Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200304
2020-03-04[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
- 19–23 March: James in DC
- 30 March–3 April: James (NH)
- 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
- 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
- For now, I would suggest to hold off on purchasing extra tickets for others to join you on the trip until we hear more from Travel.
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)
Rotating positions[edit]
Train[edit]
- 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 - Brennen + Antoine
- 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[edit]
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- Code health metrics group asks what's Gerrit update schedule?
- We're at 2.15. Is there a plan to upgrade to 2.16? I've found https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739
- Is there plan to update to 3.0/3.1? https://www.gerritcodereview.com/releases-readme.html (I couldn't find a task in Phabricator.)
- They need it for Gerrit inline comments from Sonarcloud. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217008
2020-02-26[edit]
Book club[edit]
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- …
Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021[edit]
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
- Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
- By end of the month more refined Key Results
- C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week
Leveling[edit]
- This week's 1:1s
Scrum of Scrums for next week[edit]
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes[edit]
Incoming from last week (aka this morning)[edit]
Outgoing next week[edit]
- Blocked by:
- SRE ServiceOps: For the work to migrate wikimedia-portals to Docker (phab:T238747), we need an official base image for serving Web pages, either the same as future-MW (phab:T238774) or a simpler one
- Blocking:
- [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
- Updates:
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - phab:T233871
Callouts[edit]
- Release Engineering
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
Train status and happenings[edit]
Standup![edit]
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards[edit]
- 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[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Learning Phabricator code stuffs
- Worst thing
- The ambient terror of existing in early 2020
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Learning the words 'perne' and 'gyre', "perne in a gyre," poetry wikipedia:Sailing_to_Byzantium
- Seeing Antoine's face!
- Worst thing
- Witnessing the full weight and violence of the American aristocracy in its response to any degree of change for the common good
What's on your workboard[edit]
James[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Antoine!
- I'm not ill.
- Worst thing
- WFH.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Jeena[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Hi Antoine!
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Lars[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- seeing hashar online again
- Worst thing
- train rollback
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- We (Brennen and I) have a working search highlighting patch for Phabricator ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1179 ), working really well.
- Worst thing
- It's a tie between Corona the Virus and Corona the Beer.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Antoine is back!
- Worst thing
- Super Tuesday
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Antoine! 🥖🍷🐌
- Local testing meetup 🎤
- Worst thing
- Sick kids 😷
- Taxes 💸