Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-10-20
2021-10-20[edit]
✨Values✨[edit]
- Developer focused
- Freedom and open source
- Integrity
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Quality
🏆 Wins[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- October '21 edition
- Scap 4 release!! Now with more Python
- GitLab upgrades
- Gerrit's in train-dev unblocks scap backport dev
- Data^3d is functional and ready for demos
- More people using train dev
- Antoine uses chrome^Hium |not sure that is a win|
- Gerrit upgrade to 3.3.6 (fixes some minor ui glitches)
- Client side errors are blocking the train
- GitLab is open to all
- dashboards getting close to demo-worthy?
😶 Let's keep this empty[edit]
📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
October[edit]
- Monday, 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day (US Staff with reqs)
- 11-13 Oct: Tyler out
- 20 Oct: Brennen out
November[edit]
(Antoine a week at early in november)
- 1 Nov: Antoine (All saints)
- 2 Nov: Election day (US Staff with reqs)
- 8 Nov: Jeena (maybe)
- 11 Nov: Veterans day (US Staff with reqs)
- 11 Nov: Antoine (1914/1918)
- 12 Nov: Tyler
- 25-26 Nov: Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)
December[edit]
- 10 Dec: Jeena
- 24-31 December: End of Year Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
- Might be all staff
📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn
- Mon, Oct 25 (next Monday) EngProd Lunch and Learn: DragonFly Q&A with Janis Meybohm
- Q&A style on dragonfly and k8s things generally
- Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12WyzsoR6QeJyoAfOVPKoSpsLYJA6T_SlBlFGtIvZrAs/edit#slide=id.g1aab7ba12b_0_24
- SRE Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uoioer1850dHO8kUFq5sWNrwy84txRv7/view
🔥🚂 Train[edit]
- 27 Sep - wmf.2 - Jeena + Dan
- 4 Oct - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jeena
- 11 Oct - wmf.4 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
- 8 Nov - wmf.8 - NO TRAIN (Veteran's day Nov 11)
- 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
- 22 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
- 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
- 27 Dec - wmf.17 - NO TRAIN
- 3 Jan - wmf.18 - Dan + Mukunda
- 10 Jan - wmf.19 - Jeena + Dan
📤 Train update email[edit]
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
- https://wheelofnames.com/#
- https://trainbow.toolforge.org
- 2021-05-17: Jeena
- 2021-05-24: Brennen
- 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
- 2021-07-14: Dan <3
- 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
- 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :( </3
- 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3
- 2021-08-27/30: Mukunda <3
- 2021-09- 17/20: Ahmon <3
- 2021-09-24/27: Brennen <3
- 2021-10-01/04: tyler :(
Done 2021-10-06: Tyler to automate :)
- 2021-10-11 Brennen
- 2021-10-18 Antoine (train conductor)
🏥 Triage[edit]
- Priority Backlog 🔥: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/?project=PHID-PROJ-ti3zwg5ygjhzwoiot3vu&statuses=open()&group=none&order=newest#R
- Done by Thu Nov 4: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5598/
- Steps
- Empty INBOX
- Urgent tasks: move to Priority Backlog 🔥
- Important, not urgent: Move to Next ➡️
- Not important or urgent: Move to Seen 🙈
- Move in progress → Done by Thu Nov 4
- Including trains
- Assign points
- Move from Priority Backlog 🔥 → Done by Thu Nov 4 📅
- Assign points
- Rejoice