Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200715

2020-07-15

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 16–17 July: Mukunda's out, birthday ;) Happy birthday!
• 11–26 July: Antoine out
• 13th & 22–24 July: Tyler out

• 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs -- Shortened train week

• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

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

• 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
  • 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 + Ahmon
• 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
  • Group2 on Wednesday US?
• 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
• 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
• 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train

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:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969

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
  • "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

Incoming/Needs attention

• 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 👍

Keysigning

• https://files.liw.fi/temp/000-keysheet.md

Individual Tuning Sessions

Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Branding

If you care I'm supposed to do a survey to "represent my team's opinions" on branding so that technology's opinion can be conveyed to comms in a succinct way. If you don't care: skip this. If you think this is a path fraught with peril best avoided, well, maybe shout into the void now.

I'll just leave this here, feel free to mark it up, I'll respond to the survey today at 18:00UTC

• Movement Called: Wikipedia Network/WMF Called: Wikipedia Network Trust
  • Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals/Option_1
  • Reduces Confusion (+1):
  • Improves Reputation (+1):
  • Raises awareness of projects (+1):
  • Grows movement (+1):
  • Most adaptable (+1):
  • Comments:

• Movement called: Wikipedia Movement/WMF Called: Wikipedia Organization
  • Link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals/Option_2
  • Reduces Confusion (+1):
  • Improves Reputation (+1):
  • Raises awareness of projects (+1):
  • Grows movement (+1):
  • Most adaptable (+1):
  • Comments:

• Movement called: Wiki/WMF Called: Wikipedia
  • Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals/Option_3
  • Reduces Confusion (+1):
  • Improves Reputation (+1):
  • Raises awareness of projects (+1):
  • Grows movement (+1):
  • Most adaptable (+1):
  • Comments
    • Where do I vote -1? :-P

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
  • Ž: meeting scheduled on Monday, but no topic?

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition

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

• These are all in betterworks and aligned to my objectives -- thank you all
  • Still TBD what becomes of our code review work; working on community consultation most likely
  • Next steps Tyler + Greg talking with "some people" :)

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

Ahmon

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • fixing aptly
• Worst thing
  • n/a

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

• Current COVID19 status: 38 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Cutting torches, impact drivers, lithium battery packs
    • don't cut batteries!
• Worst thing
  • Hughesnet

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?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/4845/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • I am looking forward to my new tea steeping cup arriving
• Worst thing
  • It didn't ship yet

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Cable management stuff
• Worst thing
  • "sudo mkfs" when I meant "sudo fsck"

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • I remembered my pgp keychain password!
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week (I took a day off, jeez)

Last week

• Best thing
  • Took a day off, went hiking, got a cat
    • Ž: what does the dog say?! 🐶
• Worst thing
  • Too much sun on my day off; brain fried

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: 🏝 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Ran 25k on Sunday, the most I've ever run, took me 3 hours. 😅
  • New and shiny QTE team blog - Wow. So wikimedia. Such quality. Many testing. Very team. 🐶 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/21/
  • Working from a village on an Island in the Adriatic sea! 🌊
  • Agreeing to deploy Abstract Wikipedia 😱
• Worst thing
  • Working from a village on an Island in the Adriatic sea! 👨‍💻

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