Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-01-11

= 2022-01-11 =

✨Values✨

 * Developer focused
 * Freedom and open source
 * Integrity
 * Teamwork and collaboration
 * Quality

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Nov '21 edition

out a path forward for GitLab runner architecture with SRE; moved projects to top-level group with runners
 * Deploy MediaWiki manually in Train-Dev to k8s!
 * Pipeline supports copying files out of containers as published artifacts in Jenkins!
 * Deployed Tuesday with a script thing!
 * Scap 4.0.3 release!
 * record time for scap release
 * Worked?!l
 * https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos \o/
 * https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/thcipriani/bacon-stats#-bacon-window-stats
 * Data³ dashboard new stuff!
 * Dec '21 edition

* improvements to in-progress status for workboards * anti-vandalism feature to prevent merging more than 5 tasks in a single transaction. * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298063 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288956 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295934 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297249
 * Greg now director of FR tech!
 * Performance scap improvements (beta-scap-sync-world takes less time than ever)
 * Scap backtrace much cleaner (fewer of them for common error situations)
 * Several small Phabricator improvements including:
 * Test wiki that has NO LocalSettings.php — just uses yaml
 * Pipelinelib for helm3
 * Scap backport validation
 * Jan '21 edition


 * New release of Java Gearman plugin

😶 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

January

 * 3 Jan: New Years (observed—US Staff with reqs)


 * 14–18 Jan: Tyler—getting PRK (long weekend, effectively)
 * 17 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr Day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 28 Jan: Jeena

February

 * 21 Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day (US Staff with reqs)

📚 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 + Dan
 * 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen

📤 Train update email

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


 * Set by train conductor next week

Steps
Prepare (a little) – to paraphrase Strunk & White: The more clearly you see the shape of your demo, the better the chance of success[^1]. What's the one thing you want us to remember? Tell us a story – What's a real problem your demo solves? Don't just tell us how it works, show us its value! What's next!? – What are the next steps with your project? Or what does your work enable?

[^1]: 

SignUp
Tyler Cipriani — BPFCC, eBPF Ahmon Dancy - scap prep auto Jeena - scap backport validation (if I can get my train-dev environment working)