Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200304

= 2020-03-04 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
 * 19–23 March: James in DC
 * 30 March–3 April: James (NH)
 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)


 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
 * 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
 * For now, I would suggest to hold off on purchasing extra tickets for others to join you on the trip until we hear more from Travel.
 * 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 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 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

 * Code health metrics group asks what's Gerrit update schedule?
 * We're at 2.15. Is there a plan to upgrade to 2.16? I've found https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739
 * Is there plan to update to 3.0/3.1? https://www.gerritcodereview.com/releases-readme.html (I couldn't find a task in Phabricator.)
 * They need it for Gerrit inline comments from Sonarcloud. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217008

2020-02-26

 * QPlanning for Q4?
 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club/What_nobody_tells_you_about_documentation

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition

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



Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
 * Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
 * By end of the month more refined Key Results
 * C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week

Leveling

 * This week's 1:1s
 * New framework: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Level_Framework

Outgoing next week

 * Blocked by:
 * SRE ServiceOps: For the work to migrate wikimedia-portals to Docker (T238747), we need an official base image for serving Web pages, either the same as future-MW (T238774) or a simpler one
 * Blocking:
 * [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in T246833.
 * Updates:
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * Train Health
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - T233870
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - T233871

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: tag/MW-1.35-release
 * [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in T246833.

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
 * Learning Phabricator code stuffs
 * Worst thing
 * The ambient terror of existing in early 2020

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
 * Learning the words 'perne' and 'gyre', "perne in a gyre," poetry Sailing_to_Byzantium
 * Seeing Antoine's face!
 * Worst thing
 * Witnessing the full weight and violence of the American aristocracy in its response to any degree of change for the common good

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Antoine!
 * I'm not ill.
 * Worst thing
 * WFH.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Hi Antoine!
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * seeing hashar online again
 * Worst thing
 * train rollback

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * We (Brennen and I) have a working search highlighting patch for Phabricator ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1179 ), working really well.
 * Worst thing
 * It's a tie between Corona the Virus and Corona the Beer.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Antoine is back!
 * Worst thing
 * Super Tuesday

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Antoine! 🥖🍷🐌
 * Local testing meetup 🎤
 * Worst thing
 * Sick kids 😷
 * Taxes 💸

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