Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201007

= 2020-10-07 =

I (thcipriani) can't be here today, asking Brennen to run things in my stead.

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 2 Oct: Lars out
 * 2 Oct: car service thcipriani
 * 5-6 Oct: Dan out


 * 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
 * 16 Oct: Lars out
 * 26-30 Oct: Offsite:
 * https://wudele.toolforge.org/1yMqruitkbYO62xV
 * Week of 26th October (see cal invite from Greg, and email from Greg)


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs, and also Lars


 * 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
 * 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
 * 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out

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 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
 * 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Mukunda
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine


 * 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
 * 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
 * 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
 * 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
 * 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263182
 * 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Antoine + Mukunda https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184
 * 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.20
 * 7 Dec - wmf.21
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22
 * 21 Dec - ???
 * 28 Dec - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
 * 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - T263177
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.12 - T263178 (maybe...not likely at this point)
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.13 - T263179
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.12 - T263178 (maybe...not likely at this point)
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.13 - T263179

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Incoming/Needs attention
Add ideas for our offsite (week of 2020-10-26): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_PxdoMi06cQbhNAf46RI9_ay_5R_tfYB4q7GIyBX364/edit

Individual tuning sessions

 * Target week of 2020-10-12
 * Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Q2 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition

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

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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
 * "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage!

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4845/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Better air quality, train-dev almost "done" (awaiting review from Lars)
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing


 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * #looptober
 * GitLab consultation input period is finished
 * Worst thing
 * ...which means we have to make decisions

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Boxes are slowly going away.
 * Worst thing
 * My Internet connection has been down for 4 days. :(

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Trebuchets throwing flaming pianos
 * Not my secret new hobby project
 * Worst thing
 * Blisters

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week
10 kilowatt hours of batteries 7 kilowatts solar panels 4 kilowatts of inverters
 * Best thing
 * Off-grid progress:
 * Worst thing
 * multiple train derailment last week.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Writing club is happening ✍️ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263660
 * Worst thing
 * Slight pain in a foot just a few days before the marathon 😱

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn