Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-11-15

= 2023-11-15 =


 * Last time

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Nov 23


 * PoC for zuul delegating to GitLab pipelines works better than expected, surfacing in the UI works better than expected
 * More catalyst changes: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/qte/catalyst
 * Diffusion repository exploration is done!
 * Leaked pod cleanup script—pods leak when restarts or updates of runners happen
 * Jaime's first Catalyst patch! Spins up k3s + MediaWiki + Vector
 * Less noisy docpub alerts
 * Cindy's patches to Catalyst
 * Zuul's gating functions alongside GitLab-ci.yml files (no gitlab clone, instead rsync from executor)
 * Jeena helm chart templating
 * Pod anti-afinity for buildkitd pods + increased buildkit volume size: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/291 and https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/295
 * Script to modify persistant volume claims: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/294
 * Deployed gitlab-pod-cleaner: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/297
 * Zuul upstream commit is moving along: https://review.opendev.org/c/zuul/zuul/+/899425
 * Catalyst builds and exposes
 * Phabricator deploy yesterday
 * Zuul running in dev-tools! Blubberized upstream docker files! https://zuul-devtools.wmcloud.org/tenants
 * 0 open patches in differential
 * puppet catalog compiler better integration with Gerrit: https://people.wikimedia.org/~hashar/gerrit-pcc.webm

Team Discussions

 * Nov 15 TODAY: is the Last day for US Open Enrollment for 2024, see Namely to make changes


 * Nov 17 Friday: Review documentation proposal for GitLab https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYSf1upsqwlU3pLdqeqsWWL-jWb8xgY_gEkxdara3kI/edit
 * Dan, Ahmon, Brennen, anyone else interested
 * Are these proposals (a) Reasonable? Do we have time to do the work requested? (b) Match your intuition about what needs to be done?


 * Releng-secrets repo
 * Last two things: docker-registry pass :\ + wtf ssh key?
 * Nov 30 (two weeks): Deadline is closing on Dec 1–Jan 15th vacations in namely


 * Sandeep starts on the 27th!
 * Onboarding tasks:
 * Very scap-heavy: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5631/
 * Missing:
 * Phabricator
 * See 23min videos on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help ;)
 * GitLab (including blubber, kokkuri, deployment pipeline)
 * Zuul
 * CI config
 * What about:
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335156 Blubber seems confused when copying to a folder that is a symlink

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

Code review

 * +1'd gerrit changes
 * (filed as: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344361 )

Gerrit Access requests

 * Gerrit access requests

Private repo requests
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/E7t2_WXX01bB/#R

Gerrit repo requests

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/New_repositories/Requests

GitLab Access requests

 * Account Approval
 * Accounts and auth
 * GitLab access requests
 * Look up username in LDAP ( https://ldap.toolforge.org/ )
 * Look for contributions on Gerrit or Phab

High priority tasks

 * UBN! + High: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/PkxR1BXrbbU4/#R
 * New in inbox: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7vRDrcVnt8OI/#R

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

Nov 2023

 * 1 Nov: Antoine, Jaime (all-saints holiday)
 * 10 Nov: US Staff with reqs


 * 16 Nov: Jaime
 * 17 Nov: Andre (public CZ holiday)
 * 20 Nov and probably more days: Andre (too many vacation days left)
 * 20–24: dancy taking thanksgiving week off
 * 20-24: Dan out for US Thanksgiving as well
 * 22 Nov: Brennen (Thanksgiving travel)
 * 23, 24: US holiday staff with reqs
 * more random Mondays or Fridays: andre

Dec 2023

 * Dec11-15; Dec22: Andre
 * 22 Dec: Brennen
 * 25–Jan 1: End of year global holiday
 * 11 Dec - 14 Jan: Jaime (Vacation + Home move)

Future

 * 15Jan - 15Mar: Andre
 * 31 Jan - 2 Feb: Brennen

🔥🚂 Train

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


 * 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
 * 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
 * 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
 * 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
 * 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
 * 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
 * 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
 * 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
 * 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
 * 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
 * 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad Dan + Ahmon
 * 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
 * 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
 * 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad
 * 24 Apr – wmf.6 – Jeena + Jaime
 * 1 May – wmf.7 – Brennen + Jeena
 * 8 May – wmf.8 – Antoine + Brennen (Ahmon out + Antoine Out 8th)
 * 15 May – wmf.9 – Ahmon + Antoine (Dan out + Chad out)
 * 22 May – wmf.10 – Chad + Ahmon (Dan out + Jeena out 26th)
 * 29 May – wmf.11 – Dan + Chad (Memorial Day 29th)
 * 5 Jun – wmf.12 – Jeena + Dan (Brennen out, Jaime out)
 * 12 Jun – wmf.13 – Jaime + Jeena
 * 19 Jun – wmf.15 – Cancelled for offsite
 * 26 Jun – wmf.16 – Brennen + Jaime (Jeena out)
 * 3 Jul – wmf.17 – Antoine + Brennen (3rd + 4th holidays)
 * 10 Jul – wmf.18 – Dan + Antoine (Ahmon out)
 * 17 Jul – wmf.19 – Ahmon+Dan (Brennen out Friday)
 * 24 Jul – wmf.20 – Jaime+Ahmon
 * 31 Jul – wmf.21 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out) (Ahmon volunteered)
 * 7 Aug – wmf. 22 – No train
 * 14 Aug - wmf.23 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out)
 * 21 Aug - wmf.24 – Dan(brennen out, Jeena out, Antoine out)
 * 28 Aug – wmf.25 – Jeena+Dan
 * 04 Sep – wmf.26 – Antoine+Jeena
 * 11 Sep – wmf.27 – Jaime+Antoine+Andre as lurker!
 * 18 Sep – wmf.28 – Brennen+Jaime
 * Logspam-watch needs some attention
 * Every deploy is rebuilding l10n
 * 25 Sep – 1.42.0-wmf.1 – Dan + Brennen
 * 2 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.2 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime Out)
 * 9 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.3 – Antoine + Jeena (Jaime Out)
 * Vector skin issue, backport this morning!
 * 16 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.4 – Brennen + Antoine
 * 23 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.5 – Ahmon + Brennen
 * 30 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.3 – Dan + Ahmon
 * 06 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.4 – Jaime + Dan
 * 13 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.5 – Jeena + Jaime
 * 20 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.6 – No Train
 * 27 Nov – 1.42.0-wmf.7 – Antoine + Jeena
 * 3 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.8 – No Train offsite
 * 11 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.9 – Brennen + Antoine (Jaime out)
 * 18 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.10 – Ahmon + Brennen (Jaime out)
 * 25 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.11 – No Train
 * 1 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.12 – Dan + Ahmon (Jaime out)
 * 8 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.13 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
 * 15 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.14 – Jaime + Jeena