Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20190819
2019-08-19
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 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
editTrain
edit- 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
edit- July 24: James
- July 31: Mukunda
- Aug 7: Mukunda
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko
Team Business
editTimespent spreadsheet
edit- For the avoidance of doubt: fill out the sheet week number for the previous week
- spreadsheet for week 33: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UEmjIbv6voTF5bOnHdjOltw47AwPDtnmUo0h78wgYDY/edit#gid=721614712
November Offsite/Summit
edit- 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
edit
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - August '19 edition
edit- 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)
- https://time.releng.team ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Incoming/Needs attention
edit- Wikipedia.org portal weekly update blocked on: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213806
- Done TODO thcipriani reply
- Moving pages on wiki results in lowered article counts: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212706
- Done TODO tags core-platform
Scrum of Scrums
editIncoming from last week
editOutgoing this week
edit- Blocked by:
- Core Platform Team:
- MediaWiki installer silently ignores invalid extensions https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225512
- Core Platform Team:
- Blocking:
- —
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.34.0-wmf.17 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220742 — fully deployed
- This week: 1.34.0-wmf.19 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220744
- Next week:
- Code Health
- Log Health
- Train Health
Callouts
edit- Release Engineering
Train status and happenings
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Standup!
edit- Make sure your tasks are correct on our kanban board!
Antoine
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- Done Vacation
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Brennen
edit- Planned vs. did last week:
- In progress Zuul v3 proof-of-concept
- Done Some code review on local-charts changes
- What I plan to do this week
- Finish and document Zuul v3 PoC
- Return to various local-charts image fixes
- Reviews and testing as needed for local dev stuff
- Other?
- Shifting some hours to leave early Friday afternoon for a funeral in Kansas.
- In Monday and Tuesday of next week, then gone until roughly 4th Sept.
Dan
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Greg
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
James
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jean-Rene
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- What I plan to do this week
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Jeena
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- Done fix restbase chart
- In progress exploring using GKE cluster w/ beta labs
- Not done fill in timespent sheet
- Done review Mukunda's patchset to local charts
- What I plan to do this week
- create mw instance in labs
- deploy mathoid to gke && setup dns/firewall
- fill in timespent sheet
- fix broken parsoid
- try to contact Marko again
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Lars
edit- What I planned vs did week of Aug 5
- Done Attend RelEng team weekly meeting.
- Done Attend Code Review WG meeting.
- Not done Attend RelEng watercooler. (Surprise meeting conflict.)
- Done Attend SSD sync-up meeting.
- Not done Have weekly chat with Tyler. (Surprise vacation conflice.)
- 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.
- 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.
- When making plans for last week, I'd forgotten I'd away Thu/Fri, which interfered with me getting things done.
Mukunda
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- developers developers developers...
- Done deploy phabricator
- Done lots of learning golang, local-charts work
- What I plan to do this week
- local-charts
- fix `local-charts status`
- merge existing stuff
- add naming releases
- add updating releases
- running install script
- phatality
- Get the prototype ready for deployment
- local-charts
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
Tyler
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- Done Tech managers meeting notes/CI evaluation meeting/meetings meetings
- Not done Working on deployment calendar auto-generation
- Done Last of scap for PHP7 work
- Not done Send an email on my thoughts about timeline for CI evaluation
- What I plan to do this week
- Review sonar cloud reporting task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217008#5296569
- Fix pipelinelib base charts
- Gerrit 2.15.15, fix tests...dunno what's happening
- (stretch) deploy Gerrit 2.15.15
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- Blazey's Dad is having health problems, I'm on my own this week with a 9 week old puppy
Zeljko
edit- What I planned vs did last week
- Planned to chatch up on all the things. Successfully completed.
- What I plan to do this week
- 1.34.0-wmf.19 deployment blockers https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220744
- Cypress testing framework evaluation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230729
- What I'm blocked on
- Other?
- Kosta asking for advice from Tyler for: Report results from SonarCloud to Gerrit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217008#5296569
- https://time.releng.team is AWESOME!
- Need advice on how to get a small dog to eat his medications.