Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200325

= 2020-03-25 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)


 * 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
 * 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
 * 24 April (Not-Easter): (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
 * 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


 * 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
 * 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
 * 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
 * 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
 * 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
 * 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
 * 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda


 * 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan (and Antoine, apparently :-))
 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 27 Apr - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 4 May - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 11 May - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 18 May - wmf.6 - Dan + James (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
 * 25 May - wmf.7 - James + Jeena
 * 1 Jun - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 8 Jun - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 15 Jun - wmf.10 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 22 Jun - wmf.11 - 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:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - T233871
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - T233872
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - T233872
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Add new suggestions ^
 * Email Soon™

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

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 discussoin 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 (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
 * "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Math.
 * Math.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * A strange hopefulness that after the COVID-19 outbreak has passed, people will realize we can make drastic and immediate change to solve big existential problems like climate change.
 * Worst thing
 * Dread that we're doomed.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Communications failure
 * It's been a week since I've left the house. Halp.
 * It's been a week since I've left the house. Halp.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * my foot bath arrived
 * Worst thing
 * it broke T.T

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Pushed three changes to Gerrit for Scap
 * Worst thing
 * People

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248273 is really weird and I can't explain it
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248273 is really weird and I can't explain it

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Hiring moving forward
 * Working with JR + Will on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Worst thing
 * Not knowing what to do with beans
 * Due to a great article: https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/01/ideas-for-cooking-dried-beans-best-heirloom-beans-rancho-gordo-alternatives.html I have a lot of beans
 * I can only eat so much bean soup
 * If you have lentils you can make mjudderah (make sure to add lots of cumin!), it's great with cucumber tomato salad and yogurt!
 * I have a good kale tuscan soup recipe (made with cannellini beans)
 * Homemade baked beans are better than canned ones
 * As are homemade refried beans

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * 5 am Coronavirus solo half-marathon during earthquake 😱 https://www.strava.com/activities/3205610326
 * Worst thing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Zagreb_earthquake

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/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn