Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-05-04

2022-05-04

Welcome to Q4 for real.

Tech all hands followups

Happy star wars day

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✨Values✨

...what are they again?

• Developer focus
• Integrity
• FOSS
• Quality
• #together

ERC Update

• Meeting invite coming—60 minutes to discuss the 2nd draft

🏆 Wins

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

May '22 edition

• Our long, grinding efforts at deployment training are finally starting to result in more people doing deploys (well, ok, they've resulted in Clare doing deploys, anyway) \o/
• Rolled back train five times
• Deployment tooling just kind of sucks less than it used to
• Merged scap backport
• scap stage-train \o/
• Finally got rid of the generic service-pipeline-* jobs and migrated remaining 23 projects to use bespoke `.pipeline/config.yaml` based jobs

😶 Let's keep this empty

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/p/wikimedia/+/dashboard/teams:releng#:~:text=Keep%20this%20empty

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

May

• 6 May: Brennen
• 25-27 May: Antoine
• 26–27 May: Tyler
• 30 May: Memorial Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)

June

• ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (🔥)
• 15-17 Jun: Dan (🎒⛰)
• 20 Jun: Juneteenth (observed) (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• 20-30 Jun: Jaime

July

• 4 Jul: US Independence day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• ~29 Jul: Brennen (🪕)
• 1 Jul: Jaime

August

• Antoine: some weeks
• 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• 12 Aug: Brennen (🎸)
• 27-31 Aug: Brennen (🔥)

September

• 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• 1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)
• ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (🪕)

🔥🚂 Train

https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/

https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

• 2 May – wmf.10 – Antoine + Brennen
• 9 May - wmf.11 – Skipping for GitLab-a-thon
• 16 May - wmf.12 - Jaime + Antoine
• 23 May - wmf.13 - Dan + Jaime (Antoine out)
• 30 May - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Dan
• 6 Jun - wmf.15 - Jeena + Ahmon (Brennen out)
• 13 Jun - wmf.16 - Brennen + Jeena (Dan out)
• 20 Jun - wmf.17 - Antoine + Brennen (Jaime out)
• 27 Jun - wmf.18 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
• 4 Jul - wmf.19 - Jaime + Dan
• 11 Jul - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Jaime
• 18 Jul - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
• 25 Jul - wmf.22 - Brennen + Jeena
• 1 Aug - wmf.23 - Antoine + Brennen
• 8 Aug - wmf.24 - No train (Brennen out)
• 15 Aug - wmf.25

Hiring Update

• Started interviewing 2022-03-18
• 214 Applicants
• Pausing additinal interviews (getting *close*)

Hackathon

• Do we want to host a session?
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Schedule
• "Infrastructure Tools Room- topics such as Phabricator, Git, Gerrit, GitLab, or the DevPortal"
• GitLab-a-thon output present? Runbook?
• Probably doing a session with Addshore on mwcli (Jeena)
• I wonder if we could invite somebody from Phorge... (Just to cause trouble.)
• I'd love to write some Phabricator/Phorge RSS functionality one of these days

🦊🚀 GitLab-a-thon

Goals 1. Migration of blubber / blubberoid to GitLab 2. Mirroring all of Gerrit read-only to GitLab (less than 40GB of repos)

Now a subset of repos is the agreement with serviceops (disk space issues)—MediaWiki ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• Sprint workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5873/
• GitLab workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gitlab/
• Maybe useful: https://hatjitsu.toolforge.org/