Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200325


2020-03-25 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)
  • 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 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 (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 edit

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

SoS edit

  • 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

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

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing edit

Callouts edit


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

    • HOLD **

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

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
    • Math.

What's on your workboard edit


Dan edit

Last 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 edit


James edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
  • Worst thing
    • Communications failure
    • It's been a week since I've left the house. Halp.

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Jeena edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • my foot bath arrived
  • Worst thing
    • it broke T.T

What's on your workboard edit


Lars edit

Last week edit

  • Best thing
    • Pushed three changes to Gerrit for Scap
  • Worst thing
    • People

What's on your workboard edit

Mukunda edit

Last week edit

What's on your workboard edit


Tyler edit

Last week edit

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Zeljko edit

Last week edit

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What's on no-one's workboard edit