GitLab Acceleration Initiative meeting on 12 July, 2023
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<h2>0️⃣ Who is here today? Comment in the thread below to introduce yourself!</h2>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td>Tim from the DA</td>
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<td>smustgrave</td>
<td>Hello.</td>
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<td>smustgrave</td>
<td>Hoping to get more involved and help out where I can with gitlab. There an error that needs help just let me know!</td>
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<td>tyler36</td>
<td>Hi everyone!</td>
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<h2>1️⃣ Do you have any topics to propose for the meeting today? Feel free to propose them in this thread, and then I will give them their own unique threads for discussion. Conversation moving slow? Go ahead and open your own thread in the next numeric order.</h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ GitLab CI</h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ 1️⃣ Performance improvementsDone: Using apache from our image: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates/-/issues/3372464" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates/-/issues/3372464</a></span> (edited) </h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ 2️⃣ ConcurrencyAn optional variable is now available to allow running tests with concurrency for even more speed:<a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1689066316386919[#3370952] ">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1689066316386919[#3370952] </a>(edited) </h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ 3️⃣ Performance testing for coreThere is an effort underway to get OpenTelemetry to measure Drupal core performance: [#3352459]per @catchGitLabCI is enabled for core - so this could be setup as a separate scheduled pipeline. It does not need to wait for the rest of core testing to migrate. (edited) </h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ 4️⃣ More support for Drupal core testing on GitlabCICc @larowlan - do you have a list of blockers that could use DA support to move forward? (edited) </h2>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>Note that I investigated a bit the possibility of using the package that we are using in contrib for further paralllel testing to see if it’d make a difference in core, but the results were far from great, so I stopped: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/issues/3374070" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3374070: Experiment with concurrency package</a></span>#comment-15152472--As of now, and after last week’s little push, the main branch for this project is 10.1.x and can be found here: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/tree/10.1.xAn">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/tree/10.1.xAn</a> example pipeline for core can be seen here: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/13815">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/13815</a> (~95 minutes running time). Note that drupalci running time is aprox. 42 mins, so that’s half of what’s taking gitlabci.There are errors on PHPUnit Functional and PHPUnit Funcional Javascript, as seen here: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/13815/test_reportit’d">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/13815/test_reportit’d</a> be great to have a list of places where we could try to help.</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>From a GitlabCI files point of view, the work is great and really well structured.the main file is here <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/blob/10.1.x/.gitlab-ci.ymlThat">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/blob/10.1.x/.gitlab-ci.ymlThat</a> file defines a series of jobs that will trigger a full pipeline each, as define here: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/blob/10.1.x/.gitlab-ci/pipeline.ymlIt">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/blob/10.1.x/.gitlab-ci/pipeline.ymlIt</a> could be slightly refactored to use matrix/parallel syntax and maybe refer to versions via variables instead of hardcoding, but those are minor changes.I think the most important part can come from bringing the running time down first, and then everything else, but for that, it’d be great to know which places could have the biggest impact.</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>@larowlan - just checking that you saw the above two messages, in case we need to shift our focus to something more specific. thanks!!</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>sorry, no I didn't see this</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>focus should be getting it green and bringing the time down yeah</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>did you do any work/investigation on any of those two things?</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>my idea was to try to see how much each of the individual jobs take in drupalci vs gitlabci, to see if it’s a generic “it’s twice as slow everywhere” or if it’s just one or two jobs being slower.</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>if you have any thoughts just throw them here, otherwise we’ll try to look at those two things when possible(note that I’ll be off during two weeks starting tomorrow).</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>I've not looked at this in a long time sorry</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>happy to try and help debug the fails</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>but not much I can do on the timing side of things with my limited access under the hood</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>Its Thursday evening here, I'll try to find an hour tomorrow to look at the fails and see if anything stands out</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>no worries at all, you’ve done an amazing job putting that test bed together and I’m really grateful for it!!</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>yeah, checking on the fails might be the quickest thing to improve or at least to understand why. if you find anything let me know.</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>I’ll try to focus on the timing side of things. there are a few things that we can try on our end (DA) related to the configuration of the gitlab runners, so we’ll poke around and see if we get somewhere.</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>thanks!</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>Issue to investigate performance: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/issues/3375827" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3375827: Investigate tests failures</a></span></td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>@fjgarlin @mstrelan looked into the fails a bit today, the first two he looked at look to be an issue with the subdirectoryGET request to: <a href="http://localhost/subdirectory/subdirectory/entity_test_mul/manage/1/layout note">http://localhost/subdirectory/subdirectory/entity_test_mul/manage/1/layout note</a> the double subdirectory there (edited)</td>
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<td>mstrelan</td>
<td>Tried to push a change to htaccess but that makes unit tests fail. I think we need to patch the file that is scaffolded by composer. Couldn't see how drupalci is doing it.</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>same, took a look at drupal ci too, no references to .htaccess anywhere that I can see</td>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>installing <a href="https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/deb/gitlab-runner_amd64.deb">https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/deb/gitlab-runner_amd64.deb</a> for local debugging</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>Thanks for looking into it. It’s good to at least know the reason why some of the tests are failing</td>
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<td>GitlabCI for coreUpdate here: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/issues/3375827" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3375827: Investigate tests failures</a></span>#comment-15216800TL;DR => There is only one failing test for which we don’t have a fix yet, but everything else is running: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/17900Once">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_ci_testbed_for_drupal_core/-/pipelines/17900Once</a> we identify and fix the issue with the above test we’d be much closer to having core fully integrated with GitlabCI!</td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td><a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1693835840955559">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1693835840955559</a></td>
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<td>fjgarlin</td>
<td>thanks @catch for the last push on committing issues that were RTBC that were blocking this. and also helping with the last issue I mentioned before, which is now in Needs review.</td>
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<h2>3️⃣ GitLab Issues</h2>
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<h2>3️⃣ 1️⃣ Issue summary update for roadmap to enabling issue migrationThis is still a todo for me, I've been pulled into some other major things. Will work on soon.</h2>
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<h2>3️⃣ 2️⃣ Migration code for issues - in good shape on dev</h2>
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<h2>3️⃣ 3️⃣ Migration code for credit/credit content type in D9 - in good shape on dev.</h2>
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<h2>3️⃣ 4️⃣ Dependencies:A full D9/d10 migration of d.o is not required for the issue migration, however portions were built in D9, and we're using SSO and a CDN strategy to migrate only individual pieces and not be blocked on the whole thing.This is also necessary for the project browser project, so it aligns from a prioritiy point of view.</h2>
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<h2>4️⃣ CommunicationI still need to publish a broader announcement about GitLab CI I think..</h2>
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<p>Participants:</p>
<p>fjgarlin, larowlan, mstrelan</p>
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