Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-05-24
2023-05-24[edit]
- Last time (look at us having meetings on a normal cadence, feelsgoodman)
🏆 Wins[edit]
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- May '23 edition
- draft hypotheses are drafted
- Andre on team (nascently)
- Local working phorge install—legalpad is the only area of divergance
- Killing the dockerfile in blubber—adding functional tests
- Some work under Migrate mediawiki/ namespace from Gerrit to GitLab
- Updates to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Hosting_a_project_on_GitLab and a script for importing users to groups for GitLab
- Gerrit security update
- Jeena got tests to pass for scap backport
- Doxygen no more deployment of gh-pages branch (saves us 1GB of junk :D)
- GitLab spam mitigation
- Nascent plan for MediaWiki under GitLab
- 🍅🥬🫑 My garden is planted
- Phorge is on devtools
- doc publishing on GitLab is working \o/
- last night I have added to Gerrit support for Patch Demo (tool used to spin wikis) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332474#8874936
- 💰 Won playing Blackjack at the casino last weekend
- scap backport integration tests!
🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions[edit]
😶 Let's keep these empty[edit]
Code review[edit]
Gerrit Access requests[edit]
GitLab Access requests[edit]
📅 Vacations/Important dates[edit]
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
May 2023[edit]
* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day
- 01 Mon–05 Fri: 🎉 Offsite week—Add topics/activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
- 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
- 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
- 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
- 18: Antoine/Jaime – public holiday
- 15-25: Dan - vacation
- 26 Fri: Brennen (part day)
- 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US staff with reqs
- 29 Mon: Antoine (Pentecost)
June 2023[edit]
- 7 Wed–9 Fri: Jaime
- 8 Thu–9 Fri: Brennen → Apogaea
- 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
- 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D
July 2023[edit]
- 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D :D
- 03 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
- 06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
- 28 Fri: Brennen out for RockyGrass
August 2023[edit]
- 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D :D :D
- 09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
- 04 Fri: Brennen → NYC (probable half day)
- 11 Fri: Brennen out for Folks Fest
- 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
September 2023[edit]
- 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
- 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)
🔥🚂 Train[edit]
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
- 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
- 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
- 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
- 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
- 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
- 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
- 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
- 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
- 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad Dan + Ahmon
- 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
- 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
- 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad
- 24 Apr – wmf.6 – Jeena + Jaime
- 1 May – wmf.7 – Brennen + Jeena
- 8 May – wmf.8 – Antoine + Brennen (Ahmon out + Antoine Out 8th)
- 15 May – wmf.9 – Ahmon + Antoine (Dan out + Chad out)
- 22 May – wmf.10 – Chad + Ahmon (Dan out + Jeena out 26th)
- 29 May – wmf.11 – Dan + Chad (Memorial Day 29th)
- 5 Jun – wmf.12 – Jaime Jeena + Dan (Brennen out, Jaime out)
- 12 Jun – wmf.13 – Jaime + Jeena
- 26 Jun – wmf.14 (Jeena out)
- 3 Jul – wmf.15
Team discussions[edit]
Ops sync
- GitLab: OIDC for auth for GitLab, needs testing
June 19: offsite—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#heading=h.vla9ypqu2vu3
Sprint Planning[edit]
Release-Engineering-Team (They Live 🕶️🧟) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6547/ May 30–Jun 16th
~Goals[edit]
- l10n/doc-publishing from GitLab
- (blocker from: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332953)
- Doc publishing: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336168
- L10n: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334419
- (blocker from: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332953)
- Progress: Mediawiki permission models
- Phorge live in production
- Server migrations
Small things[edit]
- Scap self-installer—spurious error messages
- Library to "create releases" bump versions in a consistent way—scap, blubber duplicate code
- Scap locks cleanup functionality
- Automating CI-Jenkins