Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200902
2020-09-02 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 1 Sep: Data center switchover—no train that week
- 1 Sep: Lars day off
- 1 Sep: Antoine kids heading back to school
- 3-4 Sep: Brennen camping
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 12 Oct: Indigenous People's Day
- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 11 Nov (Veterans 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/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
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.6 - phab:T257974
- This week: No Train
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - phab:T257976
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)
- 3.15.0 has the sync-world subcommand
- scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
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
- PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes 2020-09-14
- TODO: thcipriani update calendar invite and wikipage
- PHP for the Reluctant by Brennen Bearnes 2020-09-14
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)
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Sep '20 edition edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
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
- scap sync working in train-dev
- Worst thing
- MW l10n
What's on your workboard = edit
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Finally updated CI jobs for git v2 / checking out in a local branch and fetch all tags
- Worst thing
- PHP proc_close() doesn't quite terminate the spawned backgrounded process :D
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- So far GitLab is easy to configure
- Pandoc for slide decks is pretty neat: `pandoc --self-contained -t slidy ./foo.md > slides.html`
- Worst thing
- The endless doomscroll
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
- The prospect of much more space.
- Worst thing
- Not there yet.
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Peach
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Had fun while on vacation: hack hacky hack. New project is excit... wait, not talking about new project. Cake! I had cake!
- Worst thing
- The blinding light is an oncoming train. And not in a good way.
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Made parts on my CNC mill finally. Also matrix seems cool.
- Worst thing
- Difficulty getting consensus on how to implement "cycle time" metric in phabricator. Discussions ongoing in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148805 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261493
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Done. Moving.
- GitLab consultation starting to move...today's the day...
- Archiving a bunch of GitHub repos
- Worst thing
- Lots of things hinge on the GitLab consultation... :)
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing