Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200205

2020-02-05

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
• 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs

• 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
• 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)

• 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
• 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
• 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs

• 1 May (May Day): Lars
• 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
• 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Europe, somewhere) - Everyone
• 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
• 25 May (Memorial Day): Staff with reqs

Rotating positions

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

• 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
• 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
• 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
• 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
• 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
• 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
• 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
• 9 Mar - wmf.23 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
• 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
• 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
• 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
• 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
• 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen

SoS

• Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

For 2/12:

• Jenkins plugins security advisory - 2012-02-12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244582

From 2/5

• API testing in core decisions (James mostly dealing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236680
  •  Done ACTION: Tyler to e-mail CPT, CCing James, JR, Željko
• Gerrit branch cleanup/scap clean cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244368
• puppet hasn't run in beta for...a while (4291 minutes ago, ~3 days)
  • Mukunda to take a look, see what's going on (if more than just differing puppet versions)

Book club

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

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

Scrum of Scrums for next week

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

• Blocked by:
  • Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
  • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
  • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
  • Train Health
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
      • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
      • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • Train blocked
    • (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
    • Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
  • The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Outgoing next week

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868

Train status and happenings

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

WMF.18 blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866

• phab:T244019 Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia
  • appears to be minor enough to move forward unless things break more than is currently evident.
  • Will move forward with the train (cautiously) and reassess that situation later.

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 (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/

• "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • Hanging out with y'all.
• Worst thing
  • Sitting in rooms.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
  • Seeing all y'all
  • Inventing Jimbo™️ ("Yo, Jimbo") over beers with Maryana/JR/Brennen/Zeljko/Greg and co
    • Further work to come...
• Worst thing
  • Not getting enough sleep following All Hands

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Greg

Last week

• Best thing
  • Seeing ya'll
• Worst thing
  • I is a tired

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/

James

Last week

• Best thing
  • All Hands was lovely, as always.
• Worst thing
  • All Hands was draining, as always (and not everyone has left yet).

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
  • all hands was a bit fun
• Worst thing
  • :( Snaily

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Meeting people in person at All Hands
• Worst thing
  • Airplanes
  • Airports
  • Flights
  • Travel
  • Jet lag
  • More jet lag
  • Forever jet lag
  • There's no hope of a Zeppelin

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
• Board and tasks up to date
• Nothing much has happened on tasks, due to Jet Hands and All lag
• Not entirely well, not very productive this week
• Is anyone else interested in a threat modelling exercise with the security team?

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
    • Ž: please suggest Wikimedia's got talent as an idea for next year talent show format 😉
• Worst thing
  • my bad attempt at OKR humor: https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msg/foundation-optional/7WQHTPBGJUw/PxJ030I1AwAJ

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • World Championship of Ping Pong 🏓
• Worst thing
  • "Travelling east by six to nine time zones causes the biggest problems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag#Management_after_travelling_east 🥱

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/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn