Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-03-02

= 2022-03-02 =

✨Values✨

 * Integrity
 * quality
 * freedom and open
 * developer focus
 * #together

Kate's here!

 * Q&A/short time for chat

ERC Update

 * Thanks for the folks who attended sessions
 * Compiling a "very" first-draft of comm guidelines Mon Mar 7

🏆 Wins

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


 * logspam-watch is fast now because Ahmon is good at computers and can tolerate modifying Perl
 * Wrapping up MediaWiki settings loader expedition caching—abstractions for MediaWiki config settings—they can declare how they're cached and how long (with probablistic early expiry to help with lock contention)
 * Mukunda has freed himself from train :D
 * Jaime joined, already has a scap patchset
 * Things we didn't do but benefit from: New GitLab test instance in devtools project: https://gitlab.devtools.wmcloud.org/ --> same puppet as prod!
 * Tyler's DigitalOcean exploration spike
 * Scap prep auto! is neat <3
 * Antoine's qemu learnings!
 * moving train-dev to helm3
 * Mar '22 edition


 * Scap 4.4.1 released (includes container image building stuff) \o/
 * Onboarding Jaime!

😶 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

March

 * 13 Mar: U.S. Daylight savings
 * 14–25 Mar: Daylight confusion time
 * 18 Mar: U.S. March Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
 * 27 Mar: European Daylight savings time

April

 * 11 Apr - May 6: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave
 * ~17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
 * 7-11: Jaime

📚 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 - wmf.27 - Antoine + Jeena
 * 27 Mar - wmf.28 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine (Europe enters Daylight Saving Time)

📤 Train update email

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
 * https://trainbow.toolforge.org


 * Sent by train conductor next week ✅

🪩 Retro
Let's grade ourselves. Goals are action-oriented "but when action is relentless and unceasing, it can be a hamster wheel of grim striving"

"We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience" – John Dewey

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