Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200311

2020-03-11

Vacations/Important dates

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

Train

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

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• 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
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.22 - phab:T233870
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - phab:T233871
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - phab:T233872

Callouts

• 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

Incoming/Needs attention

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247036
  • Was used for "get stats from CI into logstash"? Might be able to disable for now.
• Do we as RelEng need to do anything about SRE moving to use VictorOps?
  • Filed as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T247427

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • Add new suggestions ^

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition

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

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

CapEx budget

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

Q4 Planning

• • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

• 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

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

Antoine

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

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

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

Last week

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

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• 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

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

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

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

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

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

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

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn