Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200826

= 2020-08-26 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 21 August Mukunda day off


 * 28 August Thcipriani moving some more :(
 * 28 August Jeena off
 * 31 August Lars day off


 * 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
 * 1 Sep: Lars day off
 * 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school
 * 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs


 * 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 11 Nov (Veterens 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/
 * Deb is in charge now.

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now. 🎻

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.5 - T257973
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.6 - T257974
 * Next week: No Train
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.6 - T257974
 * Next week: No Train

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)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Incoming/Needs attention

 * Offsite?
 * End of Sept.-ish?
 * No vehement kdsaljf opposition

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

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)

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
 * New desk
 * Worst thing
 * Smoke

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Work on Quibble resuming with Kosta and Adam Wight


 * Worst thing
 * turns out I am not familiar with doc.wikimedia.org docroot PHP app ;D

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Probably just the flu
 * Worst thing
 * The flu
 * Other:
 * I guess this seems a bit less silly? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/622575
 * dev-images is still pretty silly.

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
 * My daughter running around holding her toy drill gun above her head yelling "dada dada dada!"
 * Worst thing
 * The air.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finally got Scap release tagged
 * Worst thing
 * It took months to test new Scap release

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Met with Erika, had good discussion. I learned that Erika is planning organize some sort of "agile practices" working group. As I understand it, this will will hopefully standardize some best practices and workflows around agile planning practices on wikimedia teams. I intend to contribute my phabricator knowledge and learn some things which will inform my work on improving Phabricator.
 * Worst thing
 * The best thing was way too many words.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * sooo cloose to automating that darn deployment calendar (very exciting technical problems)
 * Worst thing
 * MoooOoVinG/physical exhaustion :(((

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * 3 weeks of vacation 🏝
 * Worst thing
 * somebody (my age) died after the race I ran this Sunday 💀 https://www.jutarnji.hr/life/zivotne-price/istrcao-polumaraton-usao-u-cilj-i-preminuo-zivio-je-100-na-sat-plivao-s-morskim-psima-15015178

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