Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201007
2020-10-07 edit
I (thcipriani) can't be here today, asking Brennen to run things in my stead.
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 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
- 26-30 Oct: Offsite:
- https://wudele.toolforge.org/1yMqruitkbYO62xV
- Week of 26th October (see cal invite from Greg, and email from Greg)
- 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 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 - 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.20
- 7 Dec - wmf.21
- 14 Dec - wmf.22
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25
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.11 - phab:T263177
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.12 - phab:T263178 (maybe...not likely at this point)
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.13 - phab:T263179
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
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
Add ideas for our offsite (week of 2020-10-26): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_PxdoMi06cQbhNAf46RI9_ay_5R_tfYB4q7GIyBX364/edit
Individual tuning sessions edit
- Target week of 2020-10-12
- Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Q2 Planning edit
Book 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 - Oct '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
- Better air quality, train-dev almost "done" (awaiting review from Lars)
- Worst thing
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
- #looptober
- GitLab consultation input period is finished
- Worst thing
- ...which means we have to make decisions
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
- Boxes are slowly going away.
- Worst thing
- My Internet connection has been down for 4 days. :(
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
- Trebuchets throwing flaming pianos
- Not my secret new hobby project
- Trebuchets throwing flaming pianos
- Worst thing
- Blisters
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Off-grid progress:
10 kilowatt hours of batteries 7 kilowatts solar panels 4 kilowatts of inverters
- Worst thing
- multiple train derailment last week.
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Writing club is happening ✍️ https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263660
- Worst thing
- Slight pain in a foot just a few days before the marathon 😱