Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20191106

2019-11-06

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• November 1 (All Saints' Day): Željko, Antoine holiday
• November 8–10: WikiCon North America (James)
• November 11 (Veterans' Day): US Staff
• November 12–15: TechConf19
• November 16–20: Offsite
• November 21–30: Jeena
• November 25–29: Dan
• November 28–29 (Thanksgiving): US Staff
• December 1–2: Jeena
• December 6: Lars (Finnish Independence Day)
• December 25–31 (Christmas): US Staff (+ everyone?)
• December 25–26: Lars, Željko, Christmas
• 1 January (New Year's Day): US Staff, Lars, Željko
• 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): US Staff

Rotating positions

Train

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R

• 14 Oct - wmf.2 - Jeena + Lars
• 21 Oct - wmf.3 - Lars + Brennen
• 28 Oct - wmf.4 - Brennen + Mukunda
• 4 Nov - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 11 Nov - wmf.6 - No Train (Tech conf)
• 18 Nov - wmf.7 - No Train (Off site)
• 25 Nov - wmf.8 - Group0 on Tuesday Brennen + Mukunda (Thanksgiving)
• 2 Dec - wmf.8 part 2 - Wednesday Group1 + Thursday Group2
• 9 Dec - wmf.10 - TBD
• 16 Dec - wmf.11 - TBD
• 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
• 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
• 6 Jan - wmf.14 - TBD
• 13 Jan - wmf.15 - TBD

SoS

• Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business

Timespent spreadsheet

For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week

• spreadsheet for week 44 (2019-10-28) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YS_2eUQWUOnygshMfxgGPu93GKGCO5t00yjUREQ5B-I/edit#gid=288431087

• • reminder: your time spent doesn't need to total to 100%

Clinic Duty Proposal

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Clinic_Duty

November Offsite/Summit

• 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
  • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/EngProdTeam-Offsite-2019-11-planning

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • *link to form*

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - November '19 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• branch.py for cutting the branch for train

• logspam-watch for tailing logfiles

November

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Incoming/Needs attention

• New workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4360/ -- make sure your tasks look right

Scrum of Scrums for next week

Outgoing next week

• Blocked:
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.4 - phab:T233852
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - phab:T233853 - last train before two week break
    • Next week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • This week's train (1.35.0-wmf.5 - phab:T233853) is the last train before two week break
  • v3 of architecture document for new continuous integration wants review and feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:LarsWirzenius/NewCI

Train status and happenings

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

Grant Q&A

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly+Grant