Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200122

= 2020-01-22 =

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)


 * 24 January: MModell (worked through the holiday on Monday, taking it on Friday)
 * [some dates TBC]: Antoine
 * 19–25 January: Lars working from LA
 * 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs (US staff only?)
 * 27–31 January: All Hands


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


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


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


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
 * 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

 * Login to at least en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org and commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org sometimes fails with `There seems to be a problem with your login sesion` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243123
 * API testing in core decisions (James mostly dealingx) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236680
 * ACTION: Tyler to e-mail CPT, CCing James, JR, Željko

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!


 * branch.py is in regular use (did we add this already?)

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - T233864
 * Next week: No deploys at all (including train), Wikimedia Foundation All Hands - T233865

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

 * No SoS because of 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
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * branch.py seems to work.
 * Worst thing
 * Our cat is sick.

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
 * Daughter started crawling!
 * Worst thing
 * Childproofing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * TRIGGER WARNING: IRC/Slack/Matrix
 * Introduced OIT/Brendan to Michael Hoye of Mozilla re chat evaluation
 * He just introduced them to the lead person at Matrix
 * nice. :) thcipriani +1
 * Worst thing
 * metrics finding for the tuning session

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Caught up on e-mail and actually responded to people.
 * Worst thing
 * Got ill, briefly.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I think my tree fern spores are germinating!
 * Worst thing
 * kfjsghjkfg ugh

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Los Angeles weather and sunshine
 * Worst thing
 * Airplanes
 * Airports
 * Flights
 * Travel
 * Jet lag

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
 * up to date, in case I can't make it to the weekly meeting

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Seemingly out of the woods with Phabricator stuff
 * Worst thing
 * Lost a lot of time rotating credentials and writing a 2fa invalidator. Also worked through a holiday on Monday to get everything ready to deploy with tonight's Phabricator upgrade.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * no cone dog
 * Worst thing
 * structural violence

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Signed my contract 📜
 * Worst thing
 * Closing my company 👔

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/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn