Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200812
2020-08-12 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
- 21 August Mukunda day off
- 31 August Lars day off
- tbd: Brennen camping at some point
- 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
- 1 Sep: Lars day off
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day
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
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
- Group2 on Wednesday US
- 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
- 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
- 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
- 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
- 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Ahmon
- 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
- Group2 on Wednesday US
- 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
- 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
- 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
- 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
- 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
- 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
- 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine
Status edit
SoS edit
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit
SoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.3 - phab:T257971
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.4 - phab:T257972
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - phab:T257973
Callouts edit
- Release Engineering
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
- "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
- scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member organization. For the upcoming KubeCon EU 2020 event (2020-08-17 through 2020-08-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets. This is the first ever virtual KubeCon, so I can't vouch for the value of the event, but past KubeCon events have been enjoyed by many Foundation Engineering staff who are interested in Kubernetes, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, and similar devops/SRE topics.
- Conference information:
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/>
- Registration:
<https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/register/>
Individual Tuning Sessions edit
<3
Book club/Lunch and Learn edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- 2020-08-17: Quibble with Antoine Musso
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Aug '20 edition edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
- After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.
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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority
TODO Triage! edit
Ahmon edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Status: Working on train-dev with Lars. Cultural orientation meetings this week (overlapping with releng meetings)
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Chocolate ice cream
- Worst thing
- Long test cycles
What's on your workboard edit
Antoine edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Dishing out backlog of tasks. Otherwise train going fine
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Relatively calm trains
- Worst thing
- Aluminum rain gutters
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan edit
- Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- We are house hunting.
- Worst thing
- We are house hunting in the SF Bay Area.
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
- Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (sick)
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Monitor works again
- Worst thing
- RIP fishy
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority
- Some reviews in my inbox waiting for me
Lars edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Train-dev development is making progress
- Cat guest
- Worst thing
- My Scap tests started failing because I made a small change to the testing tool and it was too hard to debug (fixed now)
- Cat guest
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority
- My tasks are not entirely up to date, but I try to not be overwhelmed by them
Mukunda edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Aphlict is really working now
- Worst thing
- I think our team has the dubious honor of longest, ugliest and maybe even most confusing phabricator tag:
- Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (Release-Engineering-Team-TODO (2020-07-01 to 2020-09-30 (Q1)))
- I think our team has the dubious honor of longest, ugliest and maybe even most confusing phabricator tag:
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Tuning conversations: useful, I think!
- Aphlict back!
- Worst thing
- Houses are so. much. work.
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing