Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-06-22

= 2022-06-22 =

Inspiration Week 2022

 * 3 weeks away!
 * July 11th: 
 * tl;dr: work on something; not work

ERC Update

 * Draft two in progress

Team API
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KoWCLyhHbekAf8OTmtDnCvNzssCnzEv479et9ljhhvs/edit#

🏆 Wins

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


 * GitLab Sprint summary by Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/288/gitlab-a-thon/
 * We have GitLab on new metal, and can probably enable GL Container Registry \o/
 * We know more about git than we did in May
 * Functional scap already self-installed in prod
 * JWT presentation!
 * Phab deployment has a runbook https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phabricator/Deployment
 * scap scap
 * successfully used it
 * ITCs getting done
 * somebody noticed phab

😶 Let's these this empty

 * +1'd gerrit changes
 * Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

June

 * ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (🔥⛺) (probably ((maybe)))
 * 9 Jun: Antoine
 * 15-17 Jun: Dan (🎒⛰)
 * 20 Jun: Juneteenth (observed) (U.S. Staff with Reqs)


 * 27 Jun: Tyler
 * 22 29 Jun: Brennen out afternoon
 * 20-30 Jun: Jaime

July

 * 1 Jul: Jaime; Dan (🏔); Tyler (afternoon)
 * 4 Jul: US Independence day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * ~Jul 7: Brennen out
 * 25-29 Jul: Dancy out

August

 * Antoine: some weeks
 * 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
 * 12 Aug: Brennen (🎸)
 * 27-31 Aug: Brennen (🔥)

September

 * 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * 1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)
 * ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (⛺🪕)

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 2 May – wmf.10 – Antoine + Brennen
 * 9 May - wmf.11 – Skipping for GitLab-a-thon
 * 16 May - wmf.12 - Jaime + Antoine
 * 23 May - wmf.13 - Ahmon + Jaime (Antoine out)
 * 30 May - wmf.14 - Jeena + Ahmon
 * 6 Jun - wmf.15 - Dan + Jeena (Brennen out)
 * 13 Jun - wmf.16 - Brennen + Jeena (Dan out)


 * 20 Jun - wmf.17 - Antoine + Brennen (Jaime out)
 * 27 Jun - wmf.18 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 4 Jul - wmf.19 - Jaime + Dan
 * 11 Jul - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Jaime
 * 18 Jul - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
 * 25 Jul - wmf.22 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 1 Aug - wmf.23 - Antoine + Brennen
 * 8 Aug - wmf.24 - No train (Brennen out)
 * 15 Aug - wmf.25

Rules

 * Put in three declarative statements about yourself
 * Two of them should be true
 * One of them should be a lie

Your turn

 * When it's your turn, read all three statments (earnestly)
 * We'll vote for the one we think is a lie with +1
 * Once voting is complete, you'll reveal the lie


 * Ahmon
 * I have met Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), the author of the famous Phrack article: Smashing the stack for fun and profit +1 +1
 * My mother is Chinese +1+1
 * I was fined for phone phreaking as a teenager +1 +1


 * Antoine
 * Learned skateboarding at 40 years old
 * Was prevented by coworkers from burning tires for work purposes +1+1+1
 * I am playing electrical bass +1 +1 +1


 * Chad
 * During the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, the WMF staff was stranded in Berlin. We tried to get home via:
 * Asking Mark Shuttleworth to fly us out on his private jet +1+1
 * Taking the Orient Express to Istanbul to fly home the long way
 * Taking a ship home from the UK+1 +1 +1 +1


 * Brennen
 * I play several stringed instruments, but am best at mandolin.+1+1have
 * I have had a false tooth since the age of 7. +1 +1
 * I have 17 first cousins.+1 +1 (18?)


 * Dan
 * I was once described as "half man, half sweater"
 * I have fallen into a pit of cow dung +1 +1
 * I am North American Dance Dance Revolution champion of 2002 +1+1+1 +1


 * Temi
 * I've met my favorite musician (Wizkid) in real life
 * I'm scared of animals and most things not human upclose +1+1 +1+1+1 +1
 * I only got 2hours of sleep today


 * Tyler
 * I'm running a half-marathon on the 4th of July +1 +1+1
 * I have an embroidered patch presented to me by the Wikimedia design team which depicts Peter I's beard tax coin +1
 * I own an Apple II +1+1