Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-06-29

2022-06-29

Inspiration Week 2022

• 2 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
• scap backport revert
• scap rollback
• scap pushing commits with a shared ssh key
• Chad has some equipment: monitor and docking station required
• Dan's rested
• uneventful train
• Antoine got rest api in gerrit working for jsonschema

😶 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) 🇺🇸
• 5-8 Jul: Brennen WFNYC
• 7 Jul: Brennen out
• 14 Jul: Antoine celebrates Bastille Day 🇫🇷
• 21 Jul–25 Jul: Tyler
• 25-29 Jul: Dancy out
• 25–31 Jul: Antoine

August

• 1 Aug–15Aug: Antoine
• 4 Aug–19 Aug: Dan
• 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• 27-31 Aug: Brennen (🔥)
• 29Aug/2Sep: Antoine is present but kids are back to school

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