Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20191106

= 2019-11-06 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * November 1 (All Saints' Day): Željko, Antoine holiday


 * November 8–10: WikiCon North America (James)
 * November 11 (Veterans' Day): US Staff
 * November 12–15: TechConf19
 * November 16–20: Offsite
 * November 21–30: Jeena
 * November 25–29: Dan
 * November 28–29 (Thanksgiving): US Staff


 * December 1–2: Jeena
 * December 6: Lars (Finnish Independence Day)
 * December 25–31 (Christmas): US Staff (+ everyone?)
 * December 25–26: Lars, Željko, Christmas


 * 1 January (New Year's Day): US Staff, Lars, Željko
 * 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): US Staff

Train

 * Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R


 * 14 Oct - wmf.2 - Jeena + Lars
 * 21 Oct - wmf.3 - Lars + Brennen
 * 28 Oct - wmf.4 - Brennen + Mukunda


 * 4 Nov - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 11 Nov - wmf.6 - No Train (Tech conf)
 * 18 Nov - wmf.7 - No Train (Off site)
 * 25 Nov - wmf.8 - Group0 on Tuesday Brennen + Mukunda (Thanksgiving)
 * 2 Dec - wmf.8 part 2 - Wednesday Group1 + Thursday Group2
 * 9 Dec - wmf.10 - TBD
 * 16 Dec - wmf.11 - TBD
 * 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
 * 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
 * 6 Jan - wmf.14 - TBD
 * 13 Jan - wmf.15 - TBD

SoS

 * Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Timespent spreadsheet

 * For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week


 * spreadsheet for week 44 (2019-10-28) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YS_2eUQWUOnygshMfxgGPu93GKGCO5t00yjUREQ5B-I/edit#gid=288431087


 * reminder: your time spent doesn't need to total to 100%

Clinic Duty Proposal

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Clinic_Duty

November Offsite/Summit

 * TechConf19: November 12–15
 * Offsite: November 16–20
 * Arrive the 15th
 * 16th is our fun day/outing
 * 17–20 are working days
 * 21st fly home
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EngProdTeam-Offsite-2019-11-planning

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * *link to form*

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - November '19 edition

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


 * branch.py for cutting the branch for train


 * logspam-watch for tailing logfiles

Incoming/Needs attention

 * New workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4360/ -- make sure your tasks look right

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.4 - T233852
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - T233853 - last train before two week break
 * Next week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * This week's train (1.35.0-wmf.5 - T233853) is the last train before two week break
 * v3 of architecture document for new continuous integration wants review and feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LarsWirzenius/NewCI

Train status and happenings

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

Grant Q&A
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly+Grant