Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-03-02
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]
- Sent by train conductor next week 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