Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190318

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2019-03-18[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • March 29–April 1: James out (New Hampshire)
  • April 9-12: Greg at tech-mgt F2F in Portland
  • April 17-19 (Wednesday - Friday) - Ĺ˝eljko vacation
  • April 22 (WMF Holiday) - US Staff
  • April 22-27: Team offsite in Chicago
  • April 29: Moved WMF Holiday for US staff at offsite
  • May 1st - Lars, Antoine and Ĺ˝eljko, Labor Day / May Day
  • May 8th - Antoine, 1945 victory
  • May 15 (Wednesday) - Ĺ˝eljko vacation
  • May 16-20 - Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (Prague, Czechia)
    • Attending: Greg, JR, Zeljko, James, and Jeena
  • May 30th-31th - Antoine, Feast of the Ascension
  • June 10th - Antoine, Pentecost -- see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastertide for Antoine/France Easter holidays
  • May 27 (Memorial Day) - US Staff
  • June 6-7 - Brennen, Apogaea
  • June 19 (Juneteenth) - US Staff
  • July 22 - August 9 - Ĺ˝eljko vacation
  • August 25 - September 4 - Brennen vacation

Rotating positions[edit]

Train[edit]

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
  • Jan 07 - wmf.12 - Dan
  • Jan 14 - wmf.13 - Dan
  • Jan 21 - wmf.14 - Mukunda
  • Jan 28 - wmf.15 - No Train (All Hands)
  • Feb 04 - wmf.16 - Mukunda
  • Feb 11 - wmf.17 - Tyler
  • Feb 18 - wmf.18 - Tyler
  • Feb 25 - wmf.19 - Antoine
  • Mar 04 - wmf.20 - Antoine
  • Mar 11 - wmf.21 - Zeljko
  • Mar 18 - wmf.22 - Zeljko
  • Mar 25 - wmf.23 - Dan
  • Apr 01 - wmf.24 - Dan
  • Apr 08 - wmf.25 - Mukunda
  • Apr 15 - 1.34.0-wmf.1 - Mukunda
  • Apr 22 - wmf.2 - NO TRAIN, team offsite
  • Apr 29 - wmf.3 - Tyler
  • May 06 - wmf.4 - Tyler
  • May 13 - wmf.5 - Antoine
  • May 20 - wmf.6 - Antoine
  • May 27 - wmf.7 - Zeljko
  • June 03 - wmf.8 - Zeljko

SoS[edit]

  • Zeljko 4eva! :)

Team Business[edit]

Book club[edit]


Spring Offsite[edit]


Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '19 edition[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!


Q4 Goals planning[edit]

etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-1819Q4-goals
Due: Monday March 18th, aka this Friday

Posted online at their respective locations:

Annual Planning is coming up[edit]


Incoming/Needs attention[edit]

Pywikibot CI[edit]


Merge blocker: The table 'l10n_cache' is full in quibble-vendor-mysql-hhvm-docker[edit]

Merge blocker: quibble-vendor-mysql-hhvm-docker in gate fails for most merges (exit status -11)[edit]

Merge blocker: Failed to create /nonexistent/.pki/nssdb directory[edit]

FYI: Wikimedia-production-error (Shared Build Failure)[edit]


Cannot access beta cluster db[edit]


Deploy Extension:WikimediaEditorTasks to Beta[edit]

branch cutting[edit]

  • our current branch cut method is broken due to HTTP Token on gerrit being disabled for security reasons.


Scrum of Scrums[edit]

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

Incoming from last week[edit]

  • Blocking:


Outgoing this week (wrong section heading is on purpose for copy/pasting into Scrum of Scrums etherpad[edit]

Release Engineering[edit]


Callouts[edit]

  • Release Engineering


Train status and happenings[edit]

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



Quarterly Goals for Q3[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Goals/2018-19_Q3

TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1[edit]

GOAL: Automate the generation of change log notes
WHO: Mukunda, (Tyler on backup)


TEC1 (Maint): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1[edit]

GOAL: Investigate notification methods for developers with changes that are riding any given train
WHO: Mukunda, Tyler


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2[edit]

GOAL: Instrument Quibble for data collection
WHO: Mukunda, Antoine
  • I haven't gotten any responses about where to put the data. Hopefully graphite & promethius will work. Otherwise I guess logstash?


