Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-03-15

= 2023-03-15 =


 * Last time

🏆 Wins

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


 * New scap self-install in production
 * Learned too much about iptables
 * Moved gitlab-cloud-runner Helm stuff to Terraform :)


 * Thundering herd testing passed—k8s can handle 100 concurrent job
 * Phab release prepped
 * docker-gc is blubberized and kokkorized
 * found and deleted docker image based on obsolete debian version (stretch)
 * made terraform plan run before merge
 * Tentative optimism for CKA
 * Monte's having success using the phab api to build different views of tasks

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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


 * Some moby/buildkit stuff:

😶 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

March 2023

 * 13-15 Mon-Wed: Dan (building cabinets)
 * 16–21 Thu–Tue: Tyler (running https://www.madmooseevents.com/canyonlands-half-marathon on the 18th 😬)
 * 23 & 24 Thu–Fri: Jaime
 * 24 Fri: Jeena volunteering
 * 27 Mon: Brennen in NYC, unclear about working situation

April 2023
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa                    1 2 3  4  5  6  7  8    9 10 11 12 13 14 15   16 17 18 19 20 21 22   23 24 25 26 27 28 29   30
 * 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
 * (tentatively) 04/17 - 04/28 Antoine
 * 05/01 Antoine, labour day
 * 05/08 Antoine, WW2 armistice

🔥🚂 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


 * 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
 * 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
 * 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad + Ahmon

Team discussions

 * Offsite topics—tentatively May 5th https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#