Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201201

= 2020-12-01 =

Lars: to run meeting 2020-12-09

Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * How to do it


 * 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
 * 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out

Train

 * 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


 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
 * 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185


 * 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
 * 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
 * 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
 * NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7

Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0

Status

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
 * 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
 * 2020-11-25: Brennen
 * 2020-12-02: Ahmon

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * WMCS: train-dev blocked waiting for nested VM support (T267433)
 * ServiceOps: deploy scap 3.16.0-1 T268634
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: No Train
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 T263186 No Train
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 T263187
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ITC Manager feedback -- you should all have it!
 * Fun day: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Tech_Department_Fun_Day_2020

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
 * Next one 2020-12-07: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749 (OAuth 2.0)

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '20 edition

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Add as you have them!


 * Gerrit security upgrade
 * Gerrit grafana dashboard
 * Created pipelinelib-experimental cloud project for working on pipelinelib
 * Scap 3.16.0 release (tagged, waiting on SRE now)
 * logspam-watch improvements
 * apparently scap apply-patches may possibly work in some circumstances

Standup!

 * Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

 * 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/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * train-dev blocked waiting for WMCS nested VM support
 * Blocking:
 * Nothing as far as I know
 * Updates:
 * Studying mediawiki helm charts and docker images.
 * TODO: experiment with l10n cache settings in MW container
 * Best thing
 * Food
 * Worst thing
 * N/A

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * A long tail of patches I have to act on
 * gerrit.devtools authentication
 * Doesn't paladox have a patch for DEVELOPER_MODE or whatever...?
 * Blocking:
 * Quibble release that will add support for an external web. Will use supervisord inside Quibble containers to spawn Apache.
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Applying train security patches is now a breeze
 * Worst thing
 * I have left behind too many patches / uncompleted work bah

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * fr-tech - dev images patch review
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Feasting
 * Worst thing
 * Feast participation limited to a single other person
 * Feast participation limited to a single other person

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena
* Learning about jjb. Working on creating folders using jjb for credentials restriction * Conversation with Brooke about making k8s cluster in horizon
 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Updates:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268634 (Deploy Scap version 3.16.0-1)
 * as soon as the current release is out, I'm going to re-format all Scap code with Black, but I don't want to do that until then to avoid unnecessary merge conflicts
 * also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248490 waits on new release
 * Blocking:
 * nada?
 * Updates:
 * Working on testing Scap under train-dev, getting close.
 * Best thing
 * Wife's movie chosen for third film festival
 * Worst thing
 * Almost all software
 * The Darkness

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Contint-root access - yay
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Thanksgiving
 * Worst thing
 * Xmas
 * Worst thing
 * Xmas

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority