Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200708

= 2020-07-08 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
 * 6-10 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time
 * 6-8 July: Ahmon out
 * July 11th - 26th: Antoine out
 * July 13th,22-24: Tyler out


 * 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs


 * 7 Sep (Labor 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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * Group2 on Wednesday US


 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine + Ahmon?

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - T254176
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - T256668
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - T256669
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - T256668
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - T256669

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)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Incoming/Needs attention

 * CI pipeline/job to build and release helm chart artifacts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257333
 * Mukunda: any updates on Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255761 (an intern and a volunteer are blocked on it) - working on it 👍

Individual Tuning Sessions
Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition

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


 * CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
 * Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
 * Cassandra Docker image

Q1 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
 * Due July 10th
 * Thcipriani to add top-level

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

 * Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=DS.IkJV3YwZL

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Vacations
 * Published git v2 announcement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/199/
 * Worst thing
 * Docker and unpinned dependencies ...

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (quasi-vacationing)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * It's nice to do manual labor instead of staring at computer screens
 * Worst thing
 * My back hurts now

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 & 40 // Ψ state hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (holiday Fri)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I now have a cool and useful phabricator dashboard thanks to Mukunda
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * New home
 * Got my laptop sticker finally
 * Worst thing
 * Moving house

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Easiest train ever so far (thanks James!)
 * Worst thing
 * Waking up ~0 minutes before this meeting.
 * Honerable mention: cloud-init

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * reviewing last quarter's accomplishments, it was a lot
 * now tremendously in debt :)
 * Worst thing
 * filling in slides decks for management fun

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: L-X hours/week
 * that's just "XL" :P

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Started preparing for marathon in September 🏃‍♂️
 * Worst thing
 * Dropped phone in water 🌊

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