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 1 / Output 1.2[edit]

GOAL: Create a graph where time is spent and make a prioritized list for improvements.
WHO: Mukunda, Antoine


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 2 / Output 2.1[edit]

GOAL: Select and integrate a code health metric solution into our tooling.
WHO: JR, ...


TEC3 (Pipeline): Outcome 3 / Output 3.1[edit]

GOALS:
Adopt more services into Deployment pipeline - task T212801
cxserver, ORES (partially), citoid, changeprop, cpjobqueue (stretch)
Deploy eventgate
WHO: Dan, Tyler, Lars
  • changeprop


TEC12 (DevProd): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1[edit]

GOAL: Conduct interviews with development stakeholders and compile a report that informs future work creation of a rubric.
WHO: Jeena, Mukunda


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 1 / Output 1.1[edit]

GOALs:
Develop and communicate guidelines and best practices for successful Code Stewardship.
(Continued from Q2) Update/refresh review queue (review process for initial code deployment)
WHO: JR

relocated Code Stewardship page and created base structure for Resources/Best practices.

TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.2[edit]

GOAL: 5 of the 15 prioritized repositories have at least 1 end-to-end test - task T206621
WHO: Zeljko



TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 2 / Output 2.3[edit]

GOALs:
Evolve/develop tools and processes to support the PE refactoring effort to improve code health.
Develop common test strategy that enable teams to engage in more effective and efficient testing practices. (maybe should be output 2.4?)
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 3 / Output 3.2[edit]

GOALs:
Speak at All Hands on the status of Technical Debt
Engage and coach development teams on their approach to managing technical debt.
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team


TEC13 (Code Health): Outcome 4 / Output 4.1[edit]

GOALs: Code Health Dashboard with 50% of repositories covered.
WHO: JR, Core Platform Team

Waiting on patch review/merge from RelEng. Upon merge, all extensions will have ability to run experimental to perform code analysis


Other non-goal work[edit]

Selenium[edit]

Gerrit[edit]

Phabricator[edit]

  • Vandalism revert tool should have been finished last week but that didn't happen, should be done this week.

Jenkins[edit]

QA/Code Health[edit]

SCAP[edit]

Standup![edit]

Antoine[edit]


Brennen[edit]


Dan[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Nada
  • Other?


Greg[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Quality discussion
    • Schedule a meeting for us before offsite to talk annual planning kickoff
    • TechConf planning meeting and follow-up with Deb/etc
    • "Wikimedia Foundation's Health and WellBeing Benefits Survey", due Friday March 22nd
      • will email reminder to team list
    • Write down some more notes about CD book
  • What I'm blocked on
    • A bit sick as well :/
  • Other?

James[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Most SDC stuff (potentially bumpy train deployment, as there's a DOM change for Commons File pages)
    • Train blocker fun
    • More CD reading.
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Jean-Rene[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Continue work on test strategy
    • continue work of Code Stewardship best practices
    • Q4 Code Health Metrics WG goals.
    • Start work on DevEd Unit testing work with Guillaume
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Jeena[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Figure out helm charts issue turning number strings into floats. Then finish and test mediawiki automated install for local-charts
    • Update my computer to try and stop it from frrreezing and shutting down
    • Read book
    • Work on documentation for local-charts
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Lars[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Read CD book chapter 7, prepare for and particpate in book club meeting on Thursday.
    • Finish the CI WG work as much as possible (deadline on Monday next week).
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?


Mukunda[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • Figure out storage for quibble instrumentation
    • Finish deploying vandalism revert tool in phabricator
    • Document branch cut via ssh / pushInsteadOf
  • What I'm blocked on
    • No storage for metrics from quibble. I'm hoping to use promethius to collect the metrics if I can figure it out.
  • Other?


Tyler[edit]

  • What I plan to do this week
    • fix wikimedia branch cut docs
    • blubber policy; made upstream patch
    • kosta and paladox review. My review queue is backed up :(
  • What I'm blocked on
  • Other?
    • sick :(
    • brain scatter


Zeljko[edit]


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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