Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-06-22

2022-06-22

Inspiration Week 2022

• 3 weeks away!
• July 11th: <https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Engineering/Inspiration_Week_2022>
  • tl;dr: work on something; not work

ERC Update

• Draft two in progress

Team API

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KoWCLyhHbekAf8OTmtDnCvNzssCnzEv479et9ljhhvs/edit#

🏆 Wins

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

June '22 edition

• GitLab Sprint summary by Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/288/gitlab-a-thon/
• We have GitLab on new metal, and can probably enable GL Container Registry \o/
• We know more about git than we did in May
• Functional scap already self-installed in prod
• JWT presentation!
• Phab deployment has a runbook https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Phabricator/Deployment
• scap scap
  • successfully used it
• ITCs getting done
• somebody noticed phab

😶 Let's these this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Gerrit access requests

📅 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

June

• ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (🔥⛺) (probably ((maybe)))
• 9 Jun: Antoine
• 15-17 Jun: Dan (🎒⛰)
• 20 Jun: Juneteenth (observed) (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• 27 Jun: Tyler
• 22 29 Jun: Brennen out afternoon
• 20-30 Jun: Jaime

July

• 1 Jul: Jaime; Dan (🏔); Tyler (afternoon)
• 4 Jul: US Independence day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• ~Jul 7: Brennen out
• 25-29 Jul: Dancy out

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 - Ahmon + Jaime (Antoine out)
• 30 May - wmf.14 - Jeena + Ahmon
• 6 Jun - wmf.15 - Dan + Jeena (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

📝 🤥 Two Truths and a Lie

Rules

• Put in three declarative statements about yourself
• Two of them should be true
• One of them should be a lie

Your turn

• When it's your turn, read all three statments (earnestly)
• We'll vote for the one we think is a lie with +1
• Once voting is complete, you'll reveal the lie

• Ahmon
  • I have met Elias Levy (aka Aleph One), the author of the famous Phrack article: Smashing the stack for fun and profit +1 +1
  • My mother is Chinese +1+1
  • I was fined for phone phreaking as a teenager +1 +1

• Antoine
  • Learned skateboarding at 40 years old
  • Was prevented by coworkers from burning tires for work purposes +1+1+1
  • I am playing electrical bass +1 +1 +1

• Chad
• During the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, the WMF staff was stranded in Berlin. We tried to get home via:
  • Asking Mark Shuttleworth to fly us out on his private jet +1+1
  • Taking the Orient Express to Istanbul to fly home the long way
  • Taking a ship home from the UK+1 +1 +1 +1

• Brennen
  • I play several stringed instruments, but am best at mandolin.+1+1have
  • I have had a false tooth since the age of 7. +1 +1
  • I have 17 first cousins.+1 +1 (18?)

• Dan
  • I was once described as "half man, half sweater"
  • I have fallen into a pit of cow dung +1 +1
  • I am North American Dance Dance Revolution champion of 2002 +1+1+1 +1

• Temi
  • I've met my favorite musician (Wizkid) in real life
  • I'm scared of animals and most things not human upclose +1+1 +1+1+1 +1
  • I only got 2hours of sleep today

• Tyler
  • I'm running a half-marathon on the 4th of July +1 +1+1
  • I have an embroidered patch presented to me by the Wikimedia design team which depicts Peter I's beard tax coin +1
  • I own an Apple II +1+1