Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-03-09

= 2022-03-09 =

✨Values✨

 * Integrity
 * quality
 * freedom and open
 * developer focus
 * #together

ERC Update

 * Nothing so far this week.

Hiring

 * Internal job is posted: https://app.greenhouse.io/internal_job_board/applications/4008541
 * Hiring loop: Antoine, Ahmon, ...unclear who else

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Mar '22 edition


 * Scap 4.4.1 released (includes container image building stuff) \o/
 * Brennen talked publicly and was not shamed by it
 * Onboarding Jaime!
 * Dan's blubber demo!
 * docker build can use a blubber file directly now
 * Supports bd808 and developer tooling
 * Opens up for a more flexible release model
 * Job post posted

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/wikimedia/+/dashboard/teams:releng#:~:text=Keep%20this%20empty

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

March

 * 13 Mar: U.S. Daylight savings
 * 14–25 Mar: Daylight confusion time
 * 18 Mar: U.S. March Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
 * 27 Mar: European Daylight savings time

April

 * 4-29 Apr: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave
 * ~17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
 * 7-11: Jaime

May

 * ?: Tyler

📚 Book club/🍱 Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 8 Nov - wmf.8 - NO TRAIN (Veteran's day Nov 11)
 * 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
 * 22 Nov - wmf.10 - NO TRAIN
 * 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
 * 27 Dec - wmf.15 - NO TRAIN
 * 3 Jan - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 10 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 17 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
 * 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 7 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
 * 14 Feb - wmf.22 - Antoine + Jeena
 * 21 Feb - wmf.23 - Dan + Antoine (President's day on Monday)
 * 28 Feb - wmf.24 - Brennen + Dan


 * 6 Mar - wmf.25 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 13 Mar - wmf.26 - Jeena + Ahmon (US enters Daylight Saving Time)
 * 20 Mar - wmf.27 - Antoine + Jeena
 * 27 Mar - wmf.28 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine (Europe enters Daylight Saving Time)

🎪 Demo day
Thcipriani - Demos emojipedia (I don't actually have anything) dduvall - building blubber images directly with `docker build` "# syntax=[image] brennen - brief rambling about GitLab access control, maybe, not really a demo Jeena - checking relation chains in scap backport

🚂🧪 Trainsperiments
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5811/