInterface
    • T187862 Update README file for Selenium tests
    • T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests
  • What I'm blocked on
    • T187859 Move one Selenium tests from mediawiki/core to mediawiki/skins/Vector - done, waiting for review/merge
    • T185315 selenium-EXTENSION-jessie Jenkins job should have e-mail notification - done, waiting for review/merge
  • Other?
    • T187733 Running smoke tests during deployment - waiting for reply, looking at Tyler o.O
    • T185094 Update page object pattern in Selenium tests - created patch but it does not work (ERROR: Unexpected token import)

Grooming[edit]

Team Kanban Board Review and Triage[edit]


Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)[edit]


Kanban stats[edit]

Burnup chart
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