Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020701

= 2020-07-01 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
 * 6-10 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time
 * 6-8 July: Ahmon out
 * 13ish or 20th ish thcipriani out for a bit
 * July 11th - 26th: Antoine out


 * 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs


 * 7 Sep (Labor 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


 * 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 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 + Antoine + Ahmon?

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:
 * Product Infrastructure - to review codehealth pipeline for push notifications https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/services/push-notifications/+/604830
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - T254175
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - T254176
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - T256668
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - T256668

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

 * ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th! Welcome Ahmon Dancy!
 * I asked Ahmon to prepare a "user manual" by way of introduction focused around answering these questions:
 * Times/hours I like to work
 * 1400-2300UTC
 * Conditions I like to work in (quiet, collaborative, outside, etc)
 * Best ways to communicate with me (IRC, video call, asynchronous)
 * IRC/Slack and email
 * How I like to receive feedback (written, face-to-face, quarterly, I don’t, whatever)
 * What I’m looking forward to working here


 * Željko needs help from Mukunda:
 * Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255761
 * Create QTE Phabricator blog https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245251
 * Done!

Individual Tuning Sessions
Get started writing:https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

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
 * Scheduled the first Lunch and learn 2020-07-06 ~Advanced Phab Usage
 * ✅ Željko: do you mind opening it up for engprod? thcipriani: I can add folks from engprod

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 fully automated, at last!!!!
 * TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
 * Interactive logspam-watch
 * Gerrit 3.2.2

(July, don't copy-paste to June)

 * CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).

Q1 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
 * Due July 10th
 * Thcipriani to add top-level

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=DS.IkJV3YwZL

Antoine

 * Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * GIT PROTOCOL VERSION TWO OH MY GOD BBQ!!!11!!11!1
 * Please review/amend the draft blog about it https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/199/
 * If you push to a topic use: refs/for/master%topic=something
 * refs/for/master/something has been deprecated in Gerrit 2.16 and dropped in 3.2. So we never had warning issued to client
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/git-protocol-v2/
 * Next thing
 * Welcome Ahmon :]

What's on your workboard

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

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week
 * (not COVID per se, but I'm taking some PTO Mon 6th - Fri 10th)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Hey we have a GitLab decision...
 * Worst thing
 * ...hey we have a GitLab decision, yelling commences.
 * Uncomfortably proximate electrostatic discharge

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 (but…)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * New team. New, fun challenges. Just ran `git init`!
 * Worst thing
 * Leaving RelEng. Old, fun challenges are still there.

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week
 * (Sick Fri)

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: XX hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

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
 * Actual best thing: had a fun/fruitful brainstorm with Brennen yesterday with awesome results TBA
 * Less nebulous: finally got cloud-init working correctly
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/train-dev/+/607395
 * Worst thing
 * Wasted a lot of time debugging cloud-init without making much progress because I had the config in the wrong file.

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
 * We have no open positions!
 * Gerrit upgrade went well https://www.gerritcodereview.com/kudos.html
 * Cochinita Pibil https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/05/cochinita-pibil-yucatan-barbecue-mexican-smoked-pork-recipe.html
 * Worst thing
 * So many things due at the end of the quarter/fiscal

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: 39,999999999 hours/week
 * Antoine nitpick: strictly that or are you intending to represent an infinite serie of 9. In this case a shorthand is 40

Last week

 * Best thing
 * the first month of gsoc intership has ended, two more months 👩‍💻👨‍💻
 * Worst thing
 * I should have been on vacation this week, thanks covid 😷

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