Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201021
2020-10-21
editVacations/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:
- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
- 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone
- 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
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday: TODO: adjust branching job cron schedule
- 9 Nov - wmf.17 - Ahmon + Antoine https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263183
- extra holiday? affects train? Yes :(
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
- 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.20
- 7 Dec - wmf.21
- 14 Dec - wmf.22 - ??? - Final train for year
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25
Status
edit- opcache corruption problem in group1, but restarting php-fpm sorted that
- otherwise calm-ish, no blockers
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.13 - phab:T263179
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.14 - phab:T263180
- Next week: No Train
Callouts
editTeam Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
editOffsite Team Day (2020-10-26)
editIndividual tuning sessions
editThank you!
Q2 Planning
editKick off sessions/possibly breakouts on team day?
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
- Next L&L cancelled for offsite
- Might just start picking papers for Book Club. These have all been on my list a while:
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-yuan.pdf
- https://azaidman.github.io/publications/gousiosICSE2015.pdf
- https://people.csail.mit.edu/hunkim/images/3/37/Papers_kim_2007_bugcache.pdf
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MSR-2015-Source-Code-Ownership-IEEE_camera-ready.pdf
- https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P125.pdf
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!
- Deployed: Phabricator project metrics reporting features
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
editWorking on train-dev slide tech with Lars. Eyeballing opcache problems. Started studying https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266055 (Update Scap to perform rolling restart for all MW deploy). (to deal w/ opcache issues)
- Best thing
- Clean air
- Worst thing
- opcache!
What's on your workboard =
editAntoine
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Doxygen upgraded to 1.8.19 (long blocked due to random segfaults here and there in previous versions)
- https://earthquake.sismologue.com/earthquake/earthquake/france-saint-pere-en-retz.zAEAqw
- Worst thing
- Some shell step in Jenkins takes too long to terminate, apparently doing nothing ? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265615
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Lyons hasn't burned down yet
- Worst thing
- I had some doubts about my best thing
What's on your workboard
edit- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Did some soldering and got a 40ft 24V LED lightstrip set up in the livingroom atop the crown molding.
- Worst thing
- Too many things to do.
What's on your workboard
editJeena
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Spouse sold artwork
- Worst thing
- Doom was supposed to be a computer game, not a state of being
- My fifth external brain lobe is still down
What's on your workboard
editMukunda
editLast week
edit- Worst thing
- I cut my index finger pretty bad doing stupid things with a pocket knife
- typing one handed currently :(
- Best thing
- I still feel my fingertip so I don't think anything's permanently damaged ;)
I'm probably going to request the rest of the week off, since my typing is impaired and I don't have any train duties or urgent projects to work on this week.
What's on your workboard
edit
Tyler
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Looking forward to offsite discussions
- Worst thing
- There's too much happening at the beginning of quarter
What's on your workboard
edit
Zeljko
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Excited about virtual offsite 👨💻
- Worst thing
- covid picking up in Croatia 😷