Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200205
2020-02-05 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
- 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
- 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
- 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Europe, somewhere) - Everyone
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): Staff with reqs
Rotating positions edit
Train edit
- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates
- 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
- 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
- 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
- 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
- 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
- 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
- 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
- 9 Mar - wmf.23 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
- 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
- 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
- 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
- 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
- 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
SoS edit
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
For 2/12:
- Jenkins plugins security advisory - 2012-02-12 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244582
From 2/5
- API testing in core decisions (James mostly dealing) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236680
- Done ACTION: Tyler to e-mail CPT, CCing James, JR, Željko
- Gerrit branch cleanup/scap clean cleanup https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244368
- puppet hasn't run in beta for...a while (4291 minutes ago, ~3 days)
- Mukunda to take a look, see what's going on (if more than just differing puppet versions)
Book club edit
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
Scrum of Scrums for next week edit
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit
Incoming from last week (aka this morning) edit
- Blocked by:
- Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
Callouts edit
- Release Engineering
- Train blocked
- (Unknown team) - Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244019
- Core Platform Team - Argument 1 passed to Title::getLanguageConverter() must be an instance of Language, instance of StubUserLang given, called in /srv/mediawiki/php-1.35.0-wmf.18/includes/Title.php on line 207 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244300
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
- Train blocked
Outgoing next week edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.18 - phab:T233866
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
- Train Health
Callouts edit
Train status and happenings edit
WMF.18 blockers: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866
- phab:T244019 Inconsistent user permissions on Beta English Wikipedia
- appears to be minor enough to move forward unless things break more than is currently evident.
- Will move forward with the train (cautiously) and reassess that situation later.
Standup! edit
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards edit
- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Hanging out with y'all.
- Worst thing
- Sitting in rooms.
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Seeing all y'all
- Inventing Jimbo™️ ("Yo, Jimbo") over beers with Maryana/JR/Brennen/Zeljko/Greg and co
- Further work to come...
- Worst thing
- Not getting enough sleep following All Hands
What's on your workboard edit
Greg edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Seeing ya'll
- Worst thing
- I is a tired
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/
James edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- All Hands was lovely, as always.
- Worst thing
- All Hands was draining, as always (and not everyone has left yet).
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- all hands was a bit fun
- Worst thing
- :( Snaily
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Meeting people in person at All Hands
- Worst thing
- Airplanes
- Airports
- Flights
- Travel
- Jet lag
- More jet lag
- Forever jet lag
- There's no hope of a Zeppelin
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
- Board and tasks up to date
- Nothing much has happened on tasks, due to Jet Hands and All lag
- Not entirely well, not very productive this week
- Is anyone else interested in a threat modelling exercise with the security team?
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
- Ž: please suggest Wikimedia's got talent as an idea for next year talent show format 😉
- Almost certainly the talent show at all hands. The rest of you are cool and all but damn... wikimedia's got talent.
- Worst thing
- my bad attempt at OKR humor: https://groups.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/d/msg/foundation-optional/7WQHTPBGJUw/PxJ030I1AwAJ
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- World Championship of Ping Pong 🏓
- Worst thing
- "Travelling east by six to nine time zones causes the biggest problems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_lag#Management_after_travelling_east 🥱