Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200722

2020-07-22

Tyler: I'm taking a vacation! Mukunda will be running the meeting today!

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

• 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.41 - phab:T256669
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969
    • Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - phab:T257970

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

Individual Tuning Sessions

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

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
  • 2020-08-03: Train dev environment with Lars Wirzenius
    • Send Lars your SSH public key

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
• Jenkins node Docker image cleanup & re-onlining after disk space recovers
• Credentials and environment variables in PipelineLib

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
  • Blubber hacking
• Worst thing
  • Noisy shinken alerts

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: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Slightly less-dysfunctional Jenkins.
• Worst thing
  • Termites.

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: 30 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • hurray my teacup arrived
• Worst thing
  • soooooo tired

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
  • Made progress on train-dev
• Worst thing
  • It's too warm

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
  • Bought an RX-8
• Worst thing
  • Bought an RX-8

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority
• Progres on the phab metrics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M308

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (out Wed-Fri)

Last week

• Best thing
  • Deplo
• Worst thing

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
  • Donated blood after many years
• Worst thing
  • It's hard to get enough sleep if you wake up early to run while it's not too warm

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