Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-04-20

= 2022-04-20 =

✨Values✨
DF, I, F&OS, Q, #T

ERC Update

 * ERC team members are giving feedback (feeback deadline closed)

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Apr '22 edition


 * Jamie deployed the train by his lonesome today -- and found bugs \o/
 * Jaime rolled back the train
 * Temi learned about GPG keys
 * Brain still works, mostly
 * Fixed bug in proxy balancing in scap
 * Scap deploy-promote (failed but will succeed!)
 * Antoine briefly looked away and somehow Wikipedia still exists

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/wikimedia/+/dashboard/teams:releng#:~:text=Keep%20this%20empty

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

April

 * 1 Apr: U.S. April Holiday (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * 4–8 Apr: Brennen out sick
 * 7-11 Apr: Jaime
 * 11–15 Apr: Antoine
 * 17 Apr: Brennen traveling


 * 18-22 Antoine work but kids are in holidays so less availability in my evenings
 * 18-21: Dancy PTO
 * 22 Apr: Earth Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * 4-29 Apr: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave

May

 * 23-27 (maybe)?: Tyler
 * 25-27 May: Antoine
 * 30 May: Memorial Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)

June

 * ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (Apogaea)

📚 Book club/🍱 Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🔥🚂 Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


 * 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 8 Nov - wmf.8 - NO TRAIN (Veteran's day Nov 11)
 * 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
 * 22 Nov - wmf.10 - NO TRAIN
 * 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
 * 27 Dec - wmf.15 - NO TRAIN
 * 3 Jan - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 10 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 17 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
 * 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 7 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
 * 14 Feb - wmf.22 - Antoine + Jeena
 * 21 Feb - wmf.23 - Dan + Antoine (President's day on Monday)
 * 28 Feb - wmf.24 - Brennen + Dan
 * 6 Mar - wmf.25 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 13 Mar - wmf.26 - Jeena + Ahmon (US enters Daylight Saving Time)
 * 20 Mar – 1.39.0-wmf.1, 1.39.0-wmf.2, 1.39.0-wmf.3, 1.39.0-wmf.4 —🚂🧪 Trainsperiments, ya'll
 * 28 Mar - wmf.5 - Antoine + Jeena
 * 4 Apr - wmf.6 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine
 * Security patch problems
 * Quiet today on group1
 * 11 Apr - wmf.7 - Ahmon + Jaime


 * 18 Apr - wmf.8 - Jeena + Brennen (Antoine can cover UTC mornings)
 * 25 Apr - wmf.9 - Brennen + Jeena  (Antoine can do)
 * 2 May – wmf.10 – Antoine + Brennen OR should we skip for GItLabsperiment? Or skip wmf.11?

Hiring Update

 * 186 Applicants
 * 34 still active (3 in the panel; 2 in hiring manager screen)
 * Nearing the point for the roundup

🌱 Sprin{g,t} Cleaning

 * Q3 Goals: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Goals#This_Quarter
 * Next: GitLab-a-thon:
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/2022-05-gitlab-sprint
 * Please give some feedback


 * INBOX triage
 * 29 9 tasks currently → 0!!! Feels good.
 * Do
 * Doing (for things this quarter)
 * Priority Backlog (for things for next sprint)
 * Current sprint (for things...in this sprint)
 * Delegate
 * Untag
 * Move to: Release Engineering (Radar)
 * Defer
 * Soon → Soon
 * Maybe never → Seen
 * Q3 work cleanup
 * Old sprint board cleanup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5861/