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2020-01-22 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 1 January (New Year's Day): Staff with reqs, Lars
  • 2 January: Lars
  • 2–3 January: James, Thcipriani
  • 2–10 January: Dan
  • 6 January: probably Lars (public holiday because it's been N days since Xmas)
  • 24 January: MModell (worked through the holiday on Monday, taking it on Friday)
  • [some dates TBC]: Antoine
  • 19–25 January: Lars working from LA
  • 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs (US staff only?)
  • 27–31 January: All Hands
  • 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
  • 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
  • 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
  • 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs
  • 1 May (May Day): Lars
  • 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
  • 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): Staff with reqs

Rotating positions edit

Train edit

Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates


  • 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 + Brennen
  • 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
  • 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
  • 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
  • 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
  • 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
  • 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
  • 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
  • 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Brennen + Antoine
  • 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
  • 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
  • 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
  • 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
  • 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars

SoS edit

  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business edit

Incoming/Needs attention edit

All-Hands edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2020/Conference_Schedule

  • Monday: "Department day" in the afternoon
  • Tuesday: "Team day" in the afternoon
  • Think about people you want to reach out to face-to-face
    • Thursday has "Open time"
    • Friday is "Unconference"

Book club edit

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - January '20 edition edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • branch.py is in regular use (did we add this already?)


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

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Train Health
      • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - phab:T233864
      • Next week: No deploys at all (including train), Wikimedia Foundation All Hands - phab:T233865
Callouts edit
  • Release Engineering
    • January 27-31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
    • The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Outgoing next week edit

  • No SoS because of All Hands
Callouts edit

Train status and happenings edit

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

Standup! edit

Our Workboards edit

Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit

Brennen edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • branch.py seems to work.
  • Worst thing
    • Our cat is sick.

What's on your workboard edit


Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Daughter started crawling!
  • Worst thing
    • Childproofing

What's on your workboard edit


Greg edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • TRIGGER WARNING: IRC/Slack/Matrix
      • Introduced OIT/Brendan to Michael Hoye of Mozilla re chat evaluation
      • He just introduced them to the lead person at Matrix
        • nice. :) thcipriani +1
  • Worst thing
    • metrics finding for the tuning session

What's on your workboard edit

James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Caught up on e-mail and actually responded to people.
  • Worst thing
    • Got ill, briefly.

What's on your workboard edit


Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • I think my tree fern spores are germinating!
  • Worst thing
    • kfjsghjkfg ugh

What's on your workboard edit


Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Los Angeles weather and sunshine
  • Worst thing
    • Airplanes
    • Airports
    • Flights
    • Travel
    • Jet lag

What's on your workboard edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Seemingly out of the woods with Phabricator stuff
  • Worst thing
    • Lost a lot of time rotating credentials and writing a 2fa invalidator. Also worked through a holiday on Monday to get everything ready to deploy with tonight's Phabricator upgrade.
      • :-(
      • :/

What's on your workboard edit


Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • no cone dog
  • Worst thing
    • structural violence

What's on your workboard edit


Zeljko edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Signed my contract 📜
  • Worst thing
    • Closing my company 👔

What's on your workboard edit

What's on no-one's workboard edit

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