Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200722

= 2020-07-22 =

Tyler: I'm taking a vacation! Mukunda will be running the meeting today!

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 16–17 July: Mukunda's out, birthday ;) Happy birthday!


 * 11–26 July: Antoine out
 * 13th & 22–24 July: Tyler out


 * 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs


 * 7 Sep (Labor day): 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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]


 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US?
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train

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
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - T256669
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - T257969
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - T257970
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - T257969
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - T257970

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)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Individual Tuning Sessions
Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * 2020-08-03: Train dev environment with Lars Wirzenius
 * Send Lars your SSH public key

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition

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


 * CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
 * Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
 * Cassandra Docker image
 * Jenkins node Docker image cleanup & re-onlining after disk space recovers
 * Credentials and environment variables in PipelineLib

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

Ahmon

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Blubber hacking
 * Worst thing
 * Noisy shinken alerts

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

 * 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/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Slightly less-dysfunctional Jenkins.
 * Worst thing
 * Termites.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?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/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * hurray my teacup arrived
 * Worst thing
 * soooooo tired

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Made progress on train-dev
 * Worst thing
 * It's too warm

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Bought an RX-8
 * Worst thing
 * Bought an RX-8

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority
 * Progres on the phab metrics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M308

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (out Wed-Fri)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Deplo
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: 🏝 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Donated blood after many years
 * Worst thing
 * It's hard to get enough sleep if you wake up early to run while it's not too warm

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