Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-09-29

= 2021-09-29 =

✨Values✨

 * Developer focused
 * Freedom and open source
 * Integrity
 * Teamwork and collaboration
 * Quality

Standups

 * Work in progress
 * let's not duplicate them in this meeting unless there are blockers

Blockers

 * Limit GitLab shared runners to trusted contributors
 * Resulted as a fallout from completing a task in the sprint
 * Let's put it in the current sprint
 * For retro: should have been part of the definition of done for the original task

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * September '21 edition


 * Upgraded GitLab to 14.x release
 * Migrated dev-images repo to GitLab
 * GitLab usernames fixed
 * Productive collaboration with an upstream https://github.com/rclement/datasette-dashboards/issues/9
 * Successfully set up gitlab ci on ddd: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/ddd/-/pipelines/665

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/wikimedia/+/dashboard/teams:releng#:~:text=Keep%20this%20empty

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

September

 * Somewhere vaguely around US Labor Day weekend: Brennen camping
 * 3 Sept: Day out in the morning.
 * 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Services - Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Traffic - Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
 * 14 Sept: DC Switchover: MediaWiki - Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
 * 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻
 * 15 Sept (afternoon): Tyler
 * 17 Sept: Tyler

October

 * Monday, 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day (US Staff with reqs)

November
(Antoine a week at early in november)
 * 2 Nov: Election day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 11 Nov: Veterans day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 12 Nov: Tyler
 * 25-26 Nov: Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)

December

 * 24-31 December: End of Year Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
 * Might be all staff

📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🌠 The More You RelEng

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know



🔥🚂 Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/


 * 27 Sep - wmf.2 - Jeena + Dan
 * 4 Oct - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 11 Oct - wmf.4 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 8 Nov - wmf.8 -
 * 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
 * 22 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
 * 27 Dec - wmf.17 - NO TRAIN
 * 3 Jan - wmf.18 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 10 Jan - wmf.19 - Jeena + Dan

📤 Train update email

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
 * https://wheelofnames.com/#


 * 2021-05-17: Jeena
 * 2021-05-24: Brennen
 * 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
 * 2021-07-14: Dan <3
 * 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
 * 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :( </3
 * ✅ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NRXMF6GLQPFCBCC53D74K4YQONBBCYS3/
 * 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3
 * 2021-08-27/30: Mukunda <3
 * 2021-09- 17/20: Ahmon <3
 * 2021-09-24/27: Brennen <3
 * 2021-10-01/04: tyler :(

ERC

 * Miro board for the ERC top 3 voting: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lwRBUmE=/
 * Recommendations full text: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Working_groups/Management_Expectations_and_Culture_Working_Group/Effective_and_responsible_communication/Discovery/Top_Actionable_Recommendations
 * Strongly
 * D: Develop clear pathways for CoC violations reporting
 * T: Same ^
 * J: Same ^
 * T: Same ^
 * Re-vote:
 * 8 votes: #20 Code Review
 * 6 votes: #12 Cross team work
 * 5 votes: #2 Process for CoC violations
 * 4 votes: #19 Phabricator working group

👀 VISION

 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12vatXvPTw6-Y3NS7E6gotIGiGGIbZBsKQ-et2K0OK7c/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287