Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200205

= 2020-02-05 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available


 * 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs


 * 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)


 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
 * 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Europe, somewhere) - Everyone
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): 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 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
 * 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)


 * 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
 * 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
 * 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
 * 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
 * 9 Mar - wmf.23 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
 * 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen

SoS

 * Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Incoming/Needs attention
For 2/12:
 * Jenkins plugins security advisory - 2012-02-12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244582

From 2/5
 * API testing in core decisions (James mostly dealing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236680
 * ✅ ACTION: Tyler to e-mail CPT, CCing James, JR, Željko
 * Gerrit branch cleanup/scap clean cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244368
 * puppet hasn't run in beta for...a while (4291 minutes ago, ~3 days)
 * Mukunda to take a look, see what's going on (if more than just differing puppet versions)

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition

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

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

 * Blocked by:
 * Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - T233866
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - T233867

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * Train blocked
 * (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
 * Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
 * The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - T233866
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - T233867
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - T233868

Train status and happenings

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

WMF.18 blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866


 * T244019 Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia
 * appears to be minor enough to move forward unless things break more than is currently evident.
 * Will move forward with the train (cautiously) and reassess that situation later.

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 (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/


 * "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Hanging out with y'all.
 * Worst thing
 * Sitting in rooms.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Seeing all y'all
 * Inventing Jimbo™️ ("Yo, Jimbo") over beers with Maryana/JR/Brennen/Zeljko/Greg and co
 * Further work to come...
 * Worst thing
 * Not getting enough sleep following All Hands

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Seeing ya'll
 * Worst thing
 * I is a tired

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * All Hands was lovely, as always.
 * Worst thing
 * All Hands was draining, as always (and not everyone has left yet).

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * all hands was a bit fun
 * Worst thing
 * :( Snaily

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Meeting people in person at All Hands
 * Worst thing
 * Airplanes
 * Airports
 * Flights
 * Travel
 * Jet lag
 * More jet lag
 * Forever jet lag
 * There's no hope of a Zeppelin

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
 * Board and tasks up to date
 * Nothing much has happened on tasks, due to Jet Hands and All lag
 * Not entirely well, not very productive this week
 * Is anyone else interested in a threat modelling exercise with the security team?

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
 * Ž: please suggest Wikimedia's got talent as an idea for next year talent show format 😉
 * Worst thing
 * my bad attempt at OKR humor: https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msg/foundation-optional/7WQHTPBGJUw/PxJ030I1AwAJ

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * World Championship of Ping Pong 🏓
 * Worst thing
 * "Travelling east by six to nine time zones causes the biggest problems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag#Management_after_travelling_east 🥱

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/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn