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2019-10-23 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • October 8: Željko holiday (Independence Day)
  • October 11: Željko conference (https://2019.webcampzg.org/ )
  • October 14 (Indigenous Peoples' Day): US Staff
  • October 24–27: James at WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin
  • November 1 (All Saints' Day): Željko holiday
  • November 8–10: WikiCon North America (James)
  • November 11 (Veterans' Day): US Staff
  • November 12–15: TechConf19
  • November 16–20: Offsite
  • November 21-30: Jeena
  • November 25-29: Dan
  • November 28–29 (Thanksgiving): US Staff
  • December 1-2: Jeena
  • December 6: Lars (Finnish Independence Day)
  • December 25–31 (Christmas): US Staff
  • December 25–26: Lars, Željko, Christmas
  • 1 January (New Year's Day): US Staff, Lars, Željko
  • 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): US Staff

Rotating positions edit

Train edit

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R


  • 14 Oct - wmf.2 - Jeena + Lars
  • 21 Oct - wmf.3 - Lars + Brennen
  • 28 Oct - wmf.4 - Brennen + Mukunda
  • 4 Nov - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Antoine
  • 11 Nov - wmf.6 - No Train (Tech conf)
  • 18 Nov - wmf.7 - No Train (Off site)
  • 25 Nov - wmf.8 - Antoine + Jeena (Thanksgiving)
  • 2 Dec - wmf.9 - TBD
  • 9 Dec - wmf.10 - TBD
  • 16 Dec - wmf.11 - TBD
  • 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
  • 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
  • 6 Jan - wmf.14 - TBD
  • 13 Jan - wmf.15 - TBD

SoS edit

  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business edit

Timespent spreadsheet edit

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

Clinic Duty Proposal edit

November Offsite/Summit edit

Book club edit

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - October '19 edition edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!

October edit

Incoming/Needs attention edit

Scrum of Scrums for next week edit

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit

Incoming from last week (aka this morning) edit

Outgoing next week edit

Callouts edit

Train status and happenings edit

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


Standup! edit

Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Paired git fixage with Tyler for hmm lot of hours. Pair programming bash over Google Meet is a great experience.
    • For Wikibase.git : extracted Selenium to a standalone jobs ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232759 )
    • Quibble 0.0.39 for mediawiki/tools/api-testing (very cool project)
  • Worst thing
  • What I planned vs did
    • Switch integration/config to use jenkins-job-builder from pypi instead of our git repo
    • PostBuildScript jenkins plugin upgrade prepared
    • Nerd snipped on some weird logstash index fields limit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234564
  • Unplannned
    • Gerrit post migration magic (thank you Tyler!) (thcipriani: thank you!)

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • TechConf preparation with Kosta / WMDE-Fisch
  • Blockers
    • WMCS blocked: they need CI for a golang projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236203 (dduvall: we have a docker-pkg-built golang base image; see blubber's .pipeline/blubber.yaml)
    • php-xdebug needs upgrade (slows down phpunit coverage report)

Other edit

Brennen edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Pairing in general, messing with sshecret.
  • Worst thing
    • Moments of panic about logs prior to deploy.
  • What I planned vs did
    •   Done Make sure local-charts install script works on buster
    •   Done Further TechConf input, CI session planning
    •   In progress Train pairing
  • Unplannned
    • Some time investigating broken mediawiki/core dev images
    • Some time investigating toollabs to restart dockerregistry

This week edit

Other edit


Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Diagramming Seakeeper subsystems
  • Worst thing
    • Fixing janky Jenkins reports
      • starting in August, 30-day reports should be accurate
  • What I planned vs did
    • Seakeeper proposal, fleshed out descriptions of CI subsystems for proposed k8s namespaces
  • Unplannned

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • Seakeeper proposal, gathering capacity/resource utilization stats
  • Blockers

Other edit


Greg edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • The TechConf program committee is great to work with, even when we are stressed
  • Worst thing
    • Time constraint on the Tuning Session slide creation (which had knock off effects of figuring out what the hell these OKRs and metrics really are)
    • Effing moving
  • What I planned vs did
    • techconf
    • tuning session
  • Unplannned

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • tech conf schedule creation (well, version 2.0 of the schedule) and post it
    • engprod logistics setup
  • Blockers
    • time

Other edit

  • TechConf office hours happening next week on IRC, email going out shortly announcing them
  • Desire/stretch: create a homepage for Engineering Producitivity somewhere :)


