Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020401

= 2020-04-01 =

IT'S OK TO NOT BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
 * https://people.wikimedia.org/~thcipriani/advice.html
 * https://xkcd.com/2287/

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
 * 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
 * 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
 * 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
 * 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
 * time, details, etc TBD
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (waiting to cancel the reservation until AirBnB extends its covid policy))

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


 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena


 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
 * 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
 * 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
 * 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
 * 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
 * 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
 * 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Web team portals gulp4 migration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247996
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.26 - T247773
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - T247774
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - T247774

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

 * Could not authenticate against github.com
 * T249076 Puppet buster migration sadness.

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Email Soon™ E-mail sent!

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition

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


 * scap has its first integration test
 * MediaWiki tarball / Wikimedia production are now PHP 7.4-compatible.
 * All extension and skin repos are now being tested against PHP 7.4.
 * Analytics Refinery release job isolated into a Docker container.

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
 * HOLD **
 * Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
 * By end of the month [March 2020?] more refined Key Results
 * C-Level discussion happening tomorrow, cleanup next week

Q4 Planning

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

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/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Refinery job moved to a Docker container. Learned a few more low level stuff in the process \o/
 * Maven Wikidata Query Gui is next
 * Zuul to scap pending SRE reviews
 * Worst thing
 * Haven't skated for a few weeks now :(
 * Where can we help?

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=pQSluQSeC6GO&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Have gotten through code review on a bunch of mediawiki-docker patches, people are complaining enough that it's evident it gets real use now.
 * Yay? <- I mean really a pretty good thing
 * Jitsi turns out to be real easy to install: https://jitsi.p1k3.org/
 * I can video again.
 * Worst thing
 * Too many tasks that are just represented entirely as windows and editor buffers I still have open from 2 weeks ago.
 * Attention deficit disorder is real.
 * Where can we help?
 * Reminders / phab tasks for things I am currently inevitably letting you down on appreciated.

What's on your workboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Our spring vegetable garden is looking boss. Warm sunshine. Weekend rain that will drive others away from the forest trails.
 * Worst thing
 * Just... the pressure cooker that envelopes my body and mind from time to time.
 * Where can we help?
 * Build us a robot nanny? I would like a robot that delivers popcorn <- feature creep but sounds good to me <- this is relevant to my interests as well I have a popcorn "whirley-pop" stove-top maker. Now I know what I'm making for lunch. <- seems like a stable-enough power core for a robot
 * https://www.netflix.com/title/80227090
 * Ž: did you see Surrogates? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/ Somewhat relevant 😬<- "enqueued"

What's on your workboard
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I now have more illumination for video calls.
 * Worst thing
 * Two hours of queuing to buy one basket of food. *sighs*
 * Where can we help?
 * Existential dread. <- shipping address? :-)

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I found stash of sour cherry jam
 * Worst thing
 * it rains when i want to go outside
 * my "r" key is st[r]uck
 * Where can we help?
 * i don't know

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Got Argo set up and building Blubber and Scap
 * Worst thing
 * My home server broke, and I can't use its VMs for Scap dev and work laptop is a little under-powered
 * Where can we help?
 * Make computers not ever break.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Made some progress on a toy scap test environment, really like the tool multipass ( https://multipass.run/ ) and cloud-init ( https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ )
 * Worst thing
 * Multipass seemingly only works with ubuntu (GG: booo! )
 * Where can we help?

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I spent 6 hours of my weekend making brisket
 * And maybe an hour making hoagie rolls from scratch
 * Worst thing
 * baking/cooking my only solace in an increasingly terrifying and chaotic world.
 * Where can we help?
 * Understanding.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * 5 GSOC students applied for two projects 👨‍🎓 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247833
 * dog-sitting a little hairy dog 🐶
 * started training for May 31 (probably solo) half-marathon 🏃‍♂️
 * Worst thing
 * closed my company yesterday, had it for more than 7 years 😢
 * Where can we help?
 * cure the current pandemic 🦠

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/?filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn&order=priority