Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-02-08

= 2023-02-08 =


 * Last time

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * Jan '22 edition


 * Folks clamoring to use pipeline
 * Dan & Ahmon jumping in to help devs
 * Chad moved!
 * Instance-wide runners!
 * First non-us/non-ci repo deployed via GitLab Pipeline: https://docker-registry.wikimedia.org/repos/data-engineering/mediawiki-event-enrichment/tags/
 * No more repos on diffusion!
 * Kokkuri's python now!


 * Buildkit upstream patch to make client connections more robust in case of loss
 * Smooth wmf.22 train
 * docker-pkg build --list \o/

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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


 * Some moby/buildkit stuff:
 * resolver: Isolate auth token cache per session
 * client: Ensure active/healthy connection prior to solve
 * Filter containers by regex in docker-autocompose

😶 Let's keep this empty

 * +1'd gerrit changes
 * Gerrit access requests

📅 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

February 2023

 * 9-10 Feb: Brennen (going to a hot spring, actual time off tbd pending whether I can get ahold of a starlink)
 * 13–17 Feb: Antoine
 * 20 Mon Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day

March 2023

 * 17 Fri: Tyler (guessing, running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
 * 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
 * 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering

🔥🚂 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

Harbor

 * Per: Draft: Install Harbor on the gitlab runner k8s cluster
 * https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-cloud-runner/-/merge_requests/123
 * More discussion on that MR

Discussion

 * Reservations about replacing reggie right now since we're close to opening it up
 * Using reggie for a small use-case and have not have problems
 * Harbor provides a lot more than that
 * Are these reservations shared among the team?
 * Goal with the patch was not to replace reggie *yet*
 * Goal: get it installed in a way that was repeatable and the rest of the team could participate and keep it in an experimental state and continue iterating
 * Maintenance: keep a couple extra containers on a k8s we're already running
 * Spending time to replace something that exists vs. wrapping up other things
 * Reggie does what we need vs. doing something experimental PM perspective: focus on our goal for the quarter
 * RESOLUTION: Keep it in our toolbox and postpone working on it for now

Sprint planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1263ADOIF-PH-9stn9Nzev1S8Sq6TM6LSJFW6BJGdTpI/edit#
 * some disucssion needed (I think) about:
 * scaling buildkitd and some buildkitd discoveries we made just recently