James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Made progress discussing with Timo way forward for static configuration work; next step is autogenerating dblists from YAML.
  • Worst thing
    • Real jetlag for the first time in a few years. Meh.
  • What I planned vs did
  • Unplannned
    • Renamed "unversioned" PHP (PHP70) images to be explicit
      • Antoine: THANK YOU
    • Helping Analytics put a "stats for this site" link in the site footer T235803

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • WikiDataCon from tomorrow onwards; back in the US next Wednesday.
    • Whatever breaks.
    • YAML/static builds of dblists.
  • Blockers
    • —

Other edit

  • —


Jean-Rene edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing
  • What I planned vs did
  • Unplannned

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
  • Blockers

Other edit


Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • finished restrouter chart...hopefully \o/ \O/ \:D/
  • Worst thing
    • spent time trying to debug Visual Editor not working, unexpectedly there was an error in the browser console
  • What I planned vs did
    •  N Not done timespent spreadsheet
    •  N Not done work with zeljko on getting local-charts running - Željko: feel free to pospond until you're done with train
    •   In progress look at seakeeper proposal
    •   Done train
    •   Done update restrouter deployment-charts config for dev purposes
  • Unplannned
    • debug broken mw core image

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • tech conf session planning
    • changes to mw core image publish pipeline to log more and fail if prereq script errors
    • re-open patchsets to build restbase dev image
    • timespent spreadsheet
    • work with zeljko on getting local-charts running
    • ...
  • Blockers

Other edit

  • tiny sunflower


Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Going to TechConf
  • Worst thing
    • Not going to a mountain in TN
  • What I planned vs did
    •   Done Help Jeena with train, a little, as backup.
    •   Done Seek feedback on v3 of CI arch doc.
    •   Done Update engprod on PGP signing for offsite.
    •  N Not done Set up Argo in a K8s cluster somewhere.
      • Needs uninterrupted time, and I've been easily distractable. Also train.
  • Unplannned

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • Train, 1.35.0-wmf.3
    • Skim Go book, write a small program from scratch: fetch a web page, diff against previously fetched version.
    • Attempt to set up study groups, or possibly SIGs, for Go and Rust.
  • Blockers

Other edit

  • The Darkness is here until about March or April, expect SADness
  • performance has TT; releng has BB, DD, and MM; qte has no doubled initials
    • :-)
    • EngProd has GG :P
    • My "legal" name is Tyler Henry Turley-Cipriani, so TTish


Mukunda edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Phab1001 is up and running
  • Worst thing
    • Didn't get around to testing the "Ferret" Fulltext search engine in phab (yet)
  • What I planned vs did
    • Mostly   Done Finish getting branch.py ready for the wmf production branching (WIP: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/tools/release/+/543248/ )
    •   Done Try to build some tests for branch.py
    •   Done More work on phabricator high-availability & disaster recovery planning.
      • phab1001 should be nearly ready to become the primary server now.
    •  N Not done Test out phabricator's built-in search engine with an eye toward dropping elasticsearch if the integrated search performs as well.
  • Unplannned

This week edit

Other edit


Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Seeing the train pairing thing work :)
    • pairing with Antoine on Gerrit migration fallout
  • Worst thing
    • Gerrit migration fallout
  • What I planned vs did
    •   Done connect with SRE re New CI (again)
    •   Done Reach out to folks about being on Sr. SWE interview loop
    •   Done announce dec code freeze
    •   Done? tuning session prep
    •   Done Gerrit -> gerrit1001
  • Unplannned
    • Gerrit migration fallout
    • Updates to deployment-calendar scheduler -- awight noticed some issues

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • Resumé review
    • Work out clinic duty rotation
    • Next bookclub email
    • Gerrit/JVM tuning to make use of Moar Memory™
  • Blockers
    • Time
    • Dog
    • Blazey at conference

Other edit

  • Picking up Blazey at airport this evening, may cut out a bit early


Zeljko edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Email from Safeguard: "Please note: all documentation must be password protected from this point using the following (password)"
  • Worst thing
    • T236282 `npm run selenium` fails with `SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier`
  • What I planned vs did
    •   In progress T234610 ERROR webdriver: Request failed due to Error: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73
    •   In progress T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki
  • Unplannned
    • Safeguard
    • T235795 Create test for GrowthExperiments to check for ability to disable homepage
    • T233820 mediawiki/core Selenium tests fail when targeting mediawiki/vagrant VM
    • T236282 `npm run selenium` fails with `SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier`

This week edit

  • What I plan to do
    • T234610 ERROR webdriver: Request failed due to Error: session not created: Chrome version must be between 70 and 73
    • T199113 All repositories with Selenium tests should use wdio-mediawiki
  • Blockers

Other edit

  • Saw Rambo: Last Blood. Not recommended.
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