Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-02-02
2022-02-02 edit
โจValuesโจ edit
Spoiler: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team#Values
- Integrity
- quality
- freedom and open
- developer focus
- #together
ERC Update edit
- Thcipriani is the point of contact
- The goal is to create Communication guidelines
- "public" page
๐ Wins edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Jan '22 edition
- New release of Java Gearman plugin
- Gerrit upgrade! (3.3.6 โ 3.3.9)
- Ahmon debugging of contint1001
- mwcli coolest tool honorable mention
- Production benchmarks of yaml parsing for MW
- New test environment progress for GitLab
- Plan for trusted runners coming together
- Scap prep auto working in beta (on the way to prod)
- Gerrit 3.3โ3.4 prework to solve javascript incompat
- CI-agents upgrade prep for stretch -> bullseye
- MWCLI progress and GoLand for IntelliJ
- Feb '22 edition
- logspam-watch is fast now because Ahmon is good at computers and can tolerate modifying Perl
- Wrapping up MediaWiki settings loader expedition cachingโabstractions for MediaWiki config settingsโthey can declare how they're cached and how long (with probablistic early expiry to help with lock contention)
- Mukunda has freed himself from train :D
๐ถ Let's keep this empty edit
๐ Vacations/Important dates edit
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
February edit
- 1 Feb: Jaime's first day!
- 7-11 Feb: Antoine
- 8-(+2-3 days?) Feb: Dan is out for a minor surgery
- 9-11 Feb: Brennenโsitting in a hot spring
- 21 Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day (US Staff with reqs)
March edit
- 18 Mar: U.S. March Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
๐ Onboarding Jaime edit
- Doc: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding/Jaime
- Task list: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5631/
- ^^ SOO EMPTY ๐ฉ
- Please add tasks!
๐ Book club/๐ฑ Lunch and Learn edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn
๐ฅ๐ Train edit
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
- 8 Nov - wmf.8 - NO TRAIN (Veteran's day Nov 11)
- 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
- 22 Nov - wmf.10 - NO TRAIN
- 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Brennen + Jeena
- 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
- 27 Dec - wmf.15 - NO TRAIN
- 3 Jan - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 10 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
- 17 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
- 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
- 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 7 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon TODO: thcipriani fix tasks
- 14 Feb - wmf.22 - Antoine + Jeena
- 21 Feb - wmf.23 - Dan + Antoine (President's day on Monday)
- 28 Feb - wmf.24 - Brennen + Dan
- 6 Mar - wmf.25 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 13 Mar - wmf.26 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine
- 20 Mar - wmf.27 - Dan + Jaime
- 27 Mar - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Dan
๐ค Train update email edit
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email
- https://wheelofnames.com/#
- https://trainbow.toolforge.org
- Sent by train conductor next week
Train Risky Patches Ideas edit
Team Intros edit
Two Truths and a Lie
- Write three delcarative statements about yourself (7mins)
- We'll go through person-by-person and vote for the one WE THINK is a lie (by adding +1) by it
- The big reveal
- Ahmon
- I wrote an NFS server for Windows in Common Lisp. +
- I raise pigeons in my backyard + ++ +
- My favorite food is burrito ++
- Antoine
- We are twin brothers hence why we are there from 9am to midnight+++++ ++
- We have erased the english wikipedia database +
- We have learned skateboarding at 40 years old
- Brennen
- I am wearing something made out of a bison. ++
- I have never eaten whale.+++++
- I have published research in an academic journal.+
- Dan
- I once used up all available nine frames in the Animation Land feature of Mario Paint to have Yoshi blink as smoothly as the platform would allow.
- I enjoy naming things.+++ +
- I just told a lie. ++
- Jeena
- I completed dark cave in pokemon red without using HM flash +
- I hate slimy foods+++++
- I saw a pet monkey in the middle of Tokyo ++
- Jaime
- I can whistle the flight of the bumblebee ++
- I used to be the vocalist in a band
- Italian people get mad at me frequently when I cook pasta+ + ++++
- Mukunda
- I have contributed ruby code to the Puppet project.
- I play guitar, bass, cello, drums and keyboards.
- My new job is really building NFT tech for a gaming startup.+ ++ +++ +
Temi
- I thought I was going to be an industrial engineer and started studying towards that
- Food and I are best friends + + +
- I am adventurous and outgoing. + +
- Tyler
- I am nationally award-winning homebrewer +
- I have contributed JavaScript to the Bootstrap framework + +
- I was in a tornado when I was 8 years old +