Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-12-14

= 2022-12-14 =

STANDUP!

Last meeting before end-of-year retro

🏆 Wins

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


 * Antoine replaced Docker with Podman
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gitlab/Phabricator_integration
 * Provision Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) for GitLab cloud runners https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323164
 * certmanager for DO k8s registry
 * MW-ok-k8s routing traffic Soon™ —our part works \o/ woo
 * Dan's GitLab CI presentation to tech-all!

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

December

 * 9 Dec: Brennen out ½ day


 * TBD: Brennen out a day or so somewhere in here
 * 19­–23 Dec: Antoine, Dan
 * 23 Dec: Christmas Eve (Observed in lieu) (US staff with reqs)
 * 24 Dec–31 Dec: Global end of year holiday
 * 23 Dec: Jaime
 * Exact days tbd: Chad is moving

January 2023

 * 2 Mon Jan: New Year's day observed
 * 16 Mon Jan: Martin Luther King Jr Day
 * 1-15 Jan: Jaime

February 2023

 * 20 Mon Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 22 Aug - wmf.26 - Antoine + Chad
 * 29 Aug - wmf.27 - Dan + Antoine (Brennen out)
 * 5 Sep - wmf. 28 - NOT Jaime ;) — Jeena + Dan (Brennen out 'til Tues)
 * 12 Sep - 1.40.0-wmf.1 – Ahmon + Jeena (Jaime, Brennen Out Wed)
 * 19 Sep - wmf.2 - Jaime + Ahmon
 * 26 Sep - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jaime
 * 3 Oct - wmf.4 - Chad + Brennen
 * 10 Oct - wmf. 5 - Dan + Chad (Monday holiday)
 * 17 Oct - wmf.6 - Antoine + Dan
 * 24 Oct - wmf.7 - Jaime + Antoine
 * 31 Oct - wmf.8 - Jeena + Jaime – Jaime out Monday
 * 7 Nov - No Train (Election Day Tues.; Veteran's Day Fri.)
 * 14 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 21 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving Thu–Fri)
 * 28 Nov - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 5 Dec - wmf. 13 - Chad + Ahmon
 * 12 Dec - wmf.14 - Antoine + Chad (#restbase-sunset may be scary)
 * 19 Dec - No Train


 * 26 Dec - No Train
 * 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 - Antoine + Chad

Team discussions

 * Offsite
 * A few folks have asked me about our next offsite
 * Target: Q4


 * Where? New travel manager, still tbd
 * You all filled out the survey, so Linh is figuring out the best week to do it
 * One thing we're still lacking from the old days: in-person time with SRE


 * Making GitLab runners live for all timeline --- after the break


 * Go to Dan's presentation! :D