Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020610

= 2020-06-10 =

Thcipriani: I'm attending a budget meeting today because I find budgets fascinating -- Lars will run the meeting today! EngProd Management+CTO once-every-so-often meeting. Brennen will run the meeting today!

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs


 * 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs

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


 * 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars

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:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Train branch cut time is changing:
 * Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday…
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - T253023
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174

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
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!


 * REMINDER: fill out the "silent Friday" survey by June 15th


 * REMINDER: File your wellness benefits by June 15th: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Wellness_Program
 * See also related office hours in staff calendar


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
 * Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!


 * Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Thcipriani: Please update as you have time -- should be quick, get it out of the way :)
 * Thanks: Brennen, James, Mukunda (as of 2020-06-08)
 * Lars didn't see anything needing updating for himself

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Add any recommendations

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition

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


 * Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
 * Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
 * MediaWiki branch cuts are going to be fully automated, at last!!!!
 * TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
 * Interactive logspam-watch

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Resuming on review work and grooming task backlogs!
 * Worst thing
 * Nothing achieved on Monday, it was kids day

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finally sorted out all the miscellany with TimedMediaHandler
 * Worst thing
 * Living in a failing state.
 * Pollen.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Am in London.
 * Worst thing
 * Am in lockdown anyway.

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: ~25 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Our baby pony, "Neptune"
 * Pony pictures?
 * Worst thing
 * Having to haul to the vet 2 hours away on Sunday night

What's on your workboard

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

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Found a flat, signed contract. Moving within the foreseeable future.
 * Worst thing
 * Going to move.
 * Humanity in general.
 * https://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/CalvinAndHobbesOnSurestSignOfIntelligentLife

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Made some progress on running puppet in the train-dev vm
 * Worst thing
 * Our production Puppet is insane

What's on your workboard

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

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Missing the team meeting again :(
 * Missing the team meeting again :(

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

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/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn