Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-09-14

= 2021-09-14 =

✨Values✨

 * Developer focused
 * Freedom and open source
 * Integrity
 * Teamwork and collaboration
 * Quality

😶 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
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

September

 * Somewhere vaguely around US Labor Day weekend: Brennen camping
 * 3 Sept: Day out in the morning.
 * 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Services - Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Traffic - Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
 * 14 Sept: DC Switchover: MediaWiki - Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
 * 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻
 * 15 Sept (afternoon): Tyler
 * 17 Sept: Tyler

October

 * 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day  (US Staff with reqs)

November

 * 2 Nov: Election day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 11 Nov: Veterans day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 25-26 Nov: Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)

December

 * 24-31 December: End of Year Holiday (US Staff with reqs)

📚 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

🌠 The More You RelEng

 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know

https://time.releng.team -> https://timerelengteam.toolforge.org/🌠
 * 🌠 https://phab.releng.team -> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team/

🔥🚂 Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/


 * 7 Jun - wmf.9 - Jeena + Mukunda
 * 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
 * 21 Jun - wmf.11 - Dan + Jeena
 * 28 Jun - wmf.12 - Brennen + Dan
 * 5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
 * 12 Jul - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 19 Jul - wmf.15 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 26 Jul - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 2 Aug - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 9 Aug - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
 * 16 Aug - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 23 Aug - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 30 Aug - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Ahmon
 * 6 Sep - wmf.22 - YAK 2 The Future
 * 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover Antoine + Mukunda


 * 20 Sep - wmf.1 - Dan + Antoine
 * 27 Sep - wmf.2 - Jeena + Dan
 * 4 Oct - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 11 Oct - wmf.4 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 8 Nov - wmf.8 -
 * 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
 * 22 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
 * 27 Dec - wmf.17 - NO TRAIN
 * 3 Jan - wmf.18 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 10 Jan - wmf.19 - Jeena + Dan

📤 Train update email

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
 * https://wheelofnames.com/#


 * 2021-05-17: Jeena
 * 2021-05-24: Brennen
 * 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
 * 2021-07-14: Dan <3
 * 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
 * 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :( </3
 * ✅ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NRXMF6GLQPFCBCC53D74K4YQONBBCYS3/
 * 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3
 * 2021-08-27/30: Mukunda <3
 * 2021-09- 17/20: Ahmon <3
 * 2021-09-24/27: Brennen <3

TEAM VISION RETURNETH: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12doOQaoZIYsIhozCOyDgLg6PQAae5ZhFf_WJA6Uy9O4/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287

Ahmon

 * Updates:
 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Blocking:
 * Blocking:

Antoine

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train this week
 * Some Gerrit task
 * Archiva: check with andrew otto
 * Some Gerrit task
 * Archiva: check with andrew otto

Brennen

 * Blocked by:
 * Upstream release of GitLab 14.3 for configuring session duration in a non-hacky way
 * Blocking:
 * Non WMF/WMDE/NDA users who would like to sign up for GitLab
 * Updates:
 * Organized GitLab workboard by some rough categories: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gitlab/
 * Progress on GitLab usernames: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/gitlab-ansible/+/714382
 * Jelto's moving some GitLab stuff to Puppet

Dan

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Met with Daniel Kinzler and Ahmon re: mediawiki configuration refactoring
 * Going to start implementing next scap k8s deploy compat stuff, `scap backport [change_url]`
 * Did some mind mapping around what to do about our image build toolchain and the GitLab migration. TL;DR let's do a sprint to see if Cloud Native Buildpacks will work for us!
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291017
 * Let's schedule a sprint (maybe week of Oct 4?)
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291017
 * Let's schedule a sprint (maybe week of Oct 4?)

Jeena

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Planned work for next two weeks
 * Add k8s to train env: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287993 (In review)
 * Preview Env Workflow: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283893 (In progress)
 * Automate release of mw-cli: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290335 (Addshore did this :) )
 * PET expedition
 * interviews
 * Gitlab sprint starting today
 * interviews
 * Gitlab sprint starting today

Mukunda

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Updates:
 * Updates:

Tyler

 * Blocked by:
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * Blocking:
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * Updates:
 * 🤝 Hiring updates
 * Hiring task: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuFAyfCnYRzpTmgaBgCjOcweWt76FDw1V9tlYLsGgYE/edit#
 * Interview panel: Ahmon, Jeena, David Caro
 * Stats:
 * 432 477 571 applications
 * 116 16 0 left to review
 * 6 4 0 recruiter screen
 * 8 4 1 in hiring manager screen (2/5 so far, more tomorrow and Monday)
 * 1 getting task
 * 2 final round


 * ✅ TODOs
 * ✅ Set up Yak kickoff meeting FRIDAY!!!
 * ✅ Meeting with Temi, new PM
 * Training requests:
 * Editing, Comm Tech, Product analytics
 * ❌ GKE Budget
 * Wolfgang is setting us up, I guess
 * ✅ Résumé review (Goal Candidates == 0)
 * ✅ Talk more with Miriam about change failure: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289567
 * ❌ Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
 * ❌ More shared team vision work for ~Sept
 * ❌ Add always empty review queue to dashboard