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Production Excellence #25: October 2020
Monthly update on our strive for operational excellence.

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

📈 Incidents

2 documented incidents in October. [1] Historically, that's just below the median of 3 for this time of year. [3]

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


📊 Trends

Unresolved error reports stacked by recent month
Total open production error tasks, by month

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


📖 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 (3 of 18 tasks): One task closed.
  • ⚠️ August 2019 (1 of 14 tasks): no change.
  • ⚠️ September 2019 (3 of 12 tasks): no change.
  • ⚠️ October 2019 (5 of 12 tasks): One task closed.
  • ⚠️ November 2019 (1 of 5 tasks): Two tasks closed.
  • December (3 of 9 tasks left), no change.
  • January 2020 (4 of 7 tasks left), no change.
  • February (2 of 7 tasks left), no change.
  • March (2 of 2 tasks left), no change.
  • April (9 of 14 tasks left): One task closed.
  • May (7 of 14 tasks left): no change.
  • June (7 of 14 tasks left): no change.
  • July 2020 (9 of 24 new tasks): One task closed.
  • August 2020 (26 of 53 new tasks): Five tasks closed.
  • September 2020 (15 of 33 new tasks): Two tasks closed.
  • October 2020: 45 of 69 new tasks survived the month of October and remain open today.
Recent tally
110as of Excellence #24 (23rd Oct).
-13closed of the 110 recent tasks.
+45survived October 2020.
142as of today, 23rd Nov.

For the on-going month of November, there are 25 new tasks so far.


🎉 Thanks!

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

Until next time,

– Timo Tijhof


 👤  Howard Salomon:

❝   Problem is when they arrest you, you get put on the justice train, and the train has no brain. ❞  

Footnotes:

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

Written by Krinkle on Nov 24 2020, 5:13 AM.
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