Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200805
2020-08-05[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 3-7 August: Greg taking the week off
- 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
- 21 August Mukunda day off
- 31 August Lars day off
- tbd: Brennen camping at some point
- 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
- 1 Sep: Lars day off
- 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]
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]
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - phab:T257970
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - phab:T257971
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - phab:T257972
Callouts[edit]
- Release Engineering
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
- "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
- scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259002
- We nominally own this process as with all broken processes
- No one on the team, as far as I'm aware, knows how to do this
- Sam Reed has offered to pair with someone on this creation
- Volunteers? Ahmon thank you! https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki
Individual Tuning Sessions[edit]
Want to start this week: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Book club/Lunch and Learn[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- 2020-08-17: Quibble with Antoine Musso
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
- Jenkins node Docker image cleanup & re-onlining after disk space recovers
- Collection of disk space stats on Jenkins workers
- Credentials and environment variables in PipelineLib
- Blubber now correctly supports multi-stage artifact copies
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority
TODO Triage![edit]
Ahmon[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Getting train-dev going on my machine
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Antoine[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Cause something always explode while I am on vacations
- Chromium no more fills cache with .org.chromium.XXX or lighthouse.XXXX directory. Thus the Docker agents should no more disconnect due to the huge cache filing them.
- Thank you all for the debugging, assistance etc.
- Worst thing
- Did I mention code review?
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Quiet trains
- Worst thing
- Trains rarely stay quiet
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- PipelineLib patch reviews!
- Worst thing
- Not having a proper weekend (too many needs from too many people)
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority
- Will be filing some tasks and talking to folks about MW image composition
Jeena[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
- Will be working on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255835 this week
Lars[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- New toy
- Worst thing
- World. Humanity. 10. 19. 45.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Making progress getting some actual data for phabricator project reports
- Worst thing
- Still no notification server in Phabricator.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- As my high school art teacher used to say, "every day above ground is a great day"
- Worst thing
- Houses are so. much. work.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing