GitLab Acceleration Initiative meeting on 20 Sept, 2023
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<p>This meeting:<br>
➤ Is for core developers, initiative contributors, the Drupal Association and anyone interested in the initiative.<br>
➤ Usually happens every other Wednesday at 11:00 PT / Thursday 18:00 UTC<br>
➤ Is done over chat.<br>
➤ Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!<br>
➤ Lots of threads get posted all at once! Don't worry - start at the top and then jump into the threads that most interest you.<br>
➤ Has a public agenda anyone can add to in the issue<br>
➤ *Transcript will be exported and posted* to the agenda issue. For anonymous comments, start with a :bust_in_silhouette: emoji. To take a comment or thread off the record, start with a :no_entry_sign: emoji.</p>
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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 :wave::skin-tone-3:</td>
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<td>markdorison</td>
<td>Mark from Chromatic! :meow-wave-peek:</td>
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<td>Björn Brala (bbrala)</td>
<td>Bjorn from SWIS, Netherlands. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:</td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>Andy from Hanau</td>
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<td>kimb0</td>
<td>Kim from Sydney</td>
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<td>tyler36</td>
<td>Hi from Japan</td>
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<td>Nick_vh</td>
<td>Hi Nick from GitLab, Belgium 🙂 Mostly observing and trying to build bridges where needed</td>
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<td>wimleers (he/him)</td>
<td>:wave:</td>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td>:clock11: Okay - getting this started!This meeting:➤ Is for core developers, initiative contributors, the Drupal Association and anyone interested in the initiative.➤ Usually happens every other Wednesday at 11:00 PT / Thursday 18:00 UTC➤ Is done over chat.➤ Happens in threads, which you can follow to be notified of new replies even if you don’t comment in the thread. You may also join the meeting later and participate asynchronously!➤ Lots of threads get posted all at once! Don't worry - start at the top and then jump into the threads that most interest you.➤ Has a public agenda anyone can add to in the issue➤ *Transcript will be exported and posted* to the agenda issue. For anonymous comments, start with a 👤 emoji. To take a comment or thread off the record, start with a 🚫 emoji.</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 CIAlso some DrupalCI_Environments issues (still used by Gitlab CI) in this top level thread (edited) </h2>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>Explored option and shaved few seconds when database docker images has pre-initialized database but as tests are running on the same node and using tmpfs, so runner's helper image an setup some "drupal magic" for caching code/node_modules/database</td>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td>And I owe you some reviews in the drupalci_environment queue I think.</td>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td>I think I have time tomorrow.</td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>yes, I need another pair of eyes on review and splitting PHP image into maintainable sets of php-cli/nodejs/chrome/apache/nightwatch <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-3"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3386474" title="Status: Closed (duplicate)">#3386474: [omnibus] Speed up gitlab ci runs</a></span>#comment-15236589 (edited)</td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>also some prometheus/grafana instance could be very helpful <a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/monitoring/performance/grafana_configuration.html#integrate-with-gitlab-ui">https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/monitoring/performance/grafana_configuration.html#integrate-with-gitlab-ui</a></td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td><a href="https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html#override-the-helper-image">https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html#override-the-helper-image</a> speed-up/secure/predictable</td>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci_environments/issues/3388135" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3388135: Fix base image for Mysql 8.0/5.7</a></span>#comment-15240193Two cherry picks for MySQL 5.7 and 8 to production - images are built - comment has two test runs to validate that it is all working.</td>
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<h2>2️⃣ 1️⃣ CI for Modern CoreTruly incredible progress in the last couple weeks especially. We are looking at the possibility of sub-10-minute core runs.Meta issue:<span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3388162" title="Status: Active">#3388162: Investigate realistic resource requests for core jobs</a></span>(edited)</h2>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>Yay :tada: pats on the back to everyone involved</td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>hey! at core side it makes sense to improve protocol <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3240792" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3240792: Use lullabot/mink-selenium2-driver and lullabot/php-webdriver for functional browser testing</a></span></td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>Also using PHP 8.0+ with JIT and preloading can give another 20-30% speed-up <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3108687" title="Status: Active">#3108687: Compatibility with/take advantage of code preloading in PHP 7.4</a></span></td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>feeling lack of metrics (only manual measures) but looking for review/ideas about further docker image optimizations in layering per test job in context of <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-8"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalci_environments/issues/3387737" title="Status: Needs review">#3387737: Split PHP image into php(cli/apache) and yarn(node/nightwatch)</a></span>#comment-15238693 (edited)</td>
