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2020-02-26

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
    • any news? train in mid-March?
  • 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): (US?) 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): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 1 May (May Day): Lars
  • 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
  • 15 May: Jeena
  • 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone
  • 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)

Rotating positions

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Train

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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

TODO: thcipriani calendar updates

SoS

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  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business

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Incoming/Needs attention

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From 2019-02-19

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  • Yes Done [James] T245054 Remote call on integration-agent-docker-1001 failed
    • Repooling thcipriani
    • if not...to the task
    • TODO: thcipriani: make runbook
  • Yes Done [James] T238224 Landing the Docker in core patch — I think we'll need a formal-ish release announcement when we merge it.
  • Yes Done [James] Eurgh Parsoid deploy strategy. Need meeting.
    • Yes Done James to make meeting. Tyler/Mukunda/James, Parsing, ?SRE Service Ops.

2020-02-26

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Book club

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Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests.
  • Scap release 1.13.0. \o/
  • Local development MediaWiki docker environment has shipped and been announced. yaay James, Brennen (also mostly Kosta)

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021

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If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again

ACTIONS:

Leveling

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Scrum of Scrums for next week

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Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

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Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

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Callouts
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Outgoing next week

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Callouts
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Train status and happenings

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

Standup!

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Our Workboards

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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Brennen

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • There's a docker-compose.yml in mw/core, nothing has blown up yet.
  • Worst thing
    • I have been reading the news.

What's on your workboard

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Dan

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Last week

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  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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James

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Getting docker-compose out of the door is great.
    • Also, the wmf.20 train was nice and quiet.
  • Worst thing
    • I nearly took down prod with an assumption about code being written in a safe way. Oops.

What's on your workboard

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Jeena

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • "I'm doing the train this week"
  • Worst thing
    • see above

What's on your workboard

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Lars

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • etherpad2git
  • Worst thing
    • the light in the tunnel is an oncoming train

What's on your workboard

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Mukunda

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Last week

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What's on your workboard

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Tyler

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Last week

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  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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Zeljko

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • bookclub! 📚
    • software testing anti-patterns office hours 🎙
    • carnival! 🤡
    • bought tickets for Lisbon for my entire family ✈️
  • Worst thing
    • sick kids 🦠

What's on your workboard

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What's on no-one's workboard

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