Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-04-06

= 2022-04-06 =

🔐Key signing
https://people.wikimedia.org/~thcipriani/2022-03-30_ksp.txt

✨Values✨
DF, I, F&OS, Q, #T

ERC Update

 * ERC team members are giving feedback (I gave some feedback—deadline Soon™)

🏆 Wins

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


 * Scap 4.4.1 released (includes container image building stuff) \o/
 * Brennen talked publicly and was not shamed by it
 * Onboarding Jaime!
 * Dan's blubber demo!
 * docker build can use a blubber file directly now
 * Supports bd808 and developer tooling
 * Opens up for a more flexible release model
 * Job post posted
 * scap backport exits if change is not mergeable
 * Trainsperiment was instructive AND SUCCESSFUL!
 * Got a working mw container image deployed from deploy1002 woohoo 🐳🎉
 * Fixed check-new-errors script (extremely tiny win) \o/
 * Jaime's first scap release!
 * I don't have to press enter any more! (added -n)
 * Train schedule worked!
 * deploy-promote upstreamed to scap!
 * Apr '22 edition


 * Jamie deployed the train by his lonesome today -- and found bugs \o/
 * Jaime rolledback the train
 * Temi learned about GPG keys

😶 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)


 * 4-29 Apr: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave
 * 4–8 Apr: Brennen out sick
 * ~17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
 * 7-11 Apr: Jaime
 * 11–15 Apr: Antoine
 * 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)

May

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

June

 * ~9-10 Jun: Brennen

📚 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 - ???  (Antoine can do)

Hiring Update

 * Had five interviews
 * 15x applications
 * 13 rejected so far
 * 1 is in tech task
 * 1 been passed on to tech screen

🌱 Sprin{g,t} Cleaning

 * INBOX triage
 * 27 tasks currently
 * 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
 * Maye never → Seen
 * Q3 work cleanup
 * Old sprint board cleanup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5861/