Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-06-22
2022-06-22[edit]
Inspiration Week 2022[edit]
- 3 weeks away!
- July 11th: <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Engineering/Inspiration_Week_2022>
- tl;dr: work on something; not work
ERC Update[edit]
- Draft two in progress
Team API[edit]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KoWCLyhHbekAf8OTmtDnCvNzssCnzEv479et9ljhhvs/edit#
π Wins[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- June '22 edition
- GitLab Sprint summary by Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/288/gitlab-a-thon/
- We have GitLab on new metal, and can probably enable GL Container Registry \o/
- We know more about git than we did in May
- Functional scap already self-installed in prod
- JWT presentation!
- Phab deployment has a runbook https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phabricator/Deployment
- scap scap
- successfully used it
- ITCs getting done
- somebody noticed phab
πΆ Let's these this empty[edit]
π Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
June[edit]
- ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (π₯βΊ) (probably ((maybe)))
- 9 Jun: Antoine
- 15-17 Jun: Dan (πβ°)
- 20 Jun: Juneteenth (observed) (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
- 27 Jun: Tyler
2229 Jun: Brennen out afternoon- 20-30 Jun: Jaime
July[edit]
- 1 Jul: Jaime; Dan (π); Tyler (afternoon)
- 4 Jul: US Independence day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
- ~Jul 7: Brennen out
- 25-29 Jul: Dancy out
August[edit]
- Antoine: some weeks
- 9 Aug: International Day of the Worldβs Indigenous Peoples
- 12 Aug: Brennen (πΈ)
- 27-31 Aug: Brennen (π₯)
September[edit]
- 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
- 1-6 Sept: Brennen (π₯)
- ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (βΊπͺ)
π₯π Train[edit]
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 2 May β wmf.10 β Antoine + Brennen
- 9 May - wmf.11 β Skipping for GitLab-a-thon
- 16 May - wmf.12 - Jaime + Antoine
- 23 May - wmf.13 - Ahmon + Jaime (Antoine out)
- 30 May - wmf.14 - Jeena + Ahmon
- 6 Jun - wmf.15 - Dan + Jeena (Brennen out)
- 13 Jun - wmf.16 - Brennen + Jeena (Dan out)
- 20 Jun - wmf.17 - Antoine + Brennen (Jaime out)
- 27 Jun - wmf.18 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 4 Jul - wmf.19 - Jaime + Dan
- 11 Jul - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Jaime
- 18 Jul - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
- 25 Jul - wmf.22 - Brennen + Jeena
- 1 Aug - wmf.23 - Antoine + Brennen
- 8 Aug - wmf.24 - No train (Brennen out)
- 15 Aug - wmf.25
π π€₯ Two Truths and a Lie[edit]
Rules[edit]
- Put in three declarative statements about yourself
- Two of them should be true
- One of them should be a lie
Your turn[edit]
- When it's your turn, read all three statments (earnestly)
- We'll vote for the one we think is a lie with +1
- Once voting is complete, you'll reveal the lie
- Ahmon
- I have met Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), the author of the famous Phrack article: Smashing the stack for fun and profit +1 +1
- My mother is Chinese +1+1
- I was fined for phone phreaking as a teenager +1 +1
- Antoine
- Learned skateboarding at 40 years old
- Was prevented by coworkers from burning tires for work purposes +1+1+1
- I am playing electrical bass +1 +1 +1
- Chad
- During the 2010 eruptions of EyjafjallajΓΆkull, the WMF staff was stranded in Berlin. We tried to get home via:
- Asking Mark Shuttleworth to fly us out on his private jet +1+1
- Taking the Orient Express to Istanbul to fly home the long way
- Taking a ship home from the UK+1 +1 +1 +1
- Brennen
- I play several stringed instruments, but am best at mandolin.+1+1have
- I have had a false tooth since the age of 7. +1 +1
- I have 17 first cousins.+1 +1 (18?)
- Dan
- I was once described as "half man, half sweater"
- I have fallen into a pit of cow dung +1 +1
- I am North American Dance Dance Revolution champion of 2002 +1+1+1 +1
- Temi
- I've met my favorite musician (Wizkid) in real life
- I'm scared of animals and most things not human upclose +1+1 +1+1+1 +1
- I only got 2hours of sleep today
- Tyler
- I'm running a half-marathon on the 4th of July +1 +1+1
- I have an embroidered patch presented to me by the Wikimedia design team which depicts Peter I's beard tax coin +1
- I own an Apple II +1+1