Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-05-05

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2021-05-05[edit]

Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 3 May: Jeena out
  • 3 May - June 4: Dan out for a month of paternity leave
  • 7 May: Dancy out, Brennen potentially out, Greg
  • 13 May: Antoine (Ascension day) (probably take May 14th off as well)
  • 13 May: Lars (Ascension day) (not taking May 14th off)
  • 21 May: Tyler
  • 24 May: Antoine (Pentecost)
  • 28 May: US staff with reqs
  • 31 May: Memorial day -- US staff with reqs
  • 15-17 Jun: All Hands
  • 18 Jun: Juneteenth -- US staff with reqs
  • 21-25 Jun: (whole week) Tyler -> Grand Canyon
  • 22-26 Jun: Dancy in the woods
  • 28 Jun: DC Switchover (tentative)

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 Mar - wmf.35 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 22 Mar - wmf.36 - Antoine + Ahmon
  • 29 Mar - wmf.37 - Mukunda + Antoine (Monday is a holiday)
  • 5 Apr - wmf.38 - Dan + Mukunda
  • 12 Apr - wmf.1 - Jeena + Dan
  • 26 Apr - wmf.3 - Lars + Jeena
  • 3 May - wmf.4 - Brennen + Lars (Ahmon to handle day of the 4th)
  • 10 May - wmf.5 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 17 May - wmf.6 - Antoine + Ahmon
  • 24 May - wmf.7 - Mukunda + Antoine (Friday is a holiday, Monday is holiday in France)
  • 31 May - wmf.8 - Jeena + Mukunda (Monday is a holiday)
  • 7 Jun - wmf.9 - Dan + Jeena
  • 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
  • 21 Jun - wmf.11 - …
  • 28 Jun - wmf.12 - …
  • 5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
  • 12 Jul - wmf.14 - …
  • 19 Jul - wmf.15 - …
  • 26 Jul - wmf.16 - …
  • 2 Aug - wmf.17 - …
  • 9 Aug - wmf.18 - …
  • 16 Aug - wmf.19 - …
  • 23 Aug - wmf.20 - …
  • 30 Aug - wmf.21 - …
  • 6 Sep - wmf.22 - …
  • 13 Sep - wmf.23 - …
  • 20 Sep - wmf.1 - …
  • 27 Sep - wmf.2 - …

Status[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor
  • Wednesday at 15:20 UTC: train blocked at group0, seemingly due to a type error in PHP

SoS[edit]

  • 2021-02-24: Thcipriani
  • 2021-03-24: James
  • 2021-03-31: Thcipriani
  • 2021-04-07: Thcipriani
  • 2021-04-14: Thcipriani
  • 2021-04-21: Thcipriani
  • 2021-04-28: James
  • 2021-05-05: James
  • 2021-05-12: James
  • 2021-05-12: No SoS this week

Outgoing (for next week)[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Web: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in MinervaNeue blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280901
    • Wikibase: Upgrading or dropping the legacy Ruby selenium jobs in Wikibase blocks the CI-wide upgrade from stretch to buster. T280491
  • Blocking:
  • Thank Yous:
    • Thank you to C. Scott for his support and patience waiting for T271863 to be resolved!
  • Updates:


Callouts[edit]

Incoming[edit]

Team Business[edit]

Incoming/Needs attention[edit]

  • I broke wikipedia...

Current list

  • Ahmon
  • Brennen
  • Jeena
  • Lars
  • Grant
  • Deb
  • Greg

Folks to check with

  • Ariel
  • Peter
  • Urbanecm
  • James_F
  • Niharika
  • Catrope
  • Ebernhardson
  • Amir L
  • Amir A
  • Leszek

Book club/Lunch and Learn[edit]


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

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Scap 3.17.1 tagged
  • There's GitLab Ansible code that seems to work
  • Deployment trainings

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

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Quibble 0.0.47

Standup![edit]

Ahmon[edit]

  • Updates:
    • Still wrapping up train-dev conversion from VMs to Docker containers.
      • I keep running out of space when testing.
      • misc changes to scap as a result
    • Revising MW multiversion container image build process.
  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:

Antoine[edit]

Brennen[edit]

  • Blocked by:
    • Pfizer.
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Fixed a small logspam-watch bug.
    • Some back and forth with John Bond re: GitLab configuration.
    • Train.

Dan (out)[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:

Jeena (out)[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:

Lars[edit]

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Scap Python 3 port making progress
      • disabled a few failing tests, since they mystify me, will need to be assessed later
      • otherwise tests pass, test deployment in train-dev works
    • pgp-public-keys add-key script change being reviewed
    • Would someone like to write a train-summary email Friday this week? ANTOINE!
      • review blocker task, and all blocking tasks for participation
      • copy previous email, update, add some silly personal touches, send

Mukunda[edit]

Tyler[edit]