Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020408

= 2020-04-08 =

IT'S OK TO NOT BE PRODUCTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
 * https://people.wikimedia.org/~thcipriani/advice.html

Vacations/Important dates

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


 * 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)


 * 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
 * Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
 * 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
 * 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs


 * 1 May (May Day): Lars
 * 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
 * 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
 * 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
 * 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
 * time, details, etc TBD
 * 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
 * 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
 * 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (waiting to cancel the reservation until AirBnB extends its covid policy))

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


 * 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena


 * 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
 * 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
 * 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
 * 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
 * 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
 * 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
 * 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
 * 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
 * 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
 * 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
 * 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
 * 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
 * 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

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:
 * Web team: Portals gulp4 migration https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247996
 * Blocking:
 * Updates:
 * [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
 * Train Health
 * Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.26 - T247773
 * This week: 1.35.0-wmf.27 - T247774
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - T247775
 * Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.28 - T247775

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

Incoming/Needs attention

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249565 wb_items_per_site table drop follow-up
 * Beta Cluster DB update broken by UBN-follow-ups to change DB Updater: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249732
 * Discussion about Re-define mysql GRANTs for wikiadmin (RelEng concerns?) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249683

Book club

 * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
 * Date Soon™

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition

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



Q4 Planning

 * https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

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/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Found the root cause for the CI jobs 25-45% slow down in October: seccomp. A security system to filter allowed syscalls, ends up it has a VERY noticeable overhead. Fix: docker run --security-opt seccomp=unconfined  # T236675
 * contint2001 being reimaged to Buster. Will fight puppet/scap to have Zuul deployed via scap3.
 * Worst thing
 * Haven't started on Betterworks OKRs goals thing. Will look at Mukunda ones which looks nicely formatted.

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Pairing sessions.
 * Worst thing
 * RIP John Prine

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * I made a magic tea bot for discord. It tells you which tea to drink :D
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Worst thing
 * Worst thing

What's on your workboard

 * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Phabricator real-time updates nearly fixed after ~6 months. 🎉 <3
 * Worst thing
 * Real time updates still not quite fixed? (T238593)

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Played bar trivia over twitch last night
 * Worst thing
 * Feeling that everything in on pause :(

What's on your workboard

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

Last week

 * Best thing
 * Frontend web performance training
 * Worst thing
 * Easter without wider family

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