Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200909
2020-09-09 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 11 Sep: Brennen maybe out
- 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
- Offsite?
- 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: No Train
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.7 - phab:T257976
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.8 - phab:T257977
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
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
- 3 day weekend
- Worst thing
- Fire
What's on your workboard = edit
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Camping.
- Worst thing
- Fire.
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
- Getting keys to our new place on Friday!
- Worst thing
- We live in Hell now. (Much cooler than I expected; 61F. Not as cool as I thought it'd be; Where's the party?)
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Buying a new desk, finally!
- Worst thing
- I also need a chair...ouch my wallet
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- home-office re-do (see link in Telegram)
- many new teas
- Worst thing
- computers
- the Internet
- people
- the universe
- the multiverse
- having too much caffeine
- Debian package building tooling
- Finnish web shops
- having too much negativity
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Ready to deploy the legalpad conduit api for https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253265
- Worst thing
- I thought I found a bad data leak vulnerability in legalpad but it was a false alarm.
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- fall is coming
- Worst thing
- Wildfire smoke
- Ubiquiti products recently
- Heartily seconded.
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- long vacation 🏝
- Average running distance/time per week (for the last 4 weeks): 56 km (35 miles) / 6h
- GSoC is over! 😅
- new titles at https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ 👔
- Worst thing
- catching up after vacation 😬