Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-01-13

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2020-01-13[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
  • 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
  • 20 Jan: Dan Out
  • 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs
  • 29 Mar: US staff with reqs
  • 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
  • 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs

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


  • 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
  • 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
  • 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
  • 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
  • 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
  • 21 Dec - wmf.23 - No Train
  • 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
  • 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars Antoine
    • NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
  • 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
  • 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
  • 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
  • 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
  • 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)

Status[edit]

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

SoS[edit]

  • 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
  • 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
  • 2020-11-25: Brennen
  • 2020-12-02: Ahmon
  • 2020-12-09: Tyler
  • 2020-12-16: Antoine
  • 2021-01-06: Tyler
  • 2021-01-13: Text only update
  • 2021-01-20: Mukunda

Outgoing[edit]

Callouts[edit]

Incoming[edit]

Team Business[edit]

Incoming/Needs attention[edit]

Book club/Lunch and Learn[edit]

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Jan '21 edition[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Update dev images to split apache and php containers for local dev

Standup![edit]

Ahmon[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • None
  • Blocking:
    • None, AFIAK
  • Updates:
    • Hacking on containerized multiversion MW. Met with ServiceOps today. Looks like we're all on the same page. Joe pointed me to some images that I can use.

Antoine[edit]


Common Logging Schema, stuff related to logstash. Presentation by Cole White (today 01/13 - 21:00 UTC I think) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HYHCPvuz93nAYXQSEReUN07HQTQUF_nvltag5H_YZq4/edit#heading=h.vpanev2oq14b https://meet.google.com/ukm-buat-ukg


Brennen[edit]


Dan[edit]

Jeena[edit]

Lars[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Brain.
    • Snow.
  • Blocking:
    • Myself?
  • Updates:
    • Train this week.


Mukunda[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • 🤷
  • Blocking:
    • 🤷
  • Updates:
    • Discussed some minor updates for the phabricator project reporting with Naïké.
      • The changes are minor and I've already got the code changes almost finished.
    • Very busy week with 10+ meetings yay
    • I probably need to take a look at phatality


Tyler[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • None
  • Blocking:
    • Everything all the time
  • Updates:
    • GitLab consultat update
      • New req#s for misc services
    • Deployment training: back to thinking about that next week
    • Many slides to write in the interim