Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-05

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 6 Jan: All Tech monthly meeting
 * 7 Jan: All Staff monthly meeting
 * 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
 * 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
 * 20 Jan: Dan Out


 * 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs


 * 29 Mar: US staff with reqs


 * 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
 * 22 Apr: Earth Day -- 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


 * 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
 * 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
 * 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
 * 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
 * 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
 * 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train


 * 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars Antoine
 * NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
 * 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
 * 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
 * 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
 * 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
 * 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
 * 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)

Status

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

SoS

 * 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
 * 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
 * 2020-11-25: Brennen
 * 2020-12-02: Ahmon
 * 2020-12-09: Tyler
 * 2020-12-16: Antoine
 * 2021-01-06: Tyler

Outgoing

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week year:  1.36.0-wmf.22 T267417
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 T267418
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419
 * This week: 1.36.0-wmf.25 T267418
 * Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.26 T267419

Incoming

 * Need an SRE like *right now*? https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klaxon
 * tl;dr: when your laptop is stolen (or similar), use this to shut down your shell access

Incoming/Needs attention

 * ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
 * 2020-01-11 -- 2020-01-15


 * Q3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#

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
 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Dec '20 edition

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


 * Scap 3.16.0 released and deployed
 * Dropped scap plugins from mw-config
 * unconditional restart on deploy for opcache corruption deployed
 * https://doc-stage.wmcloud.org/, staging area for doc.wikimedia.org. Next prod then update related docs.
 * Scap source formatted with Black now
 * Runnable runbook blog

Ahmon

 * Blocked by:
 * nada
 * Blocking:
 * nothing that I know of
 * Updates:
 * Packaging multiversion MW into containers
 * Best thing
 * Relaxing holiday
 * Worst thing
 * N/A

Antoine

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Found *cause* of memory leak in Gerrit
 * Lowering session expiry?
 * These are stored in the h2 db/cache
 * Possibly related to the losing sessions on restart
 * TLDR: do restart Gerrit every 4/5 weeks.
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

Brennen

 * Blocked by:
 * Nothin'
 * Blocking:
 * Somebody, probably - need to finish dig through Gerrit / phab mail
 * Updates:
 * Tried out GitLab helm chart on GKE yesterday: https://gitlab.lostsnail.com/
 * ...also on k3s, which didn't work for resource constraint reasons, but probably would
 * Best thing
 * So much time not computering
 * Worst thing
 * What was I doing again

Dan

 * Blocked by:
 * Nothing at the moment
 * Blocking:
 * Nothing that I know of
 * Updates:
 * No updates. Trying to recalibrate after the break.
 * Best thing
 * Lots of great time with the family and time to work on my workbench.
 * Worst thing

Jeena

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Train
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

Lars

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

Mukunda

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * Moving slowly after a long break.
 * Did some goofing off with kubernetes in 1:1 with Brennen yesterday. We mostly deployed gitlab to k3s but never got it 100% functional.
 * Best thing
 * Stayed mostly offline for two weeks, yay.
 * Worst thing
 * Not feeling terribly productive so far this year.
 * Worst thing
 * Not feeling terribly productive so far this year.

Tyler

 * Blocked by:
 * Blocking:
 * ITC Conversations
 * Updates:
 * Talking about GitLab setup with SRE/serviceops
 * https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thcipriani/Deployments/Patch_type_criteria
 * Thanks:
 * Work on Q3 planning
 * Accepting triage invite!
 * Accepting triage invite!