Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-20
2023-03-20[edit]
🏆 Wins/winterrogation[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Mar 2024
- Nightly security patch failures updating phabricator tasks merged, ready to release
- Merged deploys-in-progress reset script
- Two repos have patches for git-fat → git-lfs
- scap: replaced canary swagger checks with test server httpbb checks
- Phorge integration with GitLab in its third round of review
- GitLab webhooks also still going, looks like it'll go through
- People like scap backport - more patches, fewer things typed into terminals.
- Security patch notification now working!
- GitLab webhooks have a more accurate regex for "Bug: TXX"
- Foreachwiki in beta
- Getting rid of the /srv/mediawiki/php symlink
- Upgraded GitLab k8s/cloud cluster to new k8s version and documented the process
- Andre has returned to us \o/
- Phab deploy is out (but stuff is broken (not terribly (probably)))
- scap backport now works for non-extension submodules
- gitlab cloud runner dependencies
- scap backport -2 fix merged, need to release
Stuff from last time[edit]
📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2024
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off (page needs updating for Dayforce)
Mar 2024[edit]
- 29 Feb, 1st Mar, 4th Mar - 8th Mar - Antoine
- 14 Mar–14 May: Dan
- 29 Mar: Brennen, Jeena, Andre
Apr 2024[edit]
- Mon 01 Apr: Andre
- Fri 05 Apr: Brennen
- Fri 05 Apr–Fri 12 Apr -- Tyler, eclipse viewing
- Mon 22 Apr: Global holiday, all staff
- 26 Apr: Brennen (tentative)
- Apr 29 - May 02: Andre less available
May 2024[edit]
- Mon 27 May: Memorial Day (US staff with reqs)
Future[edit]
- A few days around July 4: Brennen
- 25 Aug - 03 Sep: Brennen
🔥🚂 Train[edit]
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
Rotation[edit]
- 3 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.8 – No Train offsite
- 11 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.9 – Brennen + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 18 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.10 – Ahmon + Brennen (Jaime out)
- 25 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.11 – No Train
- 1 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.12 – Dan + Ahmon (Jaime out)
- 8 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.13 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 15 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.14 – Jaime + Jeena
- 22 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.15 – Antoine + Jaime
- 29 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.16 – Ahmon + Antoine(Brennen out Wed–Fri)
- 05 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.17 – Brennen + Ahmon
- 12 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.18 – Brennen+Antoine (Friday)
- 19 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.19 – Jeena+Brennnen
- 26 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.20 – Dan + Jeena
- 04 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.21 – Jaime + Dan (Antoine out)
- 11 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.22 – Antoine + Jaime (Dan out)
People for train: Ahmon, Antoine, Brennen, Jeena, Jaime
- 18 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.23 – Ahmon + Antoine
- 25 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.24 – Jeena + Ahmon
- 1 Apr – 1.42.0-wmf.25 – Jaime + Jeena
- 8 Apri – 1.42.0-wmf.26 – Antoine + Jaime
- 15 Apr – 1.42.0-wmf.27 – Ahmon + Antoine
- 22 Apr – 1.42.0-wmf.28 – Brennen + Ahmon (Global holiday Monday; Brennen out Friday)
Team Discussions[edit]
Annual planning[edit]
WE6.2:
- If we make single version MediaWiki containers for production and remove configuration from the container, we reap the benefit of Kubernetes by getting individual changes to production faster on a per-deploy basis
- If we make our existing deployment UI safer and more user-friendly, we reduce the toil of deployers as measured by the number of users of the deployment tool.
Things we care about:
- We care about moving routing to k8s to ensure fast train rollback
- ramp up one version, ramp down other version
Things mentioned today in IC meeting:
- Wikitech, votewiki, videoscaling
- Issue with beta cluster—how do we have pre-production testing?
- Worries about db corruption
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Let's do some inbox triage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7vRDrcVnt8OI/#R