Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-09-14

= 2022-09-14 =

🏆 Wins

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


 * GitLab meeting with Bryan at GitLab—ultimate is free if we want it, license compliance thing (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/compliance/license_compliance/#license-compliance)
 * Stage-train automatic mode ran all the way through!
 * MW-to-k8s deploy via scap
 * Blocker/resource conversation
 * GitLab trusted runners testing can progress now that we can hit the internet
 * sooo close to deploying phab with scap

🌻 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

September

 * 2 Sep: Thcipriani
 * 29Aug/2Sep: Antoine is present but kids are back to school
 * 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * 1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)


 * 9-19 Sept: Jaime
 * ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (⛺🪕)

October

 * 10 Oct: Indigenous Peoples' Day (Columbus Day)

November

 * 8 Nov: Election Day (US staff with reqs)
 * 11 Nov: Veteran's Day (US staff with reqs)
 * 24 Nov: Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)
 * 25 Nov: Day after Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)

December

 * 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
 * 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

⚠️ Tech Internship opportunity
Kick off recruiting in october Make offers in December Cohorts start in February.
 * ⚠️ Proposals due Sept 22nd
 * First cohort Q3 (apparently for six months)
 * Want to convert these into actual reqs
 * Are there projects they could work on?
 * Questions:
 * Timeline? It will be 40hrs a week for four months.
 * Do we get to pick the human? Still unclear :(

Ideas

 * Logging dashboard -- show only new errors

Sprint leftovers

 * Plan to start a new GitLab-focused sprint Soon™
 * Let's finish up Bonus Level work
 * MW-on-k8s: hooray.
 * Phab deploy: Looks like a lot of progress, deploy soon?

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Now for everyone's favorite game…

📥 INBOX triage \o/

 * https://phab.releng.team

Triage process:


 * 1) Is it for our team? Is this a duplicate?
 * 2) Do we need to do this Soon™?
 * Priority Backlog: we want/need to work on this
 * Blocking: exogenous work we must do


 * 1) Is this *for* our team or *involving* our team but not *actionable* by our team?
 * Radar: tasks not currently actionable for the team (watching, blocked, done within our team)


 * 1) Is this valuable work that we should consider doing Someday™?
 * Seen: no plans to work on it, not blocking anyone


 * Oh, you made it here? Decline or Invalid ? I guess.