Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200311


2020-03-11 edit

Vacations/Important dates edit

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
  • 19–23 March: James in DC
  • 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) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
  • 14-15 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 (maybe))

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

= Status edit

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

SoS edit

  • 2019-08-14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit

Outgoing edit

  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
    • [All] Beta Cluster Parsoid service is not currently working; sorry! Work underway to fix this in phab:T246833.
  • Updates:

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.


Team Business edit

Incoming/Needs attention 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!
  • scap has its first integration test

Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021 edit

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

CapEx budget edit

  • Gerrit: fine
  • Phab ??
  • Contint{1,2}001? fine
  • Integration labvirts? increase coming this fiscal?
  • New CI?
  • *shudders*...beta?

Q4 Planning edit

Standup! edit

Our Workboards edit


TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/


Antoine edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard edit

Brennen edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

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Dan edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • :)
  • Worst thing
    • :(

What's on your workboard edit


James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Hashar!
  • Worst thing
    • Gerrit clean-up. What fun. What joy.

What's on your workboard edit


Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

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Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Scap integration test merged and post-merge CI problems fixed
  • Worst thing
    • (at work): scap test suite doesn't run on jessie
    • (in life): corvid-19 pandemic

What's on your workboard edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Building an off-grid fridge ala fridge0.branchable.com/
  • Worst thing
    • corvid-19

What's on your workboard edit


Tyler edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Dog is starting to be agile
  • Worst thing
    • Weird gerrit 502s (only on apache side)

What's on your workboard edit


Zeljko edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • watercooler 😉
  • Worst thing
    • sick kids 🤒

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What's on no-one's workboard edit