Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020527
2020-05-27[edit]
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 11 May - Mukunda vacation (use it or lose it)
- 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs, also Lars (swapped with 21st)
- 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
- 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
- 14 August (fill-in): 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
- 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
- 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 18 May - wmf.33 - NO TRAIN (virtual offsite)
- 25 May - wmf.34 - Mukunda + James
- 1 Jun - wmf.35 - James + Jeena
- 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
= 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: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
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)
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester_(WMF)/MW-in-Containers_thoughts – would appreciate input. Next step take to Pipeline? (thcipriani: Yep.)
- Please review for pipeline meeting on 2020-06-10
Book club[edit]
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- The release train branch cut is now an automatic job
- Wikimedia Portals build and WDQS data release jobs moved to docker
- The Continuous Integration instances on WMCS have been fully migrated off Jessie! T236576
- Scap 1.14.0 released (by releng) and deployed (by serviceops)
- Setting up a local dev environment for Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Local_Dev_Environment
- CI server (contint) migrated to buster!
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]
Antoine[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week (I don't really track time)
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Jenkins & Zuul running on Buster / contint2001
- Worst thing
- Doxygen crashes when run inside Docker
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Hackathon
- Worst thing
- Docker
- neighborhood politics
What's on your workboard[edit]
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard[edit]
James[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- TMH hackathon fun. (And the offsite in general.)
- Worst thing
- Holiday weekends without any outside time.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Jeena[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 20 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Won a tea contest -- a contest where you make a scene with your tea-ware -- TODO: post picture in IRC
- Worst thing
- Everything's bad.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Lars[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- warm, sunny weather
- Worst thing
- noisy construction work across the road
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Got a phab local dev environment setup documented (kudos to Brennen for taking good notes!)
- Train branching automation still seems to be working, yay
- Worst thing
- just about everything else
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Train session last week
- Watercooler is back!
- Worst thing
- Short week + silent Friday == Cram all your meetings into 3 days
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: XL hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Carb-loading for half-marathon this Sunday 😋 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate_loading 🍝
- Intern Phabricator badge https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/recipients/16/ 🎓
- WATERCOOLERS!!!11!1!! 🚰
- Worst thing
- selenium-daily-betacommons-MediaWiki fails with `internal_api_error_LogicException: [...] Exception caught: Local entity source does not have items.` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253049 🤷♂️