Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200115

= 2020-01-15 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 1 January (New Year's Day): Staff with reqs, Lars
 * 2 January: Lars
 * 2–3 January: James, Thcipriani
 * 2-10 January: Dan
 * 6 January: probably Lars (public holiday because it's been N days since Xmas)


 * [some dates TBC]: Antoine
 * 19-25 January: Lars working from LA
 * 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs (US staff only?)


 * 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs


 * 9 March (US DST+1 day): Staff with reqs


 * 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
 * 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): 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


 * 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
 * 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
 * 6 Jan - wmf.14 - Jeena + Lars


 * 13 Jan - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen
 * 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
 * 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
 * 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
 * 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
 * 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
 * 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
 * 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars

SoS

 * Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Incoming/Needs attention
- Kosta blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238004#5802271

All-Hands
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2020/Conference_Schedule


 * Monday: "Department day" in the afternoon
 * Tuesday: "Team day" in the afternoon
 * Think about people you want to reach out to face-to-face
 * Thursday has "Open time"
 * Friday is "Unconference"

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - January '20 edition

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

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - T233863
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - T233864
 * January 27-31: 1.35.0-wmf.17 No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands - T233865
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * January 27-31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - T233863
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - T233864
 * Next week: No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands

Callouts

 * Release Engineering - January 27–31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands

Train status and happenings

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

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 (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Personal Phabricator workboard seems useful.
 * Worst thing
 * Dell. Well, computers generally.
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finished first pipelinelib (.pipeline/config.yaml) tutorial.
 * Noemie doing cool things.
 * Worst thing
 * Sickness.
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Not having the data I need to give Grant metrics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242826
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Got rid of all JS CI for parsoid, they're now PHP-only (but still no tests in /deploy yet!).
 * Worst thing
 * Stopped the creation of post-merge MW docker images per SRE. :-(
 * My documentation fail broke Lars's train. Sorry!
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * aches of the head
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Did my GTD review for the first time since Christmas
 * Worst thing
 * So, so much to do. Also, train.
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Bleh
 * Worst thing
 * OKRs
 * What's on your workboard?
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I got a filing cabinet.
 * Worst thing
 * 3 hour meetings :(
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * started training for half-marathon in March 🏃‍♂️
 * Worst thing
 * no contract yet 📜
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/