Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-08-17

= 2022-08-17 =

🏆 Wins

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


 * We don't specifically have any reason to think our GitLab instance has been owned, necessarily.
 * Small merges for mwpresync
 * GitLab runner config management changes merged!
 * Increased the team knowledge of scap3
 * Pending major update for GitLab
 * Scap-o-scap installed in beta! \o/
 * Aug '22 edition
 * Aug '22 edition


 * Train-blockers toolforge scrapes from phab \o/
 * Nagged GitLab into updating their FAQ: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363212#note_1066797431
 * Clare used scap backport for real
 * Phabricator (probably) deploys from scap 3
 * Beta exists still
 * Chad re-earning t-shirt
 * Upgraded Gerrit from 3.4.4 to 3.4.5

😶 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

August

 * Mon 8 Aug: Jeena
 * Tue 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
 * Mon 1 Aug–Tue 16 Aug: Antoine


 * Thu 4 Aug–Fri 19 Aug: Dan
 * Thu 18 Aug: Jeena
 * 27-31 Aug: Brennen (🔥)
 * 29Aug/2Sep: Antoine is present but kids are back to school

September

 * 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
 * 1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)
 * ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (⛺🪕)
 * 9-19 Sept: Jaime

October

 * 10 Oct: Indigenous Peoples' Day (Columbus Day)

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 2 May – wmf.10 – Antoine + Brennen
 * 9 May - wmf.11 – Skipping for GitLab-a-thon
 * 16 May - wmf.12 - Jaime + Antoine
 * 23 May - wmf.13 - Ahmon + Jaime (Antoine out)
 * 30 May - wmf.14 - Jeena + Ahmon
 * 6 Jun - wmf.15 - Dan + Jeena (Brennen out)
 * 13 Jun - wmf.16 - Brennen + Jeena (Dan out)
 * 20 Jun - wmf.17 - Antoine + Brennen (Jaime out)
 * 27 Jun - wmf.18 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 4 Jul - wmf.19 - Jaime + Dan
 * 11 Jul - wmf.20 - NO TRAIN
 * 18 Jul - wmf.21 - Jeena + Jaime
 * 25 Jul - wmf.22 - Brennen + Jeena (Antoine, Ahmon out)
 * 1 Aug - wmf.23 - Ahmon + Brennen (Antoine, Dan out starting Thurs)
 * 8 Aug - No Train (Antoine, Brennen, Dan out)


 * 15 Aug - wmf.25 - Chad + Ahmon (Dan out)
 * 22 Aug - wmf.26 - Antoine + Chad
 * 29 Aug - wmf.27 - Dan + Antoine
 * 5 Sep - wmf. 28 - Jaime + Dan

Bonus Level 🕹️

 * Our process AB C Es: Always. Be. Changing . Experimenting.
 * Experiments this round: Smaller gaps between sprints + death to yakbot

Finish phab server decommission

 * Owner: Daniel


 * As measured by:


 * Phabricator git-ssh is shut down, documentation is up-to-date, and an announcement has been sent
 * Puppet is running without errors on the new machine
 * We deploy Phabricator to the new machine
 * We schedule a maintenance window and all production traffic runs from the new host

Prepare scap for MW-on-k8s

 * Owner: Ahmon


 * As measured by:


 * Scap prep, scap backport and scap sync all use the same locking
 * php-fpm restart reports progress to deployers
 * MVP deploy container images via scap

Process from here: Temi Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6100/

Ask: by Monday
 * Look at the workboard
 * Claim tasks
 * Break down tasks
 * Add points to any task you claim

== Scap backport joke ideas: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/scap-backport-jokes