Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Bookmarks

🔖 Bookmarks

This is a simple list of pages we on Release Engineering find ourselves constantly looking for.

Always useful

 * Office Contact List
 * Quarters – an explanation of the fiscal year, answers the question: what quarter is this?
 * Developers/Maintainers – who theoretically owns code?
 * Etherpad – lightweight shared public editor.
 * MediaWiki code search
 * Wikimedia LDAP browser

Deployments and the train

 * Deployment calendar
 * train-blockers – toolforge tool that links to the current train blocker task
 * Wikimedia MediaWiki versions - what versions of MediaWiki are deployed in production right now?
 * Core documentation for running the train

Status, logs, and monitoring

 * Server admin logs:
 * production SAL
 * releng SAL
 * Grafana – tons of production metrics
 * Logstash – error logs; you will spend a lot of time here
 * https://noc.wikimedia.org/ – current configuration
 * Zuul Status

Team tools

 * Weekly meeting notes
 * phab.releng.team – Team phab board
 * time.releng.team – Team timezone list
 * runbooks.releng.team — Procedural instructions maintenance and common team tasks