test please delete

[sadkingbilly]

I only just saw this - thanks for reminding me!

nae borra

[NickFitz]

Tech Debt day has been fairly quiet. It usually starts with a team-wide huddle on Slack for an hour or so to chat about any stuff of interest, but a lot of people had gone to London for the planning meeting yesterday and were travelling home, so that didn’t happen. However, I had several automated security PRs for dependency updates in our project’s codebase to deal with. These are usually quite straightforward: check tests have all passed, merge, maybe go and poke at staging to check it’s all still working, release. However, our codebase has a couple of Heisenbugs that only manifest in CI, and today they manifested a lot

Another problem is that running all the tests on CI takes a while. The Heisenbugs tend to manifest about fifteen minutes into the process, so there’s a lot of waiting around and restarting the tests if there’s a failure. Usually it passes the next time, but today they kept on failing repeatedly

And as there were several PRs, more time was consumed by the fact that once one was merged, the next one in the queue had to be updated from the main branch, and had to run its tests again!

So I ended up leaving the final PR running its tests when I set out for Not-as-Big Sainsbury’s to do the shopping at lunchtime. This was accomplished, and the PR had passed by the time I got back, so I was then able to finally get all the updates released to production

Only after that did I have time for lunch: pâté on toast

Immediately after, we had a meeting with the UX designer to consider some visual changes the users had asked for. Luckily, he wasn’t too bothered by any of them, largely because he knows it’s an internal tool and is expected to be decommissioned next year anyway

I’d already made most of the changes so although it’s not really Tech Debt, I just did the last two and pushed them up, and will shove them on hotfix for the end users to marvel at. And that will leave me with about an hour to fill with some straightforward and unimportant task

[xoggoth]

Usual old farty day, Mahjong this morning, local cabaret this afternon with ll1 followed by call in at ll3 place. Did me usual loony dancing at the cabaret and a lady who organised it came over and asked for my phone number, not sure what I've got meself into there.