Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020408
2020-04-08[edit]
IT'S OK TO NOT BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
- 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
- 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9â11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
- 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
- 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
- time, details, etc TBD
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (waiting to cancel the reservation until AirBnB extends its covid policy))
Rotating positions[edit]
Train[edit]
- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates
- 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
- 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
- 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
- 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
- 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
- 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
- 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
- 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
- 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
- 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
- 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda
= Status[edit]
SoS[edit]
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko đž đ· \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes[edit]
SoS going async for now. đ»
Outgoing[edit]
- Blocked by:
- Web team: Portals gulp4 migration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247996
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.26 - phab:T247773
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - phab:T247774
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - phab:T247775
Callouts[edit]
- Release Engineering
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249565 wb_items_per_site table drop follow-up
- Beta Cluster DB update broken by UBN-follow-ups to change DB Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249732
- Discussion about Re-define mysql GRANTs for wikiadmin (RelEng concerns?) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249683
Book club[edit]
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- ...
Q4 Planning[edit]
Standup![edit]
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards[edit]
- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority
TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
Antoine[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Found the root cause for the CI jobs 25-45% slow down in October: seccomp. A security system to filter allowed syscalls, ends up it has a VERY noticeable overhead. Fix: docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined # T236675
- contint2001 being reimaged to Buster. Will fight puppet/scap to have Zuul deployed via scap3.
- Worst thing
- Haven't started on Betterworks OKRs goals thing. Will look at Mukunda ones which looks nicely formatted.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Pairing sessions.
- Worst thing
- RIP John Prine
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
James[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Jeena[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- I made a magic tea bot for discord. It tells you which tea to drink :D
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Lars[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Phabricator real-time updates nearly fixed after ~6 months. đ <3
- Worst thing
- Real time updates still not quite fixed? (T238593)
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Played bar trivia over twitch last night
- Worst thing
- Feeling that everything in on pause :(
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Frontend web performance training
- Worst thing
- Easter without wider family