Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200708
2020-07-08
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
- 6-10 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time
- 6-8 July: Ahmon out
- July 11th - 26th: Antoine out
- July 13th,22-24: Tyler out
- 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
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
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
- Group2 on Wednesday US
- 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
- 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
- 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
- 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
- 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine + Ahmon?
Status
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SoS
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
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669
Callouts
edit- 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
- "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
- scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924
Team Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
edit- CI pipeline/job to build and release helm chart artifacts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257333
- Mukunda: any updates on Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255761 (an intern and a volunteer are blocked on it) - working on it 👍
Individual Tuning Sessions
editGet started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Book club/Lunch and Learn
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
- Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
- Cassandra Docker image
Q1 Planning
edit- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
- Due July 10th
- Thcipriani to add top-level
Standup!
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 (2020-04 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!
editAhmon
edit- Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editAntoine
edit- Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Vacations
- Published git v2 announcement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/199/
- Worst thing
- Docker and unpinned dependencies ...
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
edit- Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (quasi-vacationing)
Last week
edit- Best thing
- It's nice to do manual labor instead of staring at computer screens
- Worst thing
- My back hurts now
What's on your workboard
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
edit- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
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James
edit- Current COVID19 status: 0 & 40 // Ψ state hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
Jeena
edit- Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (holiday Fri)
Last week
edit- Best thing
- I now have a cool and useful phabricator dashboard thanks to Mukunda
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
edit- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- New home
- Got my laptop sticker finally
- Worst thing
- Moving house
What's on your workboard
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Mukunda
edit- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Easiest train ever so far (thanks James!)
- Worst thing
- Waking up ~0 minutes before this meeting.
- Honerable mention: cloud-init
What's on your workboard
editTyler
edit- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
edit- Best thing
- reviewing last quarter's accomplishments, it was a lot
- now tremendously in debt :)
- Worst thing
- filling in slides decks for management fun
What's on your workboard
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Zeljko
edit- Current COVID19 status: L-X hours/week
- that's just "XL" :P
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Started preparing for marathon in September 🏃♂️
- Worst thing
- Dropped phone in water 🌊