Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200902

= 2020-09-02 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
 * 1 Sep: Lars day off
 * 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school


 * 3-4 Sep: Brennen camping
 * 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs


 * 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): 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


 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena


 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
 * 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

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

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.6 - T257974
 * This week: No Train
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - T257976
 * This week: No Train
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - T257976

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
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * 3.15.0 has the sync-world subcommand
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes 2020-09-14
 * TODO: thcipriani update calendar invite and wikipage

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition

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


 * Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
 * After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.
 * Scap version 3.15.0 released (in git, if not as .deb yet)

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '20 edition

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

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/4845/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Best thing
 * scap sync working in train-dev
 * Worst thing
 * MW l10n

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finally updated CI jobs for git v2 / checking out in a local branch and fetch all tags


 * Worst thing
 * PHP proc_close doesn't quite terminate the spawned backgrounded process :D

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * So far GitLab is easy to configure
 * Pandoc for slide decks is pretty neat: `pandoc --self-contained -t slidy ./foo.md > slides.html`
 * Worst thing
 * The endless doomscroll

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * The prospect of much more space.
 * Worst thing
 * Not there yet.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Peach
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Had fun while on vacation: hack hacky hack. New project is excit... wait, not talking about new project. Cake! I had cake!
 * Worst thing
 * The blinding light is an oncoming train. And not in a good way.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Made parts on my CNC mill finally. Also matrix seems cool.
 * Worst thing
 * Difficulty getting consensus on how to implement "cycle time" metric in phabricator. Discussions ongoing in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148805 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261493

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Done. Moving.
 * GitLab consultation starting to move...today's the day...
 * Archiving a bunch of GitHub repos
 * Worst thing
 * Lots of things hinge on the GitLab consultation... :)

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

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