Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201125

= 2020-11-25 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
 * 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone


 * 23-25 Nov: Mukunda - make it a week?
 * 25 Nov: Greg - extra day to get ready for turkey day
 * 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


 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine


 * 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
 * 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
 * 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
 * NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7

Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0

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
 * 2020-11-25: Brennen
 * 2020-12-02: Ahmon

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.18 T263184
 * This week: No Train
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 T263186
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 T263186
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ITC Manager feedback -- you should all have it!
 * Fun day: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Tech_Department_Fun_Day_2020

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
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
 * happened: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk/2020-11-23

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '20 edition

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


 * Gerrit security upgrade
 * Gerrit grafana dashboard
 * Created pipelinelib-experimental cloud project for working on pipelinelib
 * Scap 3.16.0 release (tagged, waiting on SRE now)
 * logspam-watch improvements

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/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * logspam-watch mods
 * deploy-promote: poll SCM for merge of wikiversions commit. Update your checkouts of mediawiki/tools/release!
 * Added flag to rebuildLocalisationCache.php to skip MessageBlobStore clear (mw-on-k8s prep). Will update scap to use the new flag once all live versions of MW are running w/the new commit.  Hopefully friction on new scap releases will be greatly reduced by then.
 * Learning about helm charts


 * Best thing
 * Commits getting merged
 * Worst thing
 * COVID Thanksgiving

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Gerrity security update + Gerrit Summit + Security training
 * deploy-promote automatic (that surprised me)


 * Worst thing
 * Was a lot of overlap at some point

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Tricked a coworker into writing Perl.
 * Worst thing
 * Home improvement.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Getting my workshop set up.
 * Worst thing
 * Realizing how much there is to do to the workshop.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

 * link recommendation
 * rdf streaming...cluster :)
 * dev images
 * mwcli patches need review
 * automated image updates in beta
 * kubeadm convo with bstorm

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Scap release tagged \o/
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orghyn91ZMo (Past, Present and Future of Empirical Software Engineering: A Q&A with Greg Wilson)
 * ALso worst thing: it's very depressing for anyone writing software
 * Worst thing
 * Beta cluster

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda
(Vacation)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Paper club was a really good discussion! Happy about that.
 * 5 weeks left of 2020!
 * Worst thing
 * 3 *work weeks* left of 2020 :\

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority