Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201118

= 2020-11-18 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone


 * 23-25 Nov: Mukunda - make it a week?
 * 25 Nov: Greg - extra day to get ready for turkey day
 * 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs, and also Lars


 * 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
 * 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
 * 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 - ??? - 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 - ???
 * 28 Dec - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
 * NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7

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

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * gerrit missing tree
 * 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.18 T263184
 * Next week: No Train
 * 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

 * Open Enrollment Reminder: If you need to make changes or enroll in a pre-tax account, open enrollment will take place from Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 20.

organization. For the upcoming KubeCon NA 2020 event (2020-11-17 through 2020-11-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member
 * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/


 * ITC Manager feedback

Book club/Lunch and Learn
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition

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


 * Deployed: Phabricator project metrics reporting features
 * Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/reports/4104/
 * Did GitLab consult finish this month?

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '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/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week
Thinking about automated deployments and error monitoring. This week: train duty modifying logspam to report errors within the last N minutes.
 * Best thing
 * days off
 * some rain
 * Worst thing
 * N/A

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Gerrit Grafana dashboards https://gra fana.wikimedia.org/dashboards/f/5AnaHr2Mk/gerrit
 * We now collect Gerrit internal metrics using Prometheus
 * I have learned about Prometheus metrics


 * Worst thing
 * Files on commons were not showing on Thursday. Hotfixed thanks to Timo / SRE.
 * 

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * How little of last week there was.
 * Worst thing
 * Masonry, homeownership.

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

 * Best thing
 * Experimented with MW image builds using buildkit and got something funky working. Needs feedback/analysis.
 * We have a new Horizon project called pipelinelib-experimental.
 * Worst thing
 * Cutthroat nannyshare shinshenanigansanigans (<- sure). (No child care ATM.)

What's on your workboard

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

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

 * Best thing
 * Got my new glasses: you're all tiny again
 * Time off was lovely, got much sleeping done
 * Ahmon made train-dev faster (less l10n), and I'm making progress on my final OKR, finally
 * Worst thing
 * Lost my glasses: you all had to become huge
 * Formerly super-secret hobby project wasn't finished in a five-day weekend
 * Daylight has been stolen

Well, darkness makes you think of that Which wouldn't otherwise be remembered at all Now I remember how much I wanted to do       And how little of it I achieved

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Worst thing
 * Nothing really
 * Best thing
 * I was on vacation.
 * Did some work on my side project and bought a tractor.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * My office is so fresh and so clean (clean).
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko
(excused)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

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