Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200513

= 2020-05-13 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 11 May - Mukunda vacation (use it or lose it)


 * 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs, also Lars (swapped with 21st)

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


 * 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine


 * 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 18 May - wmf.33 - NO TRAIN (virtual offsite)
 * 25 May - wmf.34 - Mukunda + James
 * 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
 * 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
 * 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

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:
 * [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — T250515
 * [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – T249838, blocking T246358
 * [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – T249839, blocking T246358
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - T249964
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.33 - No train (EngProd virtual off-site)
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - T253022
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - T253022

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

Book club

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '20 edition

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


 * The release train branch cut is now an automatic job
 * Wikimedia Portals build and WDQS data release jobs moved to docker
 * The Continuous Integration instances on WMCS have been fully migrated off Jessie! T236576
 * Scap 1.14.0 released (by releng) and deployed (by serviceops)
 * Setting up a local dev environment for Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Local_Dev_Environment

Virtual Offsite

 * May 17-22
 * Topics and activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fF191Fy80sZvFcOX3fVnqAVNnGZS0R9If1mE3HF5Plk/edit

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

Antoine

 * 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/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
 * Modulo occasional sessions to stare into space in the yard.

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Collaboration with an attentive and responsive volunteer getting the train fixed.
 * Worst thing
 * See above.

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: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Deleting the last jessie boxes
 * Worst thing
 * Bashing my head against GitHub's and gerrit's APIs.

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 20 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * It's waffle with cream cheese and fruits season
 * deploying blubber
 * Worst thing
 * I had a dream about having french toast but I don't have all the ingredients

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
 * scap apply-patches submitted to Gerrit
 * Worst thing
 * It took way too much effort to get apply-patches done

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
 * slack was down, lol
 * Worst thing
 * tried to log on to slack

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: ~40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Pipeline meeting starting again/train local dev starting (I hope :))
 * Worst thing
 * anticipating meeting defrag

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: 30-40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * GSOC 👩‍💻👨‍💻
 * Worst thing
 * Closing the company. There's always one more thing to do. 🏦
 * Watercooler ⚰️ 😢

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