Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200325
2020-03-25
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
- 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, maybe
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
- 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
- time, details, etc TBD
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (waiting to cancel the reservation until airbnb extends its covid policy))
Rotating positions
editTrain
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 (and Antoine, apparently :-))
- 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
- 27 Apr - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine
- 4 May - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 11 May - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
- 18 May - wmf.6 - Dan + James (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
- 25 May - wmf.7 - James + Jeena
- 1 Jun - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
- 8 Jun - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
- 15 Jun - wmf.10 - Brennen + Antoine
- 22 Jun - wmf.11 - Antoine + Mukunda
= Status
editSoS
edit- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
editSoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- [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.23 - phab:T233871
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - phab:T233872
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - phab:T233873
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] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
Team Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
editBook club
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- Add new suggestions ^
- Email Soon™
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- HOLD **
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 [March 2020?] more refined Key Results
- C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week
Q4 Planning
editStandup!
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
TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
Antoine
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Math.
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
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- A strange hopefulness that after the COVID-19 outbreak has passed, people will realize we can make drastic and immediate change to solve big existential problems like climate change.
- Worst thing
- Dread that we're doomed.
What's on your workboard
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James
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Communications failure
- It's been a week since I've left the house. Halp.
What's on your workboard
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Jeena
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- my foot bath arrived
- Worst thing
- it broke T.T
What's on your workboard
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Lars
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Pushed three changes to Gerrit for Scap
- Worst thing
- People
What's on your workboard
editMukunda
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248273 is really weird and I can't explain it
What's on your workboard
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Tyler
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Hiring moving forward
- Working with JR + Will on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Worst thing
- Not knowing what to do with beans
- Due to a great article: https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/01/ideas-for-cooking-dried-beans-best-heirloom-beans-rancho-gordo-alternatives.html I have a lot of beans
- I can only eat so much bean soup
- If you have lentils you can make mjudderah (make sure to add lots of cumin!), it's great with cucumber tomato salad and yogurt!
- I have a good kale tuscan soup recipe (made with cannellini beans)
- Homemade baked beans are better than canned ones
- As are homemade refried beans
- Not knowing what to do with beans
What's on your workboard
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Zeljko
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- 5 am Coronavirus solo half-marathon during earthquake 😱 https://www.strava.com/activities/3205610326
- Worst thing