WEEK 8

(July 23, 2025)

Attendees:

• Kaushlendra Pratap
• Shaheem Azmal M MD

Engagements

• This week I started by continuing with the corrections from the reviews and comments I got from the current scripts we have.

• Below are the adjustment I made;

  • Updated the pipeline.yml to accept environmental variables for our DB.
  • Used workflow secrets to handle injection of .env files into the pipeline.
  • Renamed the pipeline flow safaa-model-retraining to showcase its functionalities
  • Removed artifacts upload functionality since we aren't passing the artifacts among workflows

• Also, this week I created a new branch named testing on my own end to test out changes we have made so far.

  • The first testing required manual testing of the pipeline through GitHub actions manual triggering

  • The second testing was automated by adding the on: push: branches: [testing] for testing branch, thereby triggering on github action anytime the branch gets an update

    • Lastly since we are trying to find a better ways to install our dependencies, I introduced the use of shell script in our pipeline instead of a requirements.txt file

Meeting Discussion:

• This week, i discussed with my mentors on what i have done so far regarding the corrections on comments. I was told to made some little improvements like;

  • Direct installation of dependencies in the pipeline script.
  • Removal of requirements.txt or shell scripts installations.
  • Splitting of each processing into different commands using argument flags, thereby enabling us to understand steps in process.
  • I was also tasked to introduce some global variable to some repetitive paths.

• And lastly i was also told to introduce a pickle file into the system using the available data in the current safaa repository.

Subsequent Steps

• I will proceed to making adjust and integrating new task while continuing on the work towards achieving the pipeline goals.