Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/Template
2018-02-12[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- Feb 2nd: Mukunda vacation day
- Feb 19 (Mon): President's Day (All US Staff)
- Mar 30 (Fri): WMF Holiday
- April 14 (Fri): WMF Holiday
- May 15?/16/17: Team offsite in Barcelona
- May 18-20: Wikimedia Hackathon in Barcelona
- May 21 (Mon): Tech-Mgt F2F
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 05 - wmf.20 - Chad
- Feb 12 - wmf.21 - Mukunda
- 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 05 - Tyler
- Feb 12 - Chad
- 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]
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
- Ops: "Stack overflow when Redis is down" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185055
- Would like some guidance from Ops on the documentation bits Gergo identifies
- Ops: "Stack overflow when Redis is down" - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185055
- Updates
Train status and happenings[edit]
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
[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
- Unify production and CI docker image build process - task T177276
- Â Done 01/15
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
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
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
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
- Verify basic functionality of 'production' deployment and image (initially targeting mathoid):
Quaterly non-goal "Work"[edit]
Program 1: Outcome 1: Objective 1: Scap (Tech Debt Sprint FY201718-Q2)[edit]
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Program 1: Outcome 6: Milestone 1: Maintain Gerrit[edit]
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]
Standup![edit]
Antoine[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Chad[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Dan[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Mukunda[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko[edit]
- What I plan to do
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Grooming[edit]
Team Kanban Board Review and Triage[edit]
- closed and touched in the 7 days
- No update for 4 weeks
- No update for 3 weeks
- No update for 2 weeks
- No update for 1 week
- All Open
- Review To Triage column of #releng
Once / month-ish review of backlog(s)[edit]
- releng Review To Triage column of #releng
- releng-kanban Review unassigned in kanban
- releng-kanban Review 'backlog' colum of -kanban
- releng-next - Review for things we need to put on our kanban backlog
- releng-backlog - oh my, the huge backlog of things...