Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200909

= 2020-09-09 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs


 * 11 Sep: Brennen maybe out


 * 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
 * Offsite?


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs

Rotating positions

 * 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


 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train


 * 7 Visual - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

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

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * 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.7 - T257976
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.8 - T257977
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - T257976
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.8 - T257977

Callouts

 * 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
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * 3.15.0 has the sync-world subcommand
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Incoming/Needs attention

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes 2020-09-14

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '20 edition

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

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/4845/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Best thing
 * 3 day weekend
 * Worst thing
 * Fire

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing


 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Camping.
 * Worst thing
 * Fire.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Getting keys to our new place on Friday!
 * Worst thing
 * We live in Hell now. (Much cooler than I expected; 61F. Not as cool as I thought it'd be; Where's the party?)

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Buying a new desk, finally!
 * Worst thing
 * I also need a chair...ouch my wallet

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * home-office re-do (see link in Telegram)
 * many new teas
 * Worst thing
 * computers
 * the Internet
 * people
 * the universe
 * the multiverse
 * having too much caffeine
 * Debian package building tooling
 * Finnish web shops
 * having too much negativity

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Ready to deploy the legalpad conduit api for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253265
 * Worst thing
 * I thought I found a bad data leak vulnerability in legalpad but it was a false alarm.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * fall is coming
 * Worst thing
 * Wildfire smoke
 * Ubiquiti products recently
 * Heartily seconded.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * long vacation 🏝
 * Average running distance/time per week (for the last 4 weeks): 56 km (35 miles) / 6h
 * GSoC is over! 😅
 * new titles at https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ 👔
 * Worst thing
 * catching up after vacation 😬

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn