Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200812

= 2020-08-12 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
 * 21 August Mukunda day off
 * 31 August Lars day off
 * tbd: Brennen camping at some point


 * 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
 * 1 Sep: Lars day off
 * 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs


 * 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day

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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
 * 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
 * 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
 * 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
 * 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon


 * 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
 * Group2 on Wednesday US
 * 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
 * 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
 * 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
 * 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
 * 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
 * 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine

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
 * Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - T257971
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - T257972
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - T257973
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - T257972
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - T257973

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)
 * scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Incoming/Needs attention
The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member organization. For the upcoming KubeCon EU 2020 event (2020-08-17 through 2020-08-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets. This is the first ever virtual KubeCon, so I can't vouch for the value of the event, but past KubeCon events have been enjoyed by many Foundation Engineering staff who are interested in Kubernetes, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, and similar devops/SRE topics.

 
 * Conference information:
 * Registration:

Individual Tuning Sessions
<3

Book club/Lunch and Learn

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
 * 2020-08-17: Quibble with Antoine Musso

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition

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


 * Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
 * After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.

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

Ahmon

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Status: Working on train-dev with Lars. Cultural orientation meetings this week (overlapping with releng meetings)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Chocolate ice cream
 * Worst thing
 * Long test cycles

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Dishing out backlog of tasks. Otherwise train going fine


 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Relatively calm trains
 * Worst thing
 * Aluminum rain gutters

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

 * Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * We are house hunting.
 * Worst thing
 * We are house hunting in the SF Bay Area.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (sick)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Monitor works again
 * Worst thing
 * RIP fishy

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
 * Some reviews in my inbox waiting for me

Lars

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Train-dev development is making progress
 * Cat guest
 * Worst thing
 * My Scap tests started failing because I made a small change to the testing tool and it was too hard to debug (fixed now)
 * Cat guest

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
 * My tasks are not entirely up to date, but I try to not be overwhelmed by them

Mukunda

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Aphlict is really working now
 * Worst thing
 * I think our team has the dubious honor of longest, ugliest and maybe even most confusing phabricator tag:
 * Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (2020-07-01 to 2020-09-30 (Q1)))

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Tuning conversations: useful, I think!
 * Aphlict back!
 * Worst thing
 * Houses are so. much. work.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * 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