Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-03-02

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2022-03-02[edit]

✨Values✨[edit]

  • Integrity
  • quality
  • freedom and open
  • developer focus
  • #together

Kate's here![edit]

  • Q&A/short time for chat

ERC Update[edit]

  • Thanks for the folks who attended sessions
  • Compiling a "very" first-draft of comm guidelines Mon Mar 7

🏆 Wins[edit]

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Feb '22 edition
  • logspam-watch is fast now because Ahmon is good at computers and can tolerate modifying Perl
  • Wrapping up MediaWiki settings loader expedition caching—abstractions for MediaWiki config settings—they can declare how they're cached and how long (with probablistic early expiry to help with lock contention)
  • Mukunda has freed himself from train :D
  • Jaime joined, already has a scap patchset
  • Things we didn't do but benefit from: New GitLab test instance in devtools project: https://gitlab.devtools.wmcloud.org/ --> same puppet as prod!
  • Tyler's DigitalOcean exploration spike
  • Scap prep auto! is neat <3
  • Antoine's qemu learnings!
  • moving train-dev to helm3
Mar '22 edition
  • Scap 4.4.1 released (includes container image building stuff) \o/
  • Onboarding Jaime!


😶 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

March[edit]

  • 13 Mar: U.S. Daylight savings
  • 14–25 Mar: Daylight confusion time
  • 18 Mar: U.S. March Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
  • 27 Mar: European Daylight savings time

April[edit]

  • 11 Apr - May 6: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave
  • ~17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
  • 7-11: Jaime

📚 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 + Mukunda
  • 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
  • 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 7 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
  • 14 Feb - wmf.22 - Antoine + Jeena
  • 21 Feb - wmf.23 - Dan + Antoine (President's day on Monday)
  • 28 Feb - wmf.24 - Brennen + Dan
  • 6 Mar - wmf.25 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 13 Mar - wmf.26 - Jeena + Ahmon (US enters Daylight Saving Time)
  • 20 Mar - wmf.27 - Antoine + Jeena
  • 27 Mar - wmf.28 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine (Europe enters Daylight Saving Time)

📤 Train update email[edit]

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
https://trainbow.toolforge.org
  • Sent by train conductor next week Yes Done

🪩 Retro[edit]

Let's grade ourselves. Goals are action-oriented "but when action is relentless and unceasing, it can be a hamster wheel of grim striving"

"We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience" – John Dewey

https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lxyE9RA=/