Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20191106


2019-11-06 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • November 1 (All Saints' Day): Željko, Antoine 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 (+ everyone?)
  • 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 - Group0 on Tuesday Brennen + Mukunda (Thanksgiving)
  • 2 Dec - wmf.8 part 2 - Wednesday Group1 + Thursday Group2
  • 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
    • reminder: your time spent doesn't need to total to 100%

Clinic Duty Proposal edit

November Offsite/Summit edit

Book club edit

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - November '19 edition edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • branch.py for cutting the branch for train
  • logspam-watch for tailing logfiles

November 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

  • Blocked:
  • Updates:
    • Train Health
      • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.4 - phab:T233852
      • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.5 - phab:T233853 - last train before two week break
      • Next week: no train because of Wikimedia Technical Conference

Callouts edit

Train status and happenings edit

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

Grant Q&A edit

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly+Grant