Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190812
2019-08-12[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- July 22–August 9 - Željko vacation
- July 27–August 18 - Antoine
- August 5–16 - Greg vacation
- August 7–22 - James off (inc. Wikimania)
- August 8-9 - Lars vacation
- August 12 - September 8 - Dan leave
- August 12 (Glorious Twelfth) - US Staff
- August 14–18 - Wikimania - Lars and Jean-Rene (and James in a personal capacity)
- August 15 - Željko, Assumption of Mary
- August 21-27: Lars vacation
- August 28 - September 4 - Brennen vacation
- September 2 (Labor Day) - US Staff
- September 26 - October 1 - JR Vacation
- September 27 - Mukunda
- October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day) - US Staff
- November 11 (Veterans' Day) - US Staff
- November 28–29 (Thanksgiving) - US Staff
- December 6 - Lars, Finnish Independence Day
- December 25–31 (Christmas) - US Staff
- December 25–26 - Lars, Christmas
- 2020 January 1 (New Year's Day) - US Staff, Lars
Rotating positions[edit]
Train[edit]
- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- June 24 - wmf.11 - Jeena (with Mukunda)
- July 1 - wmf.12 - No train (Fourth of July)
- July 8 - wmf.13 - Jeena
- July 15 - wmf.14 - Lars (with Antoine)
- July 22 - wmf.15 - Lars
- July 29 - wmf.16 - Brennen (with Tyler)
- Aug 5 - wmf.17 - Brennen
- Aug 12 - wmf.18 - No Train (Wikimania)
- Aug 19 - wmf.19 - Zeljko 😱
- Aug 26 - wmf.20 - Zeljko 😭
- Sep 2 - wmf.21 - Antoine
- Sep 9 - wmf.22 - Antoine
- Sep 16 - wmf.23 - Mukunda
- Sep 23 - wmf.24 - Mukunda
- Sep 30 - wmf.25 - Tyler
- Oct 7 - wmf.26 - Tyler
- Oct 14 - 1.35.0-wmf.1 -
SoS[edit]
- July 24: James
- July 31: Mukunda
- Aug 7: Mukunda
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko
Team Business[edit]
Timespent spreadsheet[edit]
- For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week
- spreadsheet for week 31: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UEmjIbv6voTF5bOnHdjOltw47AwPDtnmUo0h78wgYDY/edit#gid=1898371018
November Offsite/Summit[edit]
- TechConf19: November 12–15
- Offsite: November 16–20
- Arrive the 15th
- 16th is our fun day/outing
- 17–20 are working days
- 21st fly home
Book club[edit]
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - August '19 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Read only "gerrit-replica" active, handling 10% of all traffic (read from phab)
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- Wikipedia.org portal weekly update blocked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213806
Done TODO thcipriani reply
- Moving pages on wiki results in lowered article counts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212706
Done TODO tags core-platform
Scrum of Scrums[edit]
Incoming from last week[edit]
Outgoing this week[edit]
- Blocked by:
- Core Platform Team:
- MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
- Core Platform Team:
- Blocking:
- —
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.17 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220742 — fully deployed
- This week: No train this week due to Wikimania
- Next week:
- Code Health
- Log Health
- Train Health
Callouts[edit]
- Release Engineering
Train status and happenings[edit]
Standup![edit]
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our kanban board!
Antoine[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Brennen[edit]
- Planned vs. did last week:
- What I plan to do this week
- Other?
Dan[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- Vacation!
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
James[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jeena[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Lars[edit]
- What I planned vs did week of Aug 5
Done Attend RelEng team weekly meeting.
Done Attend Code Review WG meeting.
Not done Attend RelEng watercooler. (Surprise meeting conflict.)
Done Attend SSD sync-up meeting.
Not done Have weekly chat with Tyler. (Surprise vacation conflice.)
Not done Evaluate my own CI PoC implementation against the CI requirements, PoC goals.
In progress Continue discussion of CI WG PoC goals, evaluation.
In progress Review, update CI arch document based on feedback, new thinking.
Not done Skim Go book.
In progress Read Kubernetes book.
Done Update the team docs page with what I know.
Done Find how to use K8s containers as GitLab CI Runners.
- What I additionally did:
Done Met with James about my CI arch doc use case scenarios.
- What I planned to do vs did week of Aug 12:
Done CI PoC evaluation criteria meeting.
Done Team weekly meeting.
Done Watercooler meeting.
Done SSD sync-up meeting.
In progress Update CI arch doc v3 based on feedback from James, Tyler last week (in short: re-do most of the scenarios)
In progress Read more of the Kubernetes book.
Done Go to Wikimania (Thursday through Monday)
- What I plan to do this week
- Catch up on email on Tuesday
- Watercooler meeting on Tuesday
- SSD sync-up meeting on Tuesday
- Holiday Wednesday through Friday
- What I'm blocked on
- Everything takes a long time
- Other?
- When making plans for last week, I'd forgotten I'd away Thu/Fri, which interfered with me getting things done.
- I seem to have a curious blindness when reading calendars.
- I'm returning from Wikimania on Monday, next week. Might not make it to the team weekly meeting, but if so will update my standup in Etherpad from the road.
- The above notes written for last week's meeting, but updated for this meeting.
- As you read this, I'm travelling home from Stockholm, and not in the meeting, sorry.
- When making plans for last week, I'd forgotten I'd away Thu/Fri, which interfered with me getting things done.
Mukunda[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Zeljko[edit]
- What I planned vs did last week
- Planned to be on vacation. Successfully completed.
- What I plan to do this week
- Catch up on all the things o.O
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?