Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200923
2020-09-23[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 15 Sep: Thcipriani out
- 18 Sep: Brennen out, Dancy out for a few hours around noon Pacific
- 21-25: Antoine barely there in his evenings
- 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
- Offsite?
- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
- 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs
- 6 Dec (Finnish independence day): Lars away
- 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
- 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
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 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
- 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
- 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
- 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Ahmon + Mukunda
- 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
- 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
- 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
- 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
- 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263182
- 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Antoine + Mukunda https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184
- 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.XX
- 7 Dec - wmf.XX
- 14 Dec - wmf.XX
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- Will the above schedule be affected by offsite week? bah. yes :)
Status[edit]
SoS[edit]
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
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.9 - phab:T257977
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.10 - phab:T257978
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - phab:T263177
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
- GitLab Consultation! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation Closes on September 30th.
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation
- CTO <> Release Engineering Team 2020-09-23 (Today)
Individual tuning sessions[edit]
- Target week of 2020-10-12
- Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Q2 Planning[edit]
Book club/Lunch and Learn[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Scap 3.15.0 was deployed to all servers
- We have trained another person to conduct the train
- New phabricator metrics / stats in the project reports (currently deployed to cloud, prod coming soon)
- image promotion in CI
- Tiny incremental improvements to logspam-watch (it now shows seconds)
- GitLab consultation well underway
- Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html
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]
Last week[edit]
train-dev:
* deploy-promote almost runs completely to the end w/o error. * Bringing a MW server online.
- Best thing
- First week of train conductor duty
- Our condolences
- First week of train conductor duty
- Worst thing
- l10n files obesity
What's on your workboard =[edit]
Antoine[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html
- Some train-dev things, will eventually look at making it faster to provision.
- Worst thing
- Yak shaved the aftermath with Parsoid, mediawiki-phan-config unreleased patch, phan tripping on php-ast and fun. Greatly supported by Daimona \O/
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- No shortage of GitLab opinions
- Worst thing
- Etherpad
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]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Went up the California coast for the weekend. 'twas niiiice.
- Worst thing
- Not getting an Internet connection at the new place until next Wednesday. :/
- Also short on childcare this next (possibly two) week(s) due to our nanny having a family emergency, so I might be working fewer hours.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Jeena[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
Lars[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Train-dev progress.
- Super secret side project that I'm not telling anyone about.
- Automated testing of most kinds.
- Forest walks in sunny not-cold autumn weather.
- Bright light lamp on my desk.
- Worst thing
- Trying to stay upbeat and positive, but it's difficult.
- The Darkness is almost upon me.
- Having trouble not adding things to bulleted lists.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Got phabricator metrics report code deployed to teh cloud test instance:
- Worst thing
- No complaints
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- GitLab consultation
- Worst thing
- GitLab consultation
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- A sports doctor (if that's a thing) said I'm healthy enough to run a marathon. 👩⚕️
- Worst thing
- The marathon I've trained for has been cancelled. I'll have to run it alone. 🏃♂️