Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200826
2020-08-26 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 21 August Mukunda day off
- 28 August Thcipriani moving some more :(
- 28 August Jeena off
- 31 August Lars day off
- 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
- 1 Sep: Lars day off
- 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day
- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 11 Nov (Veterens day): US staff with reqs
- 26-27 Nov (Thanksgiving): US staff with reqs
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 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
- 7 Sep - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
- 14 Sep - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
- 21 Sep - wmf.10 - Brennen + Ahmon
- 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Antoine
Status edit
SoS edit
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- Deb is in charge now.
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit
SoS 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: 1.36.0-wmf.5 - phab:T257973
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.6 - phab:T257974
- Next week: No Train
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 edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
- Offsite?
- End of Sept.-ish?
- No vehement kdsaljf opposition
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 - Aug '20 edition edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Reduced the number of non-failure FAILURE messages in CI
- After 9 months, Aphlict is finally back.
- Scap version 3.15.0 released (in git, if not as .deb yet)
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! edit
Ahmon edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- New desk
- Worst thing
- Smoke
What's on your workboard = edit
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Work on Quibble resuming with Kosta and Adam Wight
- Worst thing
- turns out I am not familiar with doc.wikimedia.org docroot PHP app ;D
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Probably just the flu
- Worst thing
- The flu
- Other:
- I guess this seems a bit less silly? https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/622575
- dev-images is still pretty silly.
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- My daughter running around holding her toy drill gun above her head yelling "dada dada dada!"
- Worst thing
- The air.
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Finally got Scap release tagged
- Worst thing
- It took months to test new Scap release
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Met with Erika, had good discussion. I learned that Erika is planning organize some sort of "agile practices" working group. As I understand it, this will will hopefully standardize some best practices and workflows around agile planning practices on wikimedia teams. I intend to contribute my phabricator knowledge and learn some things which will inform my work on improving Phabricator.
- Worst thing
- The best thing was way too many words.
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- sooo cloose to automating that darn deployment calendar (very exciting technical problems)
- Worst thing
- MoooOoVinG/physical exhaustion :(((
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- 3 weeks of vacation 🏝
- Worst thing
- somebody (my age) died after the race I ran this Sunday 💀 https://www.jutarnji.hr/life/zivotne-price/istrcao-polumaraton-usao-u-cilj-i-preminuo-zivio-je-100-na-sat-plivao-s-morskim-psima-15015178