Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-08-18

= 2021-08-18 =

🏆 Wins

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
 * August '21 edition


 * Started dev-images to buster
 * Gerrit 3.3
 * Successful php_fpm_always_restart: true test (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266055)
 * GitLab soft launch
 * migrated mw-cli to gitlab, got docker-in-docker integration tests working (thanks addshore)
 * https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/cli/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
 * Finished dev-images to buster
 * Merged workboard metrics code!
 * Reviewed on GitLab
 * Gitlab code review experience ftw

✨Values✨
🧪Pop Quiz, hotshot!
 * Developer focused
 * Freedom and open source
 * Integrity
 * Teamwork and collaboration
 * Quality

Let's keep this empty

 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/label:Code-review%252B1+-label:Code-review-1+is:open+(parentproject:integration+OR+parentproject:releng+OR+parentproject:blubber-doc+OR+project:integration/pipelinelib+OR+project:blubber+OR+project:mediawiki/tools/release+OR+project:mediawiki/tools/scap)++-label:Verified%253C0+-is:wip+-is:ignored+-ownerin:%2522Release+Engineering%2522

📅 Vacations/Important dates

 * https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

August

 * 6 Aug: Brennen out a bit early for music
 * 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
 * 12-13 Aug: Jeena - 🐎 Neptune's first horse show :D 🐎
 * Go Neptune Go
 * Neptune had too much "Go"!


 * 9-20 Aug: Dan out for additional parental leave
 * 20 Aug: Brennen leaving a bit early to camp
 * August: Antoine

September

 * 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Services - Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
 * 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Traffic - Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
 * 14 Sept: DC Switchover: MediaWiki - Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
 * 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻

October

 * 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day  (US Staff with reqs)

📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🔥🚂Train

 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
 * https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/


 * 7 Jun - wmf.9 - Jeena + Mukunda
 * 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
 * 21 Jun - wmf.11 - Dan + Jeena
 * 28 Jun - wmf.12 - Brennen + Dan
 * 5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
 * 12 Jul - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 19 Jul - wmf.15 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 26 Jul - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 2 Aug - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
 * 9 Aug - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda


 * 16 Aug - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
 * 23 Aug - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 30 Aug - wmf.21 - …
 * 6 Sep - wmf.22 - …
 * 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover
 * 20 Sep - wmf.1 - …
 * 27 Sep - wmf.2 - …

📤 Train update email

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
 * https://wheelofnames.com/#


 * 2021-05-17: Jeena
 * 2021-05-24: Brennen
 * 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
 * 2021-07-14: Dan <3
 * 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
 * 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :(
 * ✅ https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/NRXMF6GLQPFCBCC53D74K4YQONBBCYS3/
 * 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3

Ahmon

 * Updates:
 * mediawiki-multiversion image testing
 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Blocking:

Antoine
out

Brennen

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train
 * Dev-images to Buster
 * merge-request upstream for GitLab upstream session timeouts (Yay!! +1)
 * Dev-images to Buster
 * merge-request upstream for GitLab upstream session timeouts (Yay!! +1)

Dan
Out

Jeena
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/682232 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283893  (In progress) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283892  (In progress) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287993
 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Planned work for 8/18-8/31
 * Cli Reviews: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/cli/-/merge_requests
 * DEVELOPERS.md update https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288456  (In progress)
 * Train Backup (In progress)
 * PET expedition
 * Train Backup (In progress)
 * PET expedition
 * Preview Env Workflow
 * Preview Env Requirements
 * Add k8s to train env
 * Mediawiki-Docker logging https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283416  (Done)
 * New Node Image https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267888

Mukunda

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * got workboard-metrics branch merged in gitlab
 * This was far more work than I anticipated.
 * worked on a train email generator using ddd. This is mostly finished. NEAT!
 * This was far more work than I anticipated.
 * worked on a train email generator using ddd. This is mostly finished. NEAT!

Tyler

 * Blocked by:
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * Blocking:
 * ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 * Updates:
 * 🤝 Hiring updates
 * Hiring task: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuFAyfCnYRzpTmgaBgCjOcweWt76FDw1V9tlYLsGgYE/edit#
 * Interview panel: Ahmon, Jeena, David Caro
 * Stats:
 * 359 applications
 * 54 left to review
 * 3 recruiter screen
 * 6 in hiring manager screen
 * shutting down application NEXT WEEK!!!


 * ✅ TODOs
 * ✅ put values on mw.org
 * Schedule hiring panel kick-off
 * Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
 * Meeting this week about "change failure rate" re:Annual Planning
 * Thinking about areas in need of project management
 * Code reviews
 * More shared team vision work for ~Sept
 * Purchase "Correct Joho Index Cards"
 * Add always empty review queue to dashboard