Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200715

From mediawiki.org


2020-07-15[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 16–17 July: Mukunda's out, birthday ;) Happy birthday!
  • 11–26 July: Antoine out
  • 13th & 22–24 July: Tyler out
  • 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs -- Shortened train week
  • 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

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


  • 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
  • 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
  • 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
    • Group2 on Wednesday US
  • 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
  • 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
  • 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
  • 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
  • 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
  • 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
    • Group2 on Wednesday US?
  • 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
  • 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
  • 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train

Status[edit]

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


SoS[edit]

  • 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes[edit]

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing[edit]

Callouts[edit]

Team Business[edit]

Incoming/Needs attention[edit]

Keysigning[edit]

Individual Tuning Sessions[edit]

Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Branding[edit]

If you care I'm supposed to do a survey to "represent my team's opinions" on branding so that technology's opinion can be conveyed to comms in a succinct way. If you don't care: skip this. If you think this is a path fraught with peril best avoided, well, maybe shout into the void now.

I'll just leave this here, feel free to mark it up, I'll respond to the survey today at 18:00UTC

Book club/Lunch and Learn[edit]

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
  • Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
  • Cassandra Docker image

Q1 Planning[edit]

  • These are all in betterworks and aligned to my objectives -- thank you all
    • Still TBD what becomes of our code review work; working on community consultation most likely
    • Next steps Tyler + Greg talking with "some people" :)

Standup![edit]

Our Workboards[edit]

TODO Triage![edit]

Ahmon[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • fixing aptly
  • Worst thing
    • n/a

What's on your workboard[edit]

Antoine[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard[edit]

Brennen[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 38 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • Cutting torches, impact drivers, lithium battery packs
      • don't cut batteries!
  • Worst thing
    • Hughesnet

What's on your workboard[edit]


Dan[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard[edit]


Jeena[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • I am looking forward to my new tea steeping cup arriving
  • Worst thing
    • It didn't ship yet

What's on your workboard[edit]

Lars[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • Cable management stuff
  • Worst thing
    • "sudo mkfs" when I meant "sudo fsck"

What's on your workboard[edit]


Mukunda[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • I remembered my pgp keychain password!
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard[edit]

Tyler[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week (I took a day off, jeez)

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • Took a day off, went hiking, got a cat
      • Ž: what does the dog say?! 🐶
  • Worst thing
    • Too much sun on my day off; brain fried

What's on your workboard[edit]


Zeljko[edit]

  • Current COVID19 status: 🏝 hours/week

Last week[edit]

  • Best thing
    • Ran 25k on Sunday, the most I've ever run, took me 3 hours. 😅
    • New and shiny QTE team blog - Wow. So wikimedia. Such quality. Many testing. Very team. 🐶 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/21/
    • Working from a village on an Island in the Adriatic sea! 🌊
    • Agreeing to deploy Abstract Wikipedia 😱
  • Worst thing
    • Working from a village on an Island in the Adriatic sea! 👨‍💻

What's on your workboard[edit]

What's on no-one's workboard[edit]

Retrieved from "https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Checkin_archive/20200715&oldid=3976666"