Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020617

= 2020-06-17 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
 * 22 June to 3 July: Lars is away (moving house; Telegram reaches, in emergencies)


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
 * Early July: Brennen likely traveling home for a bit


 * 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs

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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen


 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars

Status

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


 * Train has reached its terminus. The next train will start on Tuesday from the same platform.

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:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - T254175
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - T254175

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!
 * Onboarding doc updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253350
 * Point them at Telegram group? +1 Didn't we deprecate that? Still used, at least once a week.
 * All: Please tag some things with "Good first task" for them https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/169/


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
 * Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!


 * Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Jeena and Antoine, please update ^


 * Train blocker risky change email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-risky-change-email
 * LGTM. +1


 * Dan's CI metrics died when people1001 was replaced by people1002, as the crontab isn't puppetised. Oops.
 * Move to doc1001, maybe?
 * File a task please - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255701

James we need your wit and expertise May James have a long future!
 * Future of James.
 * Don't leave us James.

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * Scheduled the first Lunch and learn 2020-07-06 ~Advanced Phab Usage

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition

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


 * Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
 * Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
 * MediaWiki branch cuts are fully automated, at last!!!!
 * TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
 * Interactive logspam-watch

Q1 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
 * If we've had 1:1s this week, we've talked about it
 * Get draft key results/sub objectives in the sheet this week
 * Ratified at team meeting next week

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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
 * "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage!

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Reviews, reviews, reviews
 * Worst thing
 * James moving!

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Responses to Tyler's mail reaching out to other orgs re: GitLab CE
 * Worst thing
 * James. Well, not James specifically.  Future absence of James.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Lockdown in London is lockdown in *London*.
 * Worst thing
 * Lockdown in London is *lockdown* in London.
 * New gerrit shows a calendar icon rather than the status, so no emoji fun. :-(

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Our baby pony Neptune is so cute and fun to watch running around
 * Worst thing
 * Bye James

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Good progress on moving house
 * Worst thing
 * I'm moving house

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Found good screencasting software: https://obsproject.com/
 * Worst thing
 * Running operations/puppet outside of production is fraught

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I'm at the team meeting
 * Worst thing
 * https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/547-Pratt-St-Longmont-CO-80501/13202518_zpid/
 * James :'(

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: lizard hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * not running for two weeks
 * Worst thing
 * not running for two weeks
 * James 👋😢

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn