Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020415

= 2020-04-15 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
 * 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars


 * 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 23 April (Not-Easter infill): Staff with reqs
 * 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
 * 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
 * 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
 * time, details, etc TBD
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 29-31 May: Brennen (NEVERMIND)

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


 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James


 * 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
 * 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
 * 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
 * 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + 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:
 * Web team: Portals gulp4 migration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247996
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - T247774
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - T247775
 * Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
 * Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * Next week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
 * [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
 * This morning :)
 * Notes: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/Bugs_and_priority

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition

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


 * Docker images published on buster-based contint2001 (as part of general temporary switch-over from contint1001 to 2001 for buster migration)
 * I should patch dev-images, eh?
 * Composer is now authenticated with github
 * Dropped basic PHP 7.1 testing from CI

Q4 Planning

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

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/
 * Couple of choice TODO items:
 * Export zuul metrics to Prometheus
 * Should 'doc' machines (i.e. doc1001) have contint-roots as a group?
 * Decide what to do about MW 1.31 / PHP 7.0 incompatible extensions in Wikimedia Fundraising production

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Found a fix for zuul-merger namespace clashing
 * zuul-merger on contint2001 now runs out of Zuul deployed via scap!
 * Worst thing
 * Fighting puppet ;D

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Shell scripts.
 * Worst thing
 * Shell scripts.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * My daughter belly laughing uncontrollably at my wife's juggling skills.
 * Worst thing
 * A death in the family.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Progress with phan/seccheck merger.
 * Worst thing
 * I guess we're going to have to start PHP8 CI jobs soon, yay for more load on CI…

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Productive vacation hacking on several personal projects
 * Worst thing
 * pandemicweatherOKRssoftwarepythoncomputersuspoliticsukpoliticshumanityandeverything
 * HN commenters in particular

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Had a good discussion with Brennen about local dev stuff, especially regarding docker images and the need for a EngProd docker registry.
 * Worst thing
 * vague uncertainty about the future

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Book club happened <3
 * Found a good podcast -- together apart -- https://www.priyaparker.com/podcast
 * FInished a good book -- an everlasting meal -- http://www.tamareadler.com/book/about/
 * Worst thing
 * Code deployment office hour: crickets + smallest train of 1.35 series

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Frontend web performance training
 * Worst thing
 * dead car battery

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