Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200930
2020-09-30
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
- 15 Sep: Thcipriani out
- 18 Sep: Brennen out, Dancy out for a few hours around noon Pacific
- 21-25: Antoine barely there in his evenings
- 2 Oct: Lars out
- 2 Oct: car service thcipriani
- 5-6 Oct: Dan out
- 12 Oct (Indigenous People's Day): US staff with reqs
- 16 Oct: Lars out
- 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, and also Lars
- 24-31 Dec (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
- 24th is Thursday -- what do with train? + Pause for banners -- 2 weeks no train resume 4 Jan
- 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
Rotating positions
editTrain
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 - Ahmon + Mukunda
- 28 Sep - wmf.11 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 5 Oct - wmf.12 - Antoine + Dan https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263178
- 12 Oct - wmf.13 - Dan + Jeena https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263179
- 19 Oct - wmf. 14 - Jeena + Lars https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263180
- 26 Oct - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263181
- 2 Nov - wmf.16 - Brennen + Ahmon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263182
- 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Antoine + Mukunda https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263184
- 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.XX
- 7 Dec - wmf.XX
- 14 Dec - wmf.XX
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
Status
editSoS
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.10 - phab:T257978
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.11 - phab:T263177
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.12 - phab:T263178
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
- GitLab Consultation! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab_consultation Closes on September 30th.
- Oct 2?
Team Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
editIndividual tuning sessions
edit- Target week of 2020-10-12
- Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Q2 Planning
editBook club/Lunch and Learn
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
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!
- Scap 3.15.0 was deployed to all servers
- We have trained another person to conduct the train
- New phabricator metrics / stats in the project reports (currently deployed to cloud, prod coming soon)
- image promotion in CI
- Tiny incremental improvements to logspam-watch (it now shows seconds)
- GitLab consultation well underway
- Released Quibble 0.0.45 https://doc.wikimedia.org/quibble/changelog.html
- Local development mailing list and updates page
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!
editAhmon
editLast week
edittrain-dev:
deploy-promote testwikis runs to completion, including curl https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version
- Best thing
- Almost done with first usable rev of train-dev!
- Worst thing
- US Presidential debate
What's on your workboard =
editAntoine
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Caught up with gitlab consultation
- Worst thing
- Can't start writing documents I have to.
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Jeena talked me through making some actual progress on a bunch of Docker image stuff.
- Worst thing
- Democracy is a dead letter and civilization is collapsing.
- Thinking about code review is hard, although to be honest that seems relatively trivial by contrast to everything else about the world.
What's on your workboard
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
- GitLab-Test: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gitlab-test/
Dan
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editJeena
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- My Yubikey talk went well, it seems.
- My bright light lamp works. https://www.innolux.fi/en/lamp/bright-light-lamp/lucia-2%C3%9755-dim-bright-light-therapy-device
- Arranged my days off until Jan 6.
- Worst thing
- I seem to be failing my Scap goals for Q1 at least partly.
- I'm quite distractable these days.
What's on your workboard
editMukunda
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Got some good feedback on phab metrics report from Naike and Andre.
- submitted the code to gitlab to get an idea about how gitlab review workflow goes.
- https://gitlab-test.wmcloud.org/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/1
- Got some good feedback on phab metrics report from Naike and Andre.
- Worst thing
- Main internet connection has been down since monday morning. Fortunately I didn't cancel the backup ISP.
What's on your workboard
editTyler
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- GitLab consultation
- Worst thing
- Debate
What's on your workboard
edit
Zeljko
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Today was the last long run before the race. (25 km or 16 miles or 3 hours.) 🏃♂️
- Worst thing
- I had to wake up at 5 am today. Because of the long run. 😴