Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-11-09

= 2022-11-09 =

☑️ Cheesy team check-in question

 * Describe your last week in terms of the weather (e.g., "mostly sunny", "chance of rain") and WHY :D

🏆 Wins

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


 * Blubber's gitlab ci file is enough to move the project over
 * Setup in gitlab ci: jwt auth and buildkit
 * New features in blubber: builders improvement from Jaime + feature for running variant from Jaime
 * Jaime + Antoine upgraded scap in the dev-tools project
 * Team likes each other
 * Train feels less stressful lately
 * GitLab runners in K8s now running buildkit with caching—nothing to a k8s cluster
 * Scap builds docs on GitLab


 * Nov '22 edition


 * Scap repo is fully moved over to GitLab
 * Internship opportunities!
 * Dan's daughter can now pedal a bike

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * +1'd gerrit changes
 * Gerrit access requests

📅 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

November

 * 8 Nov: Election Day (US staff with reqs)


 * 7-10 Nov: Jeena out
 * 11 Nov: Veteran's Day (US staff with reqs)
 * 21-23 Nov: Dancy out, 🦃 Tyler out
 * 24 Nov: 🦃 Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)
 * 25 Nov: Day after Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)

December

 * 2 Dec: Brennen out
 * 23 Dec: Christmas Eve (Observed in lieu) (US staff with reqs)
 * 24 Dec–31 Dec: Global end of year holiday

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 22 Aug - wmf.26 - Antoine + Chad
 * 29 Aug - wmf.27 - Dan + Antoine (Brennen out)
 * 5 Sep - wmf. 28 - NOT Jaime ;) — Jeena + Dan (Brennen out 'til Tues)
 * 12 Sep - 1.40.0-wmf.1 – Ahmon + Jeena (Jaime, Brennen Out Wed)
 * 19 Sep - wmf.2 - Jaime + Ahmon
 * 26 Sep - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jaime
 * 3 Oct - wmf.4 - Chad + Brennen
 * 10 Oct - wmf. 5 - Dan + Chad (Monday holiday)
 * 17 Oct - wmf.6 - Antoine + Dan
 * 24 Oct - wmf.7 - Jaime + Antoine
 * 31 Oct - wmf.8 - Jeena + Jaime – Jaime out Monday
 * 7 Nov - No Train (Election Day Tues.; Veteran's Day Fri.)


 * 14 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 21 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving Thu–Fri)
 * 28 Nov - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 5 Dec - wmf. 13 - Chad + Ahmon
 * 12 Dec - wmf.14 - Antoine + Chad
 * 19 Dec - No Train
 * 26 Dec - No Train

As-yet unnamed, un-emojied Q2 RelEng Sprint
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jc00Ep-2Entx4YrD3nKzSLrOCrYr5HT4VZd09jam588/edit#heading=h.oer0e4u2wsb6