Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200513

2020-05-13

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• 11 May - Mukunda vacation (use it or lose it)
• 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
• 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs, also Lars (swapped with 21st)

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

• 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
• 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 18 May - wmf.33 - NO TRAIN (virtual offsite)
• 25 May - wmf.34 - Mukunda + James
• 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
• 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
• 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
  • [Low priority] SRE Service Ops: Provide our special component/php72 in buster-wikimedia — T250515
  • [Low priority] Wikibase team: Fix WikibaseLexeme DB errors from phpunit tests – T249838, blocking T246358
  • [Low priority] Growth team: Fix Flow DB errors from phpunit tests – T249839, blocking T246358
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.32 - phab:T249964
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.33 - No train (EngProd virtual off-site)
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [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

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '20 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• The release train branch cut is now an automatic job
• Wikimedia Portals build and WDQS data release jobs moved to docker
• The Continuous Integration instances on WMCS have been fully migrated off Jessie! T236576
• Scap 1.14.0 released (by releng) and deployed (by serviceops)
• Setting up a local dev environment for Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Local_Dev_Environment

Virtual Offsite

• May 17-22
• Topics and activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fF191Fy80sZvFcOX3fVnqAVNnGZS0R9If1mE3HF5Plk/edit

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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
  • "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage!

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

• Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
  • Modulo occasional sessions to stare into space in the yard.

Last week

• Best thing
  • Collaboration with an attentive and responsive volunteer getting the train fixed.
• Worst thing
  • See above.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Deleting the last jessie boxes
• Worst thing
  • Bashing my head against GitHub's and gerrit's APIs.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 20 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • It's waffle with cream cheese and fruits season
  • deploying blubber
• Worst thing
  • I had a dream about having french toast but I don't have all the ingredients

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • scap apply-patches submitted to Gerrit
• Worst thing
  • It took way too much effort to get apply-patches done

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: ~40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • slack was down, lol
• Worst thing
  • tried to log on to slack

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: ~40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Pipeline meeting starting again/train local dev starting (I hope :))
• Worst thing
  • anticipating meeting defrag

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: 30-40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • GSOC 👩‍💻👨‍💻
• Worst thing
  • Closing the company. There's always one more thing to do. 🏦
  • Watercooler ⚰️ 😢

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn