Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200219

= 2020-02-19 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
 * any news? train in mid-March?


 * 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)


 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * 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) - TBD
 * 15 May: Jeena
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)

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 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
 * 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

SoS

 * Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Incoming/Needs attention

 * [James] T245054 Remote call on integration-agent-docker-1001 failed
 * Repooling thcipriani
 * if not...to the task
 * [James] T238224 Landing the Docker in core patch — I think we'll need a formal-ish release announcement when we merge it.
 * James to draft initial announcement.
 * Brennen to assert that it's working.
 * [James] Eurgh Parsoid deploy strategy. Need meeting.
 * James to make meeting. Tyler/Mukunda/James, Parsing, ?SRE Service Ops.

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/engprod-bookclub-2019-02-25

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition

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


 * Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests.
 * Scap release 1.13.0.

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again

ACTIONS:
 * Everyone tell Tyler in 1:1s what they need from other teams and budgets
 * Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning

Leveling

 * Next 1:1s -- not this week/today
 * New framework: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Level_Framework

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

 * Blocked by:
 * Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
 * Performance: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245570
 * Blocking:
 * SRE on on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - T233867
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - T233868
 * (Performance) Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245570
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - T233869

Callouts

 * SRE blocked by RelEng on T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - T233867
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - T233868
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - T233869

Train status and happenings

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

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

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
 * I'm learning about synthesizers, kind of.
 * Free software advocacy group
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_software_advocacy_group
 * Worst thing
 * My cat is sick.

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
 * Bernie Sanders 2020 rally in Richmond, CA this past Monday 👴🏻🌹🎉
 * Worst thing
 * US primary election anxiety

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Working with Security and upstream on stylelint vulns was much more productive than anticipated.
 * Worst thing
 * Parsoid deploy strategy concerns.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Tagged scap release, after fixing a "scap version" bug
 * https://purrli.com/ (thcipriani: this is amazing.)
 * Worst thing
 * It took way too much effort to get the scap release tagged (hopefully easier next time)

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worked with Brennen on some phabricator search code
 * Worst thing
 * Too many tasks on the workboard

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Free_software_advocacy_group
 * Worst thing
 * Planning, planning, sooo much

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finished level 1 on Duolingo for Portugese 🇵🇹😅(I can ask for water. That's pretty much all I know.)
 * Worst thing
 * Lost in ERFs and OKRs

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