Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-04-05

= 2023-04-05 =


 * Last time

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Apr '23 edition


 * Mr. Widget doesn't seem to have broken again.
 * Job to test train branch cut on a daily basis
 * Successfully debugged an obscure buildkitd -> registry interaction
 * Multi-arch image support pre-req!
 * Still need access to logs for future debugging/troubleshooting. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322579

🌻 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#2023
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

April 2023

 * 7-10: German public holiday (Jaime out)
 * 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
 * (tentatively) 17–28: Antoine
 * (tentatively) 21 Fri: Brennen → Colorado Burnal Equinox
 * (tentatively) 29 Fri: Brennen → KS

May 2023
* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day
 * 01 Mon–05 Fri: 🎉 Offsite week—Add topics/activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
 * 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
 * 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
 * 15-25: Dan - vacation
 * 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
 * 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US staff with reqs

June 2023

 * 9 Fri: Brennen → Apogaea
 * 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
 * 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia

July 2023

 * 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
 * 03 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
 * 06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
 * 28 Fri: Brennen out part day for RockyGrass

August 2023

 * 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia
 * 09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
 * 04 Fri: Brennen → NYC (probable half day)
 * 11 Fri: Brennen out part day for Folks Fest
 * 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)

September 2023

 * 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
 * 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)

🔥🚂 Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


 * 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
 * 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
 * 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
 * 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
 * 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
 * 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
 * 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
 * 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
 * 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
 * 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
 * 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad Dan + Ahmon


 * 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
 * 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
 * 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad

Team discussions

 * SiteReleaseCollabEngineering updates?
 * Phorge thing
 * Alerting getting fun
 * GitLab has new disks, backups shouldn't explode for maybe a year, year and a half
 * Some discussion of patches
 * Outstanding questions for contint & doc - pushed to next meeting


 * APP + Timelines


 * Dev environment
 * What does "environment mean"
 * Is this an "elephant" too? "picking" a dev environment
 * How do we limit the blast radius of this—doing the same goal as 2018


 * Jeena knowledge transfer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rRRCEFDau-NXzitffjYNSJwXnJ27yU2o6S-QciD4BrA/edit#gid=0
 * When you think, "oh, I should ask jeena" add whatever you're thinking about to this ticket


 * K8s CKE training signup— https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M6PYrZMv5rVjuSpOM092L6BIjZwSwLvZJvDgfJFbLvg/edit#gid=0


 * Next sprint spike topic—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZS4g3zZR7XzLvJGzlL1WKazu0xWnz6sZY1Y_1z7D1Os/edit#


 * Legoktm mentions we oughta have volunteer GitLab admin(s) - seems like a fine idea
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333386