How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to find out!
Incidents
There were no incidents this January. Pfew! Remember to review and schedule Incident Follow-up work <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4758/> in Phabricator. These are preventive measures and tech debt mitigations written down after an incident is concluded. Read about past incidents at Incident status <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_status> on Wikitech.
Trends
During 2021, I compared us to the median of 4 incidents per month, as measured over the two years prior (2019-2020).
I'm glad to announce our median has lowered to 3 per month over the past two years (2020-2021). For more plots and numbers about our incident documentation, refer to Incident stats <https://codepen.io/Krinkle/full/wbYMZK>.
Since the previous edition, we resolved 17 tasks from previous months. In January, there were 45 new error reports <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/f24Xwi0bGGZU/#R> of which 28 have been resolved within the same month, the remaining 17 have carried over to February.
With precisely 17 tasks both closed and added, the workboard remains at the exact total of 298 open tasks, for the third month in a row. That's quite the coincidence.
Figure 1: Unresolved error reports by month. <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/266/production_excellence…>
Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help.
→ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/
Thanks!
Thank you to everyone who helped by reporting, investigating, or resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks!
Until next time,
– Timo Tijhof
*🎸 Doc Brown <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II>*: *It could mean that that point in time contains some cosmic significance.., as if it were the temporal junction point of the entire space-time continuum… Or it could just be an amazing coincidence.*
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The Search Platform Team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> usually holds an
open meeting on the first Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about
anything related to Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service, Wikimedia
Commons Query Service, etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Time: 16:00-17:00 GMT / 08:00-09:00 PST / 11:00-12:00 EST / 17:00-18:00 CET
& WAT
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Hope to talk to you next week!
—Trey
Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC–5 / EST
Hello, I am Fiza Khan, an undergraduate computer science student. I'm new
to open source but well acquainted with css, html, javascript, bootstrap
framework, c++, ruby on rails. I would love to contribute to your
organisation. I don't have any idea how to get started in your
organisation. Is there any slack or other channel for further queries?
Looking forward to hearing from you
Thanks and Regards
Fiza Khan
tl;dr: Backport windows will shift earlier in the (UTC) day starting on
Mon, Feb 14th.
*Problem*
Some backport windows have few deployers, and windows are not evenly
distributed for global users—the window times slant US-centric.
*Solution*
tl;dr: we made a spreadsheet
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-bMfSzzzNxaOswFgqxkGVhfBnTenYL0Rw8X…>
(Antoine
did, actually).
After discussing with backport and train deployers, we're shifting backport
window timeslots to:
1. Evenly distribute backport windows – the IST timezone had no good
time to deploy
2. Provide better deployer coverage – the late afternoon backport window
(which previously happened at 4pm Pacific) often had few deployers (and few
users)
Here's a schedule that will be live *Mon, Feb 14th *(my Valentine's day
present to you all)
- 08:00 UTC 🔙 Early Backport
- 14:00 UTC 🔙 Afternoon Backport
- 21:00 UTC 🔙 Evening Backport
Train
- 09:00 UTC 🚂 UTC-0 (Antoine) Train
- 19:00 UTC 🚂 UTC-7 (US) Train
Big(ish) Changes
- UTC-7 train is an hour earlier
- Swapped with the backport window so backport is now after train
- UTC-Early backport is much earlier
- UTC-Late backport is pretty early, too
<3
Tyler Cipriani (he/him)
Engineering Manager, Release Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2022-01): 290
Active Maniphest users (any activity) in (2022-01): 1036
Task authors in (2022-01): 547
Users who have closed tasks in (2022-01): 287
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2022-01): 289
Tasks created in (2022-01): 2176
Tasks closed in (2022-01): 2203
Open and stalled tasks in total: 49069
* Only open tasks in total: 48175
* Only stalled tasks in total: 894
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 5
Needs Triage: 739
High: 1061
Normal: 1606
Low: 2238
Lowest: 2326
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
Active Differential users (any activity) in (2022-01): 1
To see the names of the most active task authors:
* Go to https://wikimedia.biterg.io/
* Choose "Phabricator > Overview" from the top bar
* Adjust the time frame in the upper right corner to your needs
* See the author names in the "Submitters" panel
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on phab1001 at Tue 01 Feb 2022 12:00:19 AM UTC)