Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200108

= 2020-01-08 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 1 January (New Year's Day): Staff with reqs, Lars
 * 2 January: Lars
 * 2–3 January: James, Thcipriani


 * 2-10 January: Dan
 * 6 January: probably Lars (public holiday because it's been N days since Xmas)
 * [some dates TBC]: Antoine
 * 19-25 January: Lars in LA
 * 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs


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


 * 9 March (US DST+1 day): Staff with reqs


 * 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
 * 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 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


 * 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
 * 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)


 * 6 Jan - wmf.14 - Jeena + Lars
 * 13 Jan - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen
 * 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 + Antoine
 * 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Antoine + Dan
 * 17 Feb - wmf.20 - Dan + James
 * 24 Feb - wmf.21 - James + Jeena
 * 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Jeena + Lars
 * 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Lars + Brennen
 * 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Dan + James
 * 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Jeena

SoS

 * Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Incoming/Needs attention

 * New skill matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Jeena ^ done <3
 * "Pages with incorrect use of rating template" <- anyone know what that means, other than the obvious? :) Ž: probably using half-stars, or no stars -- Ž to pedant
 * New workboard for Q3: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/

All-Hands
https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2020/Conference_Schedule


 * Monday: "Department day" in the afternoon
 * Tuesday: "Team day" in the afternoon
 * Think about people you want to reach out to face-to-face
 * Thursday has "Open time"
 * Friday is "Unconference"

Book club

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - January '20 edition

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

Scrum of Scrums for next week
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

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * January 27th-31st - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
 * Need some help (from CPT? Maybe?) looking at jobqueue on beta cluster which is evidently running slowly: T241448

Release Engineering

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE ServiceOps: Rolling out PHP 7.2.26 to CI is blocked on creating a PHP 7.2.26 package T241224
 * CP: T241448
 * Blocking:
 * Core Platform: Quibble T236680
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * week of Dec 16th: 1.35.0-wmf.11 - T233859
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.14 - T233862; now on group0. New logspam is quiet so far
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - T233863
 * January 27th-31st - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE ServiceOps: Rolling out PHP 7.2.26 to CI is blocked on creating a PHP 7.2.26 package https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241224
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * week of Dec 16th: 1.35.0-wmf.11 - T233859
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.14 - T233862; now on group0. New logspam is quiet so far
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - T233863

Callouts

 * Release Engineering - January 27th-31st - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
 * Need some help looking at jobqueue on beta cluster which is evidently running slowly: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241448

Train status and happenings

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

watch -n 5 sh -c "~brennen/bin/logspam | sort -nr | head -25"
 * group0 yesterday, not much happened
 * logstash should work, log tailing shouldn't be necessary, but tailing is more efficient

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/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Quiet
 * Worst thing
 * Personal mistakes about backups
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * raspberrypi (thanks Brennen!)
 * Worst thing
 * moving 600-800 pounds (unsure, guessing based on how heavy Rowan was in the wheel-barrow) of bricks
 * fucking war :((
 * 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
 * Getting home after three weeks in London.
 * Worst thing
 * Not having to worry about the site uptime.
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * New cat friend
 * Worst thing
 * Things in the world
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Much time off. Recharged and made good progress on a personal project.
 * Worst thing
 * While days are getting longer (by minutes per day), they're still short and dark.
 * Trying not to mention the war.
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Remodeled office over holiday break.
 * Worst thing
 * Tons of phabricator work to catch up on.
 * What's on your workboard?
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * break
 * Worst thing
 * war
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * catching up on various things 🏃‍♂️
 * Worst thing
 * safeguard 🤯
 * What's on your workboard
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/ (I guess :)) ✅