Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020603

NEW RULE: Write your standups in pentameter.

= 2020-06-03 =

Thcipriani: I'm attending a budget meeting today because I find budgets fascinating -- Lars will run the meeting today!

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs


 * 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs

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


 * 1 Jun - wmf.35 - James + Jeena
 * 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Train branch cut time is changing:
 * Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday..
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - T253022
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - T253023
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - T253023
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - T254173

Callouts

 * Release Engineering
 * [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
 * "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
 * Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Incoming/Needs attention

 * REMINDER: File your wellness benefits by June 15th: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Wellness_Program
 * See also related office hours in staff calendar


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester_(WMF)/MW-in-Containers_thoughts
 * Please review for pipeline meeting on 2020-06-10
 * Tyler: Is this a meeting I (James) should be in? Happy to skip if not; happy to present if so.


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
 * Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!


 * Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Thcipriani: Please update as you have time -- should be quick, get it out of the way :)

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Add any recommendations

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition

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


 * Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
 * Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
 * MediaWiki branch cuts are going to be fully automated, at last.

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Puppet cleanup!
 * Worst thing
 * time is hard

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * America.
 * America.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Flying to London next week.
 * Worst thing
 * Flying to London next week.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 25 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Found a place we like (now waiting to hear if we get it) (didn't get it)
 * Worst thing
 * The United States of America, with exceptions

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: -40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * https://filipin.eu/half-marathon-may-2020
 * Worst thing

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn