Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200923

= 2020-09-23 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
 * 15 Sep: Thcipriani out
 * 18 Sep: Brennen out, Dancy out for a few hours around noon Pacific


 * 21-25: Antoine barely there in his evenings


 * 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
 * Offsite?
 * https://wudele.toolforge.org/1yMqruitkbYO62xV


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


 * 6 Dec (Finnish independence day): Lars away
 * 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

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


 * 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 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen


 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Mukunda
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
 * 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
 * 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
 * 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
 * 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263182
 * 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Antoine + Mukunda https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184
 * 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.XX
 * 7 Dec - wmf.XX
 * 14 Dec - wmf.XX
 * 21 Dec - ???
 * 28 Dec - No Train


 * Will the above schedule be affected by offsite week? bah. yes :)

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: 1.36.0-wmf.9 - T257977
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.10 - T257978
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - T263177
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.10 - T257978
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - T263177

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
 * GitLab Consultation! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation Closes on September 30th.

Incoming/Needs attention

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation
 * CTO <> Release Engineering Team 2020-09-23 (Today)

Individual tuning sessions

 * Target week of 2020-10-12
 * Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Q2 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '20 edition

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


 * Scap 3.15.0 was deployed to all servers
 * We have trained another person to conduct the train
 * New phabricator metrics / stats in the project reports (currently deployed to cloud, prod coming soon)
 * image promotion in CI
 * Blog post about this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/208/ci_now_updates_your_deployment-charts/
 * Tiny incremental improvements to logspam-watch (it now shows seconds)
 * GitLab consultation well underway
 * Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html

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
train-dev: * deploy-promote almost runs completely to the end w/o error. * Bringing a MW server online.
 * Best thing
 * First week of train conductor duty
 * Our condolences
 * Worst thing
 * l10n files obesity

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html
 * Some train-dev things, will eventually look at making it faster to provision.


 * Worst thing
 * Yak shaved the aftermath with Parsoid, mediawiki-phan-config unreleased patch, phan tripping on php-ast and fun. Greatly supported by Daimona \O/

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * No shortage of GitLab opinions
 * Worst thing
 * Etherpad

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
 * Went up the California coast for the weekend. 'twas niiiice.
 * Worst thing
 * Not getting an Internet connection at the new place until next Wednesday. :/
 * Also short on childcare this next (possibly two) week(s) due to our nanny having a family emergency, so I might be working fewer hours.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Train-dev progress.
 * Super secret side project that I'm not telling anyone about.
 * Automated testing of most kinds.
 * Forest walks in sunny not-cold autumn weather.
 * Bright light lamp on my desk.
 * Worst thing
 * Trying to stay upbeat and positive, but it's difficult.
 * The Darkness is almost upon me.
 * Having trouble not adding things to bulleted lists.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Got phabricator metrics report code deployed to teh cloud test instance:
 * Example: https://phab.wmflabs.org/project/reports/5/
 * Worst thing
 * No complaints

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * GitLab consultation
 * Worst thing
 * GitLab consultation

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * A sports doctor (if that's a thing) said I'm healthy enough to run a marathon. 👩‍⚕️
 * Worst thing
 * The marathon I've trained for has been cancelled. I'll have to run it alone. 🏃‍♂️

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