Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2026-07-01
2026-07-01
[edit]📋 Agenda
[edit]- Wins
- Vacations/Important dates
- Clinic duty and Train update
- Team Discussion:
🏆 Wins/winterrogation
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Jul 2026
- https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/scap/-/merge_requests/1209 config.py: Fix default mw_web_clusters
- https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/scap/-/merge_requests/1210 main.py: Only announce rollback when k8s deployment is enabled
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/1305483 scap.cfg.erb: Add jobrunner to beta mw_web_clusters list
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/1302910 modules/beta/files/wmf-beta-update-databases.py: Keep update.php jobs topped up
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/1302978 modules/profile/files/puppet/bin: cleanup puppet SSL on CA server change
- https://github.com/yaoyuannnn/gerritlab/pull/87 2.1.0: Ensure remote branches are ready before creating MRs
- https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/train-dev/-/merge_requests/183 scap.cfg: mediawiki_image_extra_packages netcat -> netcat-openbsd
- https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/827589 rebuildLocalisationCache.php: Print the reason for rebuilding a language [Created Aug 2022]
- Fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429662 No Puppet resources found on instance deployment-changeprop-1 on project deployment-prep
- Fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430384 Last Puppet run was over 24 hours ago on instance deployment-echostore02 in project deployment-prep
- Both of these were due to an ever-growing container log filling up the filesystem. Need to find a permanent solution
- Rolled fix for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425165 Cannot select REL1_46 on PatchDemo (thanks for helping dig for repo paths, Jeena)
- Documented using the Sortinghat GraphQL API with curl examples on https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Community_metrics&diff=8460816&oldid=8445731
📅 Vacations/Important dates
[edit]https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Staff_handbook/Benefits#US_Holidays https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/People_Corner/Global_Guidelines#Holidays
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
This week and next
[edit]- This week: Dan, Jaime
- Fri: U.S. Fourth of July Holiday (observed) (US Staff with reqs); Tyler's sabbatical starts
- Mon: Andre
- Next week: Jaime
- Jul 3: U.S. Fourth of July Holiday (observed) (US Staff with reqs)
- Jul 6 Mon: Andre public holiday
- Jul 6–Aug 31: Tyler sabbatical!
- Jul 1-14: Jaime Vacation
- July 13th-17th: Antoine extended holiday (Bastille's day)
- Jul 15-31: Jaime Spain (internet less stable)
- Jul 14Tue - 21Tue: Andre OoO (Spain)
- July ~21(24?) - Aug 5ish: Jeena judo training in Japan
- July 21th-28th - Antoine in Paris, working there + meeting Wikimania folks in the evening
- Aug 3-7: Dan vacation
- Aug 10: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (observed) (Global holiday)
- Aug 11 Tue: Andre OoO
- Aug 30-Sep 9: Brennen in BRC
- September - October: Bryan sabattical
- Sep 07: U.S. Labor Day (US Staff with reqs)
- Sep 16-20: Brennen 🪕
- Oct 12: Columbus Day (also Indigenous Peoples' Day) (US Staff with reqs)
- Nov 11: Veterans' Day (US Staff with reqs)
- Nov 26: U.S. Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)
- Nov 27: Day after U.S. Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)
- Dec 24–Jan 1 2026: End of year holiday (Global holiday)
🔥🚂 Train & Clinic duty
[edit]- https://versions.toolforge.org/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Clinic_duty
PAST
[edit]- 27 Apr – 1.46.0-wmf.26 – Jeena, Dan
- Out: Brennen, Andre
- 04 May – 1.47.0-wmf.1 – Brennen, Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423910
- Out:
- 11 May – 1.47.0-wmf.2 – Andre, Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423911
- Out: Antoine
- Learnings: EventBus errors become UBNs
- 18 May – 1.47.0-wmf.3 – Antoine, Andre https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423912
- Out:
- 25 May – 1.47.0-wmf.4 – Jaime, Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423913
- Out:
- 01 Jun – 1.47.0-wmf.5 – Ahmon, Jaime https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423914
- Out:
- 08 Jun – 1.47.0-wmf.6 – Dan, Jaime https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423915
- Out: Ahmon
- 15 Jun – 1.47.0-wmf.7
- Train: Jeena
- Clinic Duty: Dan
- Out: Andre (Thu, Fri), US staff w/reqs (Fri)
- 22 Jun - 1.47.0-wmf.8
- Train: Brennen
- Clinic Duty: Jeena
- Out: Ahmon (Mon)
NOW and NEXT
[edit]- 29 Jun - 1.47.0-wmf.9
- Train: Andre
- Clinic Duty: Brennen
- Out: Dan, Jaime
- 06 Jul – 1.47.0-wmf.10
- Train: Antoine
- Clinic Duty: Andre
- Out: Jaime, Andre (Mon)
- 13 Jul – 1.47.0-wmf.11
- Train: Jeena
- Clinic Duty: Antoine
- Out: Jaime; Andre (Wed-Fri)
- 20 Jul – 1.47.0-wmf.12
- Train: Ahmon
- Clinic Duty: Jeena
- Out: jeena; Andre (Mon-Tue)
- 27 Jul – 1.47.0-wmf.13
- Train: Dan
- Clinic Duty: Ahmon
- Out: jeena
- 03 Aug – 1.47.0-wmf.14
- Train: Jaime
- Clinic duty: Jeena
- Out: Dan
- 10 Aug – 1.47.0-wmf.15
- Train: Brennen
- Clinic duty: Jaime
- Out: Everyone Monday, Andre Tue
- 17 Aug – 1.47.0-wmf.16
- Train: Andre
- Clinic duty: Brennen
- Out:
- 24 Aug – 1.47.0-wmf.17
- Train: Antoine
- Clinic duty: Andre
- Out:
- 31 Aug – 1.47.0-wmf.18
- Train: Ahmon
- Clinic duty: Antoine
- Out: Brennen
- 07 Sep – 1.47.0-wmf.19
- Train: Dan
- Clinic duty: Ahmon
- Out:
- 14 Sep – 1.47.0-wmf.20
- Train: Jaime
- Clinic duty: Dan
- Out:
Team Discussions
[edit]- Did Tyler get an extension on ITC? Got an ITC email saying "08/07" (no clue how to parse that)
- Andre says: http://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240266#11909900 kinda welcomes an answer from RelEng
Sabbatical plans
- Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jGrRMw7CzOLz7DzeNYLVmXTo8Z-vHi3XPaIZjbourj4/edit?tab=t.0
- Contact: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TCipriani_(WMF)/Continuity (still not aligned with ^, FYI)