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<td>Juraj Nemec</td>
<td>@hestenet (he/him) maybe we can link the meta issue here as well, where all these issue are linked: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3387107" title="Status: Active">#3387107: [meta] GitLab CI feature parity with DrupalCI</a></span></td>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td>@Juraj Nemec good idea - done.</td>
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<td>Björn Brala (bbrala)</td>
<td>Joined the fun for once lol :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:</td>
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<td>wimleers (he/him)</td>
<td>Thanks for these links, following all of them!</td>
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<h2>2️⃣ 2️⃣ CI for Drupal 7 CoreMR in Needs Review: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3387052" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#3387052: [D7] GitLab CI integration for core</a></span> (edited) </h2>
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<h2>2️⃣ 3️⃣ CI for Modern contrib -- this has already been 'done' for a while - may benefit from some improvements we are finding.</h2>
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<td>larowlan</td>
<td>Yes I wonder what we can improve based on core things</td>
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<td>Björn Brala (bbrala)</td>
<td>I'd wait until we get a little further, but there is loads of things we can port that are quite valuable, as inline codestyle issues, and perhaps the concurrency support.Hopefully it hasnt diverged to much.</td>
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<td>andypost</td>
<td>I hope search api, redis, memcache contrib can benefit from new docker images (edited)</td>
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<td>wimleers (he/him)</td>
<td>Yes I wonder what we can improve based on core things:100:Core has jumped so far ahead now that it feels ancient? :stuck_out_tongue:</td>
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<td>wimleers (he/him)</td>
<td>But +1 to first getting 100% of core done, and then applying lessons learned to contrib.</td>
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<h2>2️⃣ 4️⃣ CI for D7 contrib - A template for CI for D7 contrib has been proposed here: <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1695227405485629 ">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/CGKLP028K/p1695227405485629 </a>(edited) </h2>
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<td>hestenet (he/him)</td>
<td><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link drupalorg-gitlab-link-wrapper"><a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates/-/issues/3343810" class="drupalorg-gitlab-link">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/gitlab_templates/-/issues/3343810</a></span></td>
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<h2>3️⃣ GitLab InfrastructureIncreased usage has exposed performance issues.The concurrency limit in GitLab config was set/raised.One issue is already (mostly) resolved - excessive redirects: <a href="https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C51GNJG91/p1695140980564319Our">https://drupal.slack.com/archives/C51GNJG91/p1695140980564319Our</a> GitLab1 needs a migration from OSU OSL to AWS alongside GitLab-aws - we are working on a staging cluster to validate that geo replication will survive the transition. (edited)</h2>
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<td>Björn Brala (bbrala)</td>
<td>:crossed_fingers:</td>
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<td>markdorison</td>
<td>Gitlab1 and Gitlab2 are different instances used for failover?</td>
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<td>drumm</td>
<td>gitlab2 actually no longer exists. gitlab1 is the geo primary, gitlab-aws is the secondary and serves most http traffic</td>
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<td>drumm</td>
<td>We also need to set all of this up in staging so we know what to expect when promoting a secondary to primary</td>
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<h2>4️⃣ GitLab Issues - we are making some progress on getting ready for the SSO work that enables the credit migration that enables the issue opt-in process.@heddn has been working with us on that, keycloak instance updated, rebasing/rerolling some issues etc.We won't have the sso migration/issue opt in switch before Lille, but I hope we can get to it as the next big push after we get back.With all the CI momentum I'm really feeling the energy to move this next. (edited) </h2>
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<p>Participants:</p>
<p>andypost, hestenet, larowlan, poker10, bbrala, Wim Leers, markdorison, drumm</p>
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