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2020-02-12 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
  • 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
    • these seem to always only be US staff
      • correct, non-US (SafeGuard) staff have their own local holidays, please add those to this list! :)
      • It depends on your country; some staff have all US plus all local.
  • 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
  • 15 May: Jeena
  • 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - 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

From 2/5

^ thcipriani + Dan to pair next week

From 2/12

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!
  • Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests

Annual Planning for July 2019–June 2020 edit

If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again

  • Initiative: Modernize Testing and Deployment Pipeline
    • Key Deliverable: Strengthen next generation testing and deployment pipeline to support more services, code health indicators, and local development.
      • Program1:
        • All applicable new and existing services (and partially MediaWiki) exist in the Deployment Pipeline
        • Team(s): Engineering Productivity, SRE/Service Operations, Core Platform
      • Program2:
        • Actionable code health metrics are provided for code stewards
        • Team: Engineering Productivity
      • Program3:
        • Provide a standardized local MediaWiki development environment
        • Team: Engineering Productivity
      • Program4:
        • Create a mobile phone performance testing lab
        • Team: Performance (maybe OIT, we are still dicussing)

New way of expressing "core" work (maintenance) as ERF (Excellence and Resilience Framework), which will have OKRs too.

  • For us, we'll be all under the Software ERF; this will cover gerrit, Phabricator, legacy CI, train deployments, …

ACTION: Everyone tell Tyler in 1:1s what they need from other teams and budgets

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

Callouts edit

Outgoing next week edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Train Health
      • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
      • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
      • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - [[phab:T233869]
Callouts edit

Train status and happenings edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

Standup! edit

Our Workboards edit

Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit

Brennen edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Phabricator pairing and glimpses into other teams' workings
  • Worst thing
    • ADHD and ambient train anxiety

What's on your workboard edit


Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Witnessing the remediation of wmf.18 by all our skilled folks, Mukunda et al.
  • Worst thing
    • Witnessing wmf.18 blowing up the world and feeling powerless to do anything about it.

What's on your workboard edit


Greg edit

Last week edit

What's on your workboard edit

James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Getting tests for Parsoid/PHP deployments done.
  • Worst thing
    • Travel disruption for people who were still in the office (HK/China; UK).

What's on your workboard edit


Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • I'm excited to go to Portugal!
  • Worst thing
    • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What's on your workboard edit


Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Bought toys, and then more toys
  • Worst thing
    • Will need to buy even more toys to make first toy a nice toy (I probably can't be trusted with a credit card)

What's on your workboard edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

What's on your workboard edit


Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Mental reset day
  • Worst thing
    • Planning to plan

What's on your workboard edit


Zeljko edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Seen a movie with my wife. 🍿
  • Worst thing
    • Family sick. 🤕

What's on your workboard edit

What's on no-one's workboard edit

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