Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-01

= 2023-03-01 =


 * Last time

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Feb '22 edition


 * Buildkit upstream patch to make client connections more robust in case of loss
 * Smooth wmf.22 train
 * docker-pkg build --list \o/
 * Isolating build containers in buildkit in privilege mode
 * Mr. Widget should be deployable, I think (as soon as secrets are actually stashed)
 * Pushed up patches for JWT (hopefully the final ones :D)
 * Deployed production releases-jenkins using scap3!
 * Patched scap to be smarter about interrupted helm deploys!
 * See Slack://WikiLove thread re: scap backport
 * "90% reduction in time spent in existential dread" ← going on a slide deck somewhere!
 * fixed scap backport for dependencies


 * Mar '22 edition


 * New scap self-install in production
 * Learned too much about iptables

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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


 * Some moby/buildkit stuff:

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * +1'd gerrit changes
 * Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

March 2023

 * 13-15 Mon-Wed: Dan (building cabinets)
 * 16–21 Thu–Tue: Tyler (guessing, running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
 * 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
 * 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering

🔥🚂 Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


 * 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
 * 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
 * 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
 * 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
 * 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
 * 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan


 * 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
 * 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
 * 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
 * 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
 * 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad + Ahmon

Team discussions

 * k8s-sig meeting yesterday
 * persistent storage needs
 * harbor openness :)
 * training across the org for k8s
 * docker-shim deprecation