Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200805

= 2020-08-05 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3-7 August: Greg taking the week off
 * 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
 * 21 August Mukunda day off
 * 31 August Lars day off
 * tbd: Brennen camping at some point


 * 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
 * 1 Sep: Lars day off
 * 7 Sep (Labor day): 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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 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

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:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - T257970
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - T257971
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - T257972
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - T257971
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - T257972

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

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259002
 * We nominally own this process as with all broken processes
 * No one on the team, as far as I'm aware, knows how to do this
 * Sam Reed has offered to pair with someone on this creation
 * Volunteers? Ahmon thank you! https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki

Individual Tuning Sessions
Want to start this week: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

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
 * 2020-08-17: Quibble with Antoine Musso

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition

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


 * CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
 * Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
 * Cassandra Docker image
 * Jenkins node Docker image cleanup & re-onlining after disk space recovers
 * Collection of disk space stats on Jenkins workers
 * Credentials and environment variables in PipelineLib
 * Blubber now correctly supports multi-stage artifact copies

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

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Getting train-dev going on my machine
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Cause something always explode while I am on vacations
 * Chromium no more fills cache with .org.chromium.XXX or lighthouse.XXXX directory. Thus the Docker agents should no more disconnect due to the huge cache filing them.
 * Thank you all for the debugging, assistance etc.


 * Worst thing
 * Did I mention code review?

What's on your workboard

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

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Quiet trains
 * Worst thing
 * Trains rarely stay quiet

What's on your workboard

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

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * PipelineLib patch reviews!
 * Worst thing
 * Not having a proper weekend (too many needs from too many people)

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority
 * Will be filing some tasks and talking to folks about MW image composition

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
 * Will be working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255835 this week

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * New toy
 * Worst thing
 * World. Humanity. 10. 19. 45.

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Making progress getting some actual data for phabricator project reports
 * Worst thing
 * Still no notification server in Phabricator.

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * As my high school art teacher used to say, "every day above ground is a great day"
 * Worst thing
 * Houses are so. much. work.

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

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