Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200304
2020-03-04 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
- 19–23 March: James in DC
- 30 March–3 April: James (NH)
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
- 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
- For now, I would suggest to hold off on purchasing extra tickets for others to join you on the trip until we hear more from Travel.
- 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 - 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
- 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
SoS edit
- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
- Code health metrics group asks what's Gerrit update schedule?
- We're at 2.15. Is there a plan to upgrade to 2.16? I've found https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739
- Is there plan to update to 3.0/3.1? https://www.gerritcodereview.com/releases-readme.html (I couldn't find a task in Phabricator.)
- They need it for Gerrit inline comments from Sonarcloud. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217008
2020-02-26 edit
Book club edit
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- …
Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021 edit
If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
- Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
- By end of the month more refined Key Results
- C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week
Leveling edit
- This week's 1:1s
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 by:
- SRE ServiceOps: For the work to migrate wikimedia-portals to Docker (phab:T238747), we need an official base image for serving Web pages, either the same as future-MW (phab:T238774) or a simpler one
- Blocking:
- [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
- Updates:
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - phab:T233871
Callouts edit
- Release Engineering
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
Train status and happenings edit
Standup! edit
- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards edit
- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Learning Phabricator code stuffs
- Worst thing
- The ambient terror of existing in early 2020
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Learning the words 'perne' and 'gyre', "perne in a gyre," poetry wikipedia:Sailing_to_Byzantium
- Seeing Antoine's face!
- Worst thing
- Witnessing the full weight and violence of the American aristocracy in its response to any degree of change for the common good
What's on your workboard edit
James edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Antoine!
- I'm not ill.
- Worst thing
- WFH.
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Hi Antoine!
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- seeing hashar online again
- Worst thing
- train rollback
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- We (Brennen and I) have a working search highlighting patch for Phabricator ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/D1179 ), working really well.
- Worst thing
- It's a tie between Corona the Virus and Corona the Beer.
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Antoine is back!
- Worst thing
- Super Tuesday
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Antoine! 🥖🍷🐌
- Local testing meetup 🎤
- Worst thing
- Sick kids 😷
- Taxes 💸