Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200226


2020-02-26 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
    • any news? train in mid-March?
  • 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
  • 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
  • 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
  • 24 April (Not-Easter): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 1 May (May Day): Lars
  • 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
  • 15 May: Jeena
  • 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone
  • 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)

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


  • 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 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
  • 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
  • 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen

TODO: thcipriani calendar updates

SoS edit

  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business edit

Incoming/Needs attention edit

From 2019-02-19 edit

  •   Done [James] T245054 Remote call on integration-agent-docker-1001 failed
    • Repooling thcipriani
    • if not...to the task
    • TODO: thcipriani: make runbook
  •   Done [James] T238224 Landing the Docker in core patch — I think we'll need a formal-ish release announcement when we merge it.
  •   Done [James] Eurgh Parsoid deploy strategy. Need meeting.
    •   Done James to make meeting. Tyler/Mukunda/James, Parsing, ?SRE Service Ops.

2020-02-26 edit

Book club edit

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests.
  • Scap release 1.13.0. \o/
  • Local development MediaWiki docker environment has shipped and been announced. yaay James, Brennen (also mostly Kosta)

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021 edit

If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again

ACTIONS:

Leveling 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

Callouts 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

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
    • There's a docker-compose.yml in mw/core, nothing has blown up yet.
  • Worst thing
    • I have been reading the news.

What's on your workboard edit


Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit



James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Getting docker-compose out of the door is great.
    • Also, the wmf.20 train was nice and quiet.
  • Worst thing
    • I nearly took down prod with an assumption about code being written in a safe way. Oops.

What's on your workboard edit


Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • "I'm doing the train this week"
  • Worst thing
    • see above

What's on your workboard edit


Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • etherpad2git
  • Worst thing
    • the light in the tunnel is an oncoming train

What's on your workboard edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

What's on your workboard edit

Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit


Zeljko edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • bookclub! 📚
    • software testing anti-patterns office hours 🎙
    • carnival! 🤡
    • bought tickets for Lisbon for my entire family ✈️
  • Worst thing
    • sick kids 🦠

What's on your workboard edit

What's on no-one's workboard edit