[Wikitech-l] Production Excellence #26: November 2020

[Krinkle]

How’d we do in our strive for operational excellence last month? Read on to
find out!

Or read on Phabricator at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/218/

 Incidents

Zero documented incidents in November. [1] That's the only month this year
without any (publicly documented) incidents. In 2019, November was also the
only such month. [3]

Learn about recent incidents at Incident documentation
 on Wikitech,
or Preventive measures
 in Phabricator.

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 Trends

Figure 1, Figure 2: Unresolved error reports stacked by month.


The overall increase in errors was relatively low this past month, similar
to the November-December period last year.

What's new is that we can start to see a positive trend emerging in the
backlogs where we've shrunk issue count three months in a row, from the 233
high in October, down to the 181 we have in the ol' backlog today.

Month-over-month plots based on spreadsheet data
.
[5]

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 Outstanding errors

Take a look at the workboard and look for tasks that could use your help.
→ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-production-error/

Summary over recent months:

   - ⚠️ July 2019 (2 of 18 tasks): One task closed (-1).
   - ⚠️ August 2019 (1 of 14 tasks): *no change*.
   - ⚠️ September 2019 (3 of 12 tasks): *no change*.
   - ⚠️ October 2019 (5 of 12 tasks): *no change*.
   - ⚠️ November 2019 (1 of 5 tasks): *no change*.
   - ⚠️ December 2019 (3 of 9 tasks left), *no change*.
   - January 2020 (3 of 7 tasks left), One task closed (-1).
   - February (2 of 7 tasks left), *no change*.
   - March (2 of 2 tasks left), *no change*.
   - April (9 of 14 tasks left): *no change*.
   - May (7 of 14 tasks left): *no change*.
   - June (7 of 14 tasks left): *no change*.
   - July 2020 (9 of 24 new tasks
   ): *no
   change*.
   - August 2020 (23 of 53 new tasks
   ):
   Three tasks closed (-3).
   - September 2020 (14 of 33 new tasks
   ):
   One task closed (-1).
   - October 2020 (39 of 69 new tasks
   ):
   Six tasks closed (-6).
   - *November 2020*: 19 of 38 new tasks
   
   survived the month and remain open today (+38; -19)

Recent tally
142 as of Excellence #25

(23 Oct 2020).
-12 closed of the 142 recent tasks.
+19 survived November 2020.
149 as of today, 15 Dec 2020.

The on-going month of December, has 19 unresolved tasks
 so far.

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 Thanks!

Thank you to everyone else who helped by reporting, investigating, or
resolving problems in Wikimedia production. Thanks!

Until next time,

– Timo Tijhof

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Footnotes:

[1] Incident documentation 2020, Wikitech
.
[2] Open tasks, Wikimedia-prod-error, Phabricator
.
[3] Wikimedia incident stats, Krinkle, CodePen
.
[4] Month-over-month, Production Excellence (spreadsheet)

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Community Wishlist Survey 2021

[Andre Klapper]

On Fri, 2020-12-11 at 15:36 +0530, Rohitesh Kumar Jain wrote:
> I have joined this community channel a few days ago only, 

Hi and welcome!

> I am curious to know what happens to the selected proposals? 

See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021

> Who works upon them and what happens to the proposals that get few
> votes only? 

I guess anyone is free to work on whatever they are interested in - the
code is public. :)

Thanks,
andre

-- 
Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/


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[Wikitech-l] TechCom meeting 2020-12-16

[Niklas Laxström]

This is the weekly TechCom board review in preparation of our meeting on
Wednesday. If there are additional topics for TechCom to review, please let
us know by replying to this email. However, please keep discussion about
individual RFCs to the Phabricator tickets.

Activity since Tuesday 2020-12-08 on the following boards:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom/
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/techcom-rfc/

Committee inbox: (none)

Committee board activity:

   - T42787  Remove legacy ajax
   interface
  - I moved from Inbox to Watching
   - T267213  Create WikiTeq
   group on Gerrit
   - Kizule is asking for an update.
  - It seems there are two things to do: create the group and update
  the policy.

New RFCs: (none)

Phase progression: (none)

IRC meeting request: (none)

Other RFC activity:

   - T263841  RFC: Expand API
   title generator to support other generated data
   - There is a new proposal text. Please comment.
   - T259771 : RFC: Drop support
   for database upgrade older than two LTS releases.
   - Discussion on the task. To me it looks mostly in favor or commenting
  that some of the problems are not fully solved by this proposal.
   - T268326  RFC: Amendment to
   the Stable interface policy (November 2020)
   - Feedback given about the proposed 3 month minimum period
   - T119173 : RFC: Discourage
   use of MySQL's ENUM type.
   - Amir showed how to automatically generate on-wiki documentation for
  tables.
   - T133452 : RFC: Create
   temporary accounts for anonymous editors.
   - Many comments after Tim proposed to use cloaks (see his comment in the
  task for details)
   - T214362 : RFC: Store
   WikibaseQualityConstraint check data in persistent storage.
   - Krinkle asked for clarifications. Lucas responded with a comment and
  Lydia offered to have it explained in a call.
   - T208776 : RFC: Introduce
   PageIdentity to be used instead of WikiPage.
   - Krinkle and Daniel discuss implementation details in context of what's
  best for type safety, clarity and migration.


  -Niklas
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