Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200318

= 2020-03-18 =

Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * How to do it


 * 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)


 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)


 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
 * 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
 * 24 April (Not-Easter): (US?) Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
 * 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
 * 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
 * time, details, etc TBD
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (almost certainly not))

Train

 * Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates


 * 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
 * 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
 * 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
 * 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
 * 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
 * 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
 * 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Brennen + Antoine


 * 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 27 Apr - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 4 May - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 11 May - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 18 May - wmf.6 - Dan + James

Status

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now.

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone chiming in on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245826
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - T233871
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - T233872
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - T233873

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Add new suggestions ^
 * nobody seems to have made a notes page for last time
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/What_nobody_tells_you_about_documentation

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Add as you have them!


 * scap has its first integration test

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
 * Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
 * By end of the month more refined Key Results
 * C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week

Q4 Planning

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

Standup!

 * Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

 * Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
 * Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
 * Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
 * "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Thinking about the train was better than thinking about the world.
 * Also Slack.
 * Also Slack.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Someone dressed in full hazmat riding a unicycle while dribbling a basketball. And cozy loafers.
 * Worst thing
 * Pandemic curves.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * My health and that of those about whom I care.
 * Worst thing
 * Being cooped up.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I eagerly await the arrival of massaging foot bath
 * Worst thing
 * social isolation nooooooo
 * slack noooooo
 * all the food is gone nooooo
 * noooooooooo http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ :D

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Got some thinking done about acceptance criteria for automating security patches application for train and it doesn't seem hopeless
 * Worst thing
 * Decrees from above

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Nearly quit smoking cigs, still vaping but it's an improvement
 * Worst thing
 * ugh

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * The entire family at home. All the time. THE ENTIRE FAMILY. ALL THE TIME.
 * Worst thing
 * Half-marathon (21 km) this Sunday is cancelled. I've been training for it for months. So, I'm running it alone. Like a crazy person I am.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn