Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020527


2020-05-27 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 11 May - Mukunda vacation (use it or lose it)
  • 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs, also Lars (swapped with 21st)
  • 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
  • 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
  • 14 August (fill-in): US 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


  • 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
  • 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
  • 18 May - wmf.33 - NO TRAIN (virtual offsite)
  • 25 May - wmf.34 - Mukunda + James
  • 1 Jun - wmf.35 - James + Jeena
  • 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
  • 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
  • 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
  • 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status edit

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

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

Callouts edit

Team Business edit

Incoming/Needs attention edit

Book club edit

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '20 edition edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • The release train branch cut is now an automatic job
  • Wikimedia Portals build and WDQS data release jobs moved to docker
  • The Continuous Integration instances on WMCS have been fully migrated off Jessie! T236576
  • Scap 1.14.0 released (by releng) and deployed (by serviceops)
  • Setting up a local dev environment for Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Local_Dev_Environment
  • CI server (contint) migrated to buster!

Standup! edit

Our Workboards edit

TODO Triage! edit

Antoine edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week (I don't really track time)

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Jenkins & Zuul running on Buster / contint2001
  • Worst thing
    • Doxygen crashes when run inside Docker

What's on your workboard edit

Brennen edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Hackathon
  • Worst thing
    • Docker
    • neighborhood politics

What's on your workboard edit


Dan edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit


James edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • TMH hackathon fun. (And the offsite in general.)
  • Worst thing
    • Holiday weekends without any outside time.

What's on your workboard edit


Jeena edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 20 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Won a tea contest -- a contest where you make a scene with your tea-ware -- TODO: post picture in IRC
  • Worst thing
    • Everything's bad.

What's on your workboard edit


Lars edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • warm, sunny weather
  • Worst thing
    • noisy construction work across the road

What's on your workboard edit


Mukunda edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Got a phab local dev environment setup documented (kudos to Brennen for taking good notes!)
    • Train branching automation still seems to be working, yay
  • Worst thing
    • just about everything else

What's on your workboard edit


Tyler edit

  • Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Train session last week
    • Watercooler is back!
  • Worst thing
    • Short week + silent Friday == Cram all your meetings into 3 days

What's on your workboard edit


Zeljko edit

  • Current COVID19 status: XL hours/week

Last week edit

What's on your workboard edit

What's on no-one's workboard edit