Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-01-11

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2022-01-11[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
Nov '21 edition
  • Deploy MediaWiki manually in Train-Dev to k8s!
  • Pipeline supports copying files out of containers as published artifacts in Jenkins!
  • Deployed Tuesday with a script thing!
  • Scap 4.0.3 release!
  • record time for scap release
  • Worked?!l
out a path forward for GitLab runner architecture with SRE; moved projects to top-level group with runners
Dec '21 edition
  • Greg now director of FR tech!
  • Performance scap improvements (beta-scap-sync-world takes less time than ever)
  • Scap backtrace much cleaner (fewer of them for common error situations)
  • Several small Phabricator improvements including:
   * improvements to in-progress status for workboards
   * anti-vandalism feature to prevent merging more than 5 tasks in a single transaction.
   * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298063
   * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288956
   * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295934
   * https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T297249
  • Test wiki that has NO LocalSettings.php — just uses yaml
  • Pipelinelib for helm3
  • Scap backport validation
Jan '21 edition
  • New release of Java Gearman plugin


😶 Let's keep this empty[edit]

📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

January[edit]

  • 3 Jan: New Years (observed—US Staff with reqs)
  • 14–18 Jan: Tyler—getting PRK (long weekend, effectively)
  • 17 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr Day (US Staff with reqs)
  • 28 Jan: Jeena

February[edit]

  • 21 Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day (US Staff with reqs)


📚 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

🔥🚂 Train[edit]

https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


  • 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 - NO TRAIN
  • 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Brennen + Jeena
  • 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Antoine + Ahmon
  • 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
  • 27 Dec - wmf.15 - NO TRAIN
  • 3 Jan - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
  • 10 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
  • 17 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan
  • 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
  • 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen

📤 Train update email[edit]

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
https://wheelofnames.com/#
https://trainbow.toolforge.org
  • Set by train conductor next week

🎪🗣️DEMO DAY!!!1![edit]

Steps[edit]

Prepare (a little) – to paraphrase Strunk & White: The more clearly you see the shape of your demo, the better the chance of success[^1]. What's the one thing you want us to remember? Tell us a story – What's a real problem your demo solves? Don't just tell us how it works, show us its value! What's next!? – What are the next steps with your project? Or what does your work enable?

[^1]: <https://archive.org/details/pdfy-2_qp8jQ61OI6NHwa/page/n21/mode/2up>

SignUp[edit]

Tyler Cipriani — BPFCC, eBPF

Ahmon Dancy - scap prep auto Jeena - scap backport validation (if I can get my train-dev environment working)