Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-04-06
2022-04-06[edit]
πKey signing[edit]
https://people.wikimedia.org/~thcipriani/2022-03-30_ksp.txt
β¨Valuesβ¨[edit]
DF, I, F&OS, Q, #T
ERC Update[edit]
- ERC team members are giving feedback (I gave some feedbackβdeadline Soonβ’)
π Wins[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Mar '22 edition
- Scap 4.4.1 released (includes container image building stuff) \o/
- Brennen talked publicly and was not shamed by it
- Onboarding Jaime!
- Dan's blubber demo!
- docker build can use a blubber file directly now
- Supports bd808 and developer tooling
- Opens up for a more flexible release model
- Job post posted
- scap backport exits if change is not mergeable
- Trainsperiment was instructive AND SUCCESSFUL!
- Got a working mw container image deployed from deploy1002 woohoo π³π
- Fixed check-new-errors script (extremely tiny win) \o/
- Jaime's first scap release!
- I don't have to press enter any more! (added -n)
- Train schedule worked!
- deploy-promote upstreamed to scap!
- Apr '22 edition
- Jamie deployed the train by his lonesome today -- and found bugs \o/
- Jaime rolledback the train
- Temi learned about GPG keys
πΆ Let's keep this empty[edit]
π 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
April[edit]
- 1 Apr: U.S. April Holiday (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
- 4-29 Apr: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave
- 4β8 Apr: Brennen out sick
- ~17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
- 7-11 Apr: Jaime
- 11β15 Apr: Antoine
- 18-22 Antoine work but kids are in holidays so less availability in my evenings
- 18-21: Dancy PTO
- 22 Apr: Earth Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
May[edit]
- ?: Tyler
- X Y May Antoine
- 25-27 May: Antoine
- 30 May: Memorial Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
June[edit]
- ~9-10 Jun: Brennen
π Book club/π± 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
π₯π 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 β 1.39.0-wmf.1, 1.39.0-wmf.2, 1.39.0-wmf.3, 1.39.0-wmf.4 βππ§ͺ Trainsperiments, ya'll
- 28 Mar - wmf.5 - Antoine + Jeena
- 4 Apr - wmf.6 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine
- Security patch problems
- Quiet today on group1
- 11 Apr - wmf.7 - Ahmon + Jaime
- 18 Apr - wmf.8 - Jeena + Brennen (Antoine can cover UTC mornings)
- 25 Apr - wmf.9 - Β ??? (Antoine can do)
Hiring Update[edit]
- Had five interviews
- 15x applications
- 13 rejected so far
- 1 is in tech task
- 1 been passed on to tech screen
π± Sprin{g,t} Cleaning[edit]
- INBOX triage
- 27 tasks currently
- Do
- Doing (for things this quarter)
- Priority Backlog (for things for next sprint)
- Current sprint (for things...in this sprint)
- Delegate
- Untag
- Move to: Release Engineering (Radar)
- Defer
- Soon β Soon
- Maye never β Seen
- Q3 work cleanup
- Old sprint board cleanup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5861/