Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020610
2020-06-10[edit]
Thcipriani: I'm attending a budget meeting today because I find budgets fascinating -- Lars will run the meeting today! EngProd Management+CTO once-every-so-often meeting. Brennen will run the meeting today!
Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- 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
- 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
- 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
- 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
= 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
- Train branch cut time is changing:
- Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday…
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
- Train branch cut time is changing:
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)
- Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
Team Business[edit]
Incoming/Needs attention[edit]
- ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!
- REMINDER: fill out the "silent Friday" survey by June 15th
- REMINDER: File your wellness benefits by June 15th: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Wellness_Program
- See also related office hours in staff calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
- Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!
- Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
- Thcipriani: Please update as you have time -- should be quick, get it out of the way :)
- Thanks: Brennen, James, Mukunda (as of 2020-06-08)
- Lars didn't see anything needing updating for himself
Book club[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- Add any recommendations
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
- Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
- MediaWiki branch cuts are going to be fully automated, at last!!!!
- TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
- Interactive logspam-watch
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
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Resuming on review work and grooming task backlogs!
- Worst thing
- Nothing achieved on Monday, it was kids day
What's on your workboard[edit]
Brennen[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Finally sorted out all the miscellany with TimedMediaHandler
- Worst thing
- Living in a failing state.
- Pollen.
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
- Am in London.
- Worst thing
- Am in lockdown anyway.
What's on your workboard[edit]
Jeena[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: ~25 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Our baby pony, "Neptune"
- Pony pictures?
- Our baby pony, "Neptune"
- Worst thing
- Having to haul to the vet 2 hours away on Sunday night
What's on your workboard[edit]
Lars[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Found a flat, signed contract. Moving within the foreseeable future.
- Worst thing
- Going to move.
- Humanity in general.
- https://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/CalvinAndHobbesOnSurestSignOfIntelligentLife
What's on your workboard[edit]
Mukunda[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Made some progress on running puppet in the train-dev vm
- Worst thing
- Our production Puppet is insane
What's on your workboard[edit]
Tyler[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Missing the team meeting again :(
What's on your workboard[edit]
Zeljko[edit]
- Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week
Last week[edit]
- Best thing
- Worst thing