Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020624

= 2020-06-24 =

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 22 June to 3 July: Lars is away (moving house; Telegram reaches, in emergencies)
 * June 26th - Mukunda taking friday off


 * 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
 * 6-9 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time.
 * 10 July: Brennen 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:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - T254174
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - T254175
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - T254176
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - T254175
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - T254176

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
 * Gerrit upgrade on Saturday, 27th of June 
 * "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!
 * Onboarding doc updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253350
 * Point them at Telegram group? +1 Didn't we deprecate that? Still used, at least once a week.
 * All: Please tag some things with "Good first task" for them https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/169/


 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
 * All: Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!


 * Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
 * Antoine, please update ^


 * Željko needs help (from Mukunda) on T255761 Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository
 * TODO: Mukunda to look at T255761

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

Q1 Planning

 * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
 * If we've had 1:1s this week, we've talked about it
 * Get draft key results/sub objectives in the sheet this week
 * Ratified at team meeting next week

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

Antoine

 * 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=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * going to travel soon
 * Worst thing
 * localisation (l10n) / LiquidThreads

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * My quarantine is over, and now I'm back to just regular COVID lockdown.
 * Worst thing
 * The heat isn't fun.

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

 * Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (Holiday Fri)

Last week

 * Best thing
 * My sunflowers are sprouting
 * Worst thing
 * The slugs eat them :(

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
 * Will need review on this after I make one update https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/cli/+/598101

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
 * Progress on puppet in vm
 * Worst thing
 * Deployment server is still running stretch
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/tools/train-dev/+/607395/

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

 * Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * GitLab progress this week
 * Worst thing
 * Code deploy office hours

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

 * Current COVID19 status: -40 hours/week

Last week

 * Best thing
 * long weekend
 * Worst thing
 * covid picking up in Croatia again

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