Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201209

= 2020-12-09 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
 * 21-23 Dec Jeena, Dan
 * 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US 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


 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
 * 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda


 * 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
 * 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
 * 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
 * NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7

Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0

Status

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
 * 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
 * 2020-11-25: Brennen
 * 2020-12-02: Ahmon
 * 2020-12-09: Tyler
 * 2020-12-16: Antoine

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 T263186
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 T263187
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 T263188
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 T263188
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Callouts
1.36.0-wmf.22 is the last train of the year!

Incoming/Needs attention
Q3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#

Book club/Lunch and Learn
2020-12-07: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk/2020-12-07
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
 * Happened!

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Dec '20 edition

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


 * Scap 3.16.0 released and deployed
 * Dropped scap plugins from mw-config
 * unconditional restart on deploy for opcache corruption deployed

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/view/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * None
 * Blocking:
 * None (AFAIK)
 * Updates:
 * Worked on l10n handling for MW containers in Kubernetes
 * Running rebuildLocalisationCache.php in mediawiki-dev (helm chart) results in 4MB of debug log spam that shows in up kubectl logs. Learning about MW logging to find a way to disable or redirect debug log messages.
 * Best thing
 * Beautiful weather
 * Worst thing
 * N/A

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * bunch of infra patch pending
 * some Phabricator translation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269339
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Quibble with Apache is progressing (using supervisord)
 * doc.wikimedia.org docroot migration schedule tomorrow completing the switch to use scap \o/
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Generally making headway on mediawiki-docker things.
 * Worst thing
 * Local politics.
 * Worst thing
 * Local politics.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Need review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/647058
 * ^ will allow me to get vendor into the MW image, among other things
 * Blocking:
 * Bryan Davis needs review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/647120
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Thinking about how to securely do npm publish in the pipeline
 * Thinking about mw-on-k8s
 * Working on mw-cli
 * MW-docker images
 * Helping w/deployment charts
 * need to review the buildkit stuff again
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * nada
 * Blocking:
 * zilch?
 * Updates:
 * Scap 3.16.0 deployed to production
 * Best thing
 * Only a couple more weeks to solstice and vacation
 * Worst thing
 * scap apply-patches doesn't handle errors well
 * Still two more weeks to solstice and vacation
 * Sunrise to sunset 6 hours 2 minutes today, but it was cloudy and rainy all day

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * TRAIN!
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Lars: formatting scap patch
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority