Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-13

= 2020-01-13 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
 * 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
 * 20 Jan: Dan Out


 * 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs


 * 29 Mar: US staff with reqs


 * 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
 * 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs

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 Antoine
 * NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7


 * 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
 * 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
 * 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)

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
 * 2020-12-09: Tyler
 * 2020-12-16: Antoine
 * 2021-01-06: Tyler
 * 2021-01-13: Text only update
 * 2021-01-20: Mukunda

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 T267418
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.27 T267419
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.27 T267419

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
 * 2020-01-11 -- 2020-01-15


 * Q3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#
 * ^ Please post these to betterworks/work on wording

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
 * Feb 1st: Zeljko -- Cal Newport's Deep Work

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Jan '21 edition

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


 * Update dev images to split apache and php containers for local dev

Ahmon

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None, AFIAK
 * Updates:
 * Hacking on containerized multiversion MW. Met with ServiceOps today.  Looks like we're all on the same page. Joe pointed me to some images that I can use.

Antoine

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * MediaWiki jobs from Stretch to Buster https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252434 (have to write announcement)
 * doc1001.eqiad.wmnet upgrade to Buster ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247653 ) E_OUT_OF_TIME
 * Updates:
 * Gerrit out of memory issue being addressed
 * Progress on Jenkins upgrade to Java 11
 * Progress on Jenkins upgrade to Java 11

Common Logging Schema, stuff related to logstash. Presentation by Cole White (today 01/13 - 21:00 UTC I think) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HYHCPvuz93nAYXQSEReUN07HQTQUF_nvltag5H_YZq4/edit#heading=h.vpanev2oq14b https://meet.google.com/ukm-buat-ukg

Brennen

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * A nebulous sense that I am probably blocking somebody
 * Updates:
 * Merged and published: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/640567
 * dev-images: Move xdebug build & php entrypoint to stretch; xdebug 3.0.1
 * Merging soon: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/630988
 * mw/core: [docker] split php-fpm and apache containers
 * Next thing: code review on mw cli stuff, then back to GitLab k8s

Dan

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE: Docker on releases-jenkins
 * Blocking:
 * Nada?
 * Updates:
 * Been messing with releases-jenkins to get pipelinelib working there
 * Primary tasks for Q3 MW-on-K8s goals now in phab
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271448
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271274
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271472

Jeena

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/650266 ??
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/649445
 * Updates:
 * Train
 * Working on and reviewing a lot of local-dev changes
 * So many meetings
 * So many meetings

Lars

 * Blocked by:
 * Brain.
 * Snow.
 * Blocking:
 * Myself?
 * Updates:
 * Train this week.

Mukunda

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Discussed some minor updates for the phabricator project reporting with Naïké.
 * The changes are minor and I've already got the code changes almost finished.
 * Very busy week with 10+ meetings yay
 * I probably need to take a look at phatality
 * Very busy week with 10+ meetings yay
 * I probably need to take a look at phatality

Tyler

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * Everything all the time
 * Updates:
 * GitLab consultat update
 * New req#s for misc services
 * Deployment training: back to thinking about that next week
 * Many slides to write in the interim