Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20191127

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2019-11-27

Vacations/Important dates

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

Train

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 Brennen + Dan
• 9 Dec - wmf.10 - Dan + James
• 16 Dec - wmf.11 - James + Jeena
• 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 - Jeena + Lars
• 13 Jan - wmf.15 - Lars + Antoine

SoS

• Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business

Timespent spreadsheet

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

• No spreadsheet this week: we were at techconf and in various states of travel and travel-hangover
  • reminder: your time spent doesn't need to total to 100%

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • Happening 2019-12-10
  • You should have an invite
  • https://google.github.io/eng-practices/review/reviewer/
  • Ž: It's scheduled for 30 minutes. Didn't we agree the last time that we need 60 minutes even for articles?
  • 45 minutes? This article seems shorter
  • Resolution: let's shoot for 30 but be efficient

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - November '19 edition

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

Incoming/Needs attention

• New workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4360/ -- make sure your tasks look right

TechConf/Offsite followups

• Amalgamation in progress...

Scrum of Scrums for next week

Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

• Blocking:
  • Product Infrastructure: to create node10/buster images for Proton service migration phab:T237911
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: no train because of team offsite
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group0 only because of Thanksgiving
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group1 + group2

Callouts

• Release Engineering - unusual train schedule:
  • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group0 only because of Thanksgiving
  • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2

Outgoing next week

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group0 only because of Thanksgiving
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - phab:T233856 - group1 + group2
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10 - phab:T233858

Callouts

• Release Engineering - unusual train schedule:
  • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.8 - group1 + group2
  • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.10
  • December 23-January 3rd - No deploys (including train), Holiday break

Train status and happenings

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

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our kanban board!
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4105/

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
  • Tech conf / offsite was nice
• Worst thing
  • Jetlag, you can imagine ;D
  • Missed some topics
• What I planned vs did
• Unplannned

This week

• What I plan to do
  • Backlog grooming!
  • Quibble pending reviews
• Blockers

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
  • Tech conference / offsite
• Worst thing
  • Tech conference / offsite
• What I planned vs did
  •  Done Fly home from Atlanta
  •  Done 1.35.0-wmf.8 to group 0
  •  Done Fill out some surveys
• Unplannned
  • Minor updates to train / places to watch for breakage documentation
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwlog1001
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous_deployment/Train_deploys#Places_to_Watch_for_Breakage
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_binaries#logspam-watch (nice!!)

This week

• What I plan to do
  • dev-images:
    • stretch-php72: Add PHP redis and mysql-client plus some utils to dependencies
    • Update stretch dependencies
• Blockers

Other

• Snow.

Dan

Last week

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

This week

• What I plan to do
• Blockers

Greg

Last week

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

This week

• What I plan to do
• Blockers

James

Last week

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

This week

• What I plan to do
• Blockers

Jean-Rene

Last week

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

This week

• What I plan to do
• Blockers

Jeena

Last week

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

This week

• What I plan to do
• Blockers

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Got home.
• Worst thing
  • Have jet lag.
• What I planned vs did
  • Participated in TechConf and EngProd offsite.
• Unplanned
  • Started drafting a Wikipedia architecture document.
    • May have managed to mostly offload it to Will Doran.

This week

• What I plan to do
  • Set up git repo for PGP public keys on Gerrit, for keysigning. Name suggestions welcome.
    • pgp-public-keys.git?
    • wmf-pgp-keys.git? (tthcipriani: too limiting for volunteers)
    • all-your-keys-are-belong-to-liw.git?
    • pennyworth.git?
  • Read TechConf and offsite notes, extract any useful bits.
  • Ponder SRE input on new CI from TechConf. Discuss with Tyler, Dan.
  • Do an Argo test deployment.
  • Start work on documenting pipelinelib so it can be re-implemented for new CI.
    • With Dan.
• Blockers
  • Tired.

Other

• Three trips a year. Usually over a week of jet lag there and another over a week when I get back home. That's a total of about two months of jet lag per year. Not happy about that, but probably can't be avoided.

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
  • Team offsite
• Worst thing
  • Team offsite
• What I planned vs did
  • Planned: not much
  • Did: travel, etc.

This week

• What I plan to do
  • Vacation and Holiday and generally not be working
• Blockers
  • I seem to be working anyway (Workohol, you foul beast!)
• Unplannned
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T239355
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rPHABefc7de14fe4a39e6760c55a240b1e4218e648d0e

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • being home
• Worst thing
  • travelling home
• What I planned vs did
• Unplannned
  • exhaustion

This week

• What I plan to do
  • Mandatory trainings
  • Hiring reviews
  • Offsite TODO amalgamation
• Blockers
  • Thanksgiving

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • NBA game :D
• Worst thing
  • jetlag :(
• What I planned vs did
  •  Done travel home, jetlag
• Unplannned

This week

• What I plan to do
  • catch up on gerrit/phabricator/mail
  • Selenium documentation updates
• Blockers

Other

• Should I still attend this meeting? I'm happy to be here. Just asking if it makes sense.
• Can't make it to bookclub meeting :(