Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201104

= 2020-11-04 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs


 * 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
 * 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
 * 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone
 * 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs, and also Lars


 * 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
 * 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
 * 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out

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 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
 * 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Mukunda
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
 * 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
 * 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
 * 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181


 * 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * Wednesday, Thursday, Monday


 * 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
 * extra holiday? affects train? Yes :(
 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
 * 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
 * 21 Dec - ???
 * 28 Dec - No Train
 * 4 Jan - wmf.25

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
 * 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: No Train
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.16 - T263182
 * Wed, 04 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group0
 * Thu, 05 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group1
 * Mon, 09 Nov 2020 noon PST: 1.36.0-wmf.16 Group2
 * Next week: No Train
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
 * Next week: No Train
 * Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions

Incoming/Needs attention

 * Reply to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260401


 * Open Enrollment Reminder: If you need to make changes or enroll in a pre-tax account, open enrollment will take place from Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 20.

organization. For the upcoming KubeCon NA 2020 event (2020-11-17 through 2020-11-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member
 * https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * Next L&L cancelled for offsite
 * Might just start picking papers for Book Club. These have all been on my list a while:
 * https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf
 * https://azaidman.github.io/publications/gousiosICSE2015.pdf
 * https://people.csail.mit.edu/hunkim/images/3/37/Papers_kim_2007_bugcache.pdf
 * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MSR-2015-Source-Code-Ownership-IEEE_camera-ready.pdf
 * https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P125.pdf

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Oct '20 edition

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


 * Deployed: Phabricator project metrics reporting features
 * Example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/reports/4104/

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '20 edition

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



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/view/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Last week

 * Working with WMCS to get a hypervisor with nested VM support. Need to contact Andrew Bogott to ask some questions.  +1!
 * mw-on-k8s: learning, thinking, experimenting.
 * scap sync* --force work (Guiseppe has merged some related commits)


 * Best thing
 * Virtual offsite, hacking and games.
 * Worst thing
 * US politics

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Finally found the CI Docker slowness: WMCS moved instances to Ceph and have disk IO throttling applied for iops / bytes/s ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266777 )
 * Do subscribe to low traffic WMCS announce list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud-announce
 * Among Us


 * Worst thing
 * Wasted two weeks figuring out the slowness
 * confinment again!

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * [screaming into void]
 * [screaming into void]

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Brisket success and Git core contribution (not to be confused with the git+brisket subprotocol)
 * there's a brisket subprotocol?
 * Worst thing
 * US 2020 election dread

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Accidental sofa
 * Worst thing
 * US elections and the future of everything
 * Entirely quite there today, I am not

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Worst thing
 * Nothing really
 * Best thing
 * Enjoyed the team offsite.
 * Other
 * Sat in on multiple meetings with the fundraising team. Phabricator consulations are going well.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Offsite last week was great
 * Worst thing
 * Election
 * Time off makes for a stressful time on

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * 5-day-weekend 🏖
 * 9 applications for 1 open Outreachy internship 🎓
 * Finally some progress with Docker 📦
 * +1 for great offsite 🎮
 * Worst thing
 * son broke little finger playing basketball on last day of the vacation 🏀

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/
 * Should I still come to this meeting? 🤷‍♂️

What's on no-one's workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn