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2019-08-12

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • July 22–August 9 - Željko vacation
  • July 27–August 18 - Antoine
  • August 5–16 - Greg vacation
  • August 7–22 - James off (inc. Wikimania)
  • August 8-9 - Lars vacation
  • August 12 - September 8 - Dan leave
  • August 12 (Glorious Twelfth) - US Staff
  • August 14–18 - Wikimania - Lars and Jean-Rene (and James in a personal capacity)
  • August 15 - Željko, Assumption of Mary
  • August 21-27: Lars vacation
  • August 28 - September 4 - Brennen vacation
  • September 2 (Labor Day) - US Staff
  • September 26 - October 1 - JR Vacation
  • September 27 - Mukunda
  • October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day) - US Staff
  • November 11  (Veterans' Day) - US Staff
  • November 28–29 (Thanksgiving) - US Staff
  • December 6 - Lars, Finnish Independence Day
  • December 25–31 (Christmas) - US Staff
  • December 25–26 - Lars, Christmas
  • 2020 January 1 (New Year's Day) - US Staff, Lars

Rotating positions

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Train

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Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
  • June 24 - wmf.11 - Jeena (with Mukunda)
  • July 1 - wmf.12 - No train (Fourth of July)
  • July 8 - wmf.13 - Jeena
  • July 15 - wmf.14 - Lars (with Antoine)
  • July 22 - wmf.15 - Lars
  • July 29 - wmf.16 - Brennen (with Tyler)
  • Aug 5 - wmf.17 - Brennen
  • Aug 12 - wmf.18 - No Train (Wikimania)
  • Aug 19 - wmf.19 - Zeljko 😱
  • Aug 26 - wmf.20 - Zeljko 😭
  • Sep 2 - wmf.21 - Antoine
  • Sep 9 - wmf.22 - Antoine
  • Sep 16 - wmf.23 - Mukunda
  • Sep 23 - wmf.24 - Mukunda
  • Sep 30 - wmf.25 - Tyler
  • Oct 7 - wmf.26 - Tyler
  • Oct 14 - 1.35.0-wmf.1 - 

SoS

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  • July 24: James
  • July 31: Mukunda
  • Aug 7: Mukunda
  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko

Team Business

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Timespent spreadsheet

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For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week

https://time.releng.team

November Offsite/Summit

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  • TechConf19: November 12–15
  • Offsite: November 16–20
    • Arrive the 15th
    • 16th is our fun day/outing
    • 17–20 are working days
    • 21st fly home


Book club

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Monthly reflection on accomplishments - August '19 edition

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Read only "gerrit-replica" active, handling 10% of all traffic (read from phab)


Incoming/Needs attention

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Scrum of Scrums

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Incoming from last week

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Outgoing this week

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Callouts

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  • Release Engineering


Train status and happenings

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


Standup!

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Antoine

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
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  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?

Brennen

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  • Planned vs. did last week:
  • What I plan to do this week
  • Other?


Dan

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?


Greg

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Vacation!
  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?

James

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
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  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?


Jean-Rene

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
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  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?


Jeena

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
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  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?


Lars

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  • What I planned vs did week of Aug 5
    •   Done Attend RelEng team weekly meeting.
    •   Done Attend Code Review WG meeting.
    •  N Not done Attend RelEng watercooler. (Surprise meeting conflict.)
    •   Done Attend SSD sync-up meeting.
    •  N Not done Have weekly chat with Tyler. (Surprise vacation conflice.)
    •  N Not done Evaluate my own CI PoC implementation against the CI requirements, PoC goals.
    •   In progress Continue discussion of CI WG PoC goals, evaluation.
    •   In progress Review, update CI arch document based on feedback, new thinking.
    •  N Not done Skim Go book.
    •   In progress Read Kubernetes book.
    •   Done Update the team docs page with what I know.
    •   Done Find how to use K8s containers as GitLab CI Runners.
  • What I additionally did:
    •   Done Met with James about my CI arch doc use case scenarios.
  • What I planned to do vs did week of Aug 12:
    •   Done CI PoC evaluation criteria meeting.
    •   Done Team weekly meeting.
    •   Done Watercooler meeting.
    •   Done SSD sync-up meeting.
    •   In progress Update CI arch doc v3 based on feedback from James, Tyler last week (in short: re-do most of the scenarios)
    •   In progress Read more of the Kubernetes book.
    •   Done Go to Wikimania (Thursday through Monday)
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Catch up on email on Tuesday
    • Watercooler meeting on Tuesday
    • SSD sync-up meeting on Tuesday
    • Holiday Wednesday through Friday
  • What I'm blocked on
    • Everything takes a long time
  • Other?
    • When making plans for last week, I'd forgotten I'd away Thu/Fri, which interfered with me getting things done.
      • I seem to have a curious blindness when reading calendars.
    • I'm returning from Wikimania on Monday, next week. Might not make it to the team weekly meeting, but if so will update my standup in Etherpad from the road.
    • The above notes written for last week's meeting, but updated for this meeting.
    • As you read this, I'm travelling home from Stockholm, and not in the meeting, sorry.

Mukunda

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?


Tyler

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  • What I planned vs did last week
  • What I plan to do this week
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  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?

Zeljko

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  • What I planned vs did last week
    • Planned to be on vacation. Successfully completed.
  • What I plan to do this week
    • Catch up on all the things o.O
  • What I'm blocked on
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  • Other?
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