Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201118
2020-11-18
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 3 Nov (Election Day): US staff with reqs
- 6 Nov: Mukunda vacation day
- 11 Nov (Veterans day): US staff with reqs
- 11-13 Nov: extra holiday for everyone
- 23-25 Nov: Mukunda - make it a week?
- 25 Nov: Greg - extra day to get ready for turkey day
- 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
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
- 23 Nov - ??? - Thanksgiving Thurs/Fri https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T263185
- 30 Nov - wmf.20 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 7 Dec - wmf.21 - Mukunda + Dan
- 14 Dec - wmf.22 - Dan + Jeena
- 21 Dec - ???
- 28 Dec - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
- NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
Status
editSoS
edit- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
- 2020-11-25: Brennen
Outgoing
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- gerrit missing tree
- 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.18 phab:T263184
- Next week: No Train
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
Callouts
editTeam Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
edit- Open Enrollment Reminder: If you need to make changes or enroll in a pre-tax account, open enrollment will take place from Monday, November 9 - Friday, November 20.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation member
organization. For the upcoming KubeCon NA 2020 event (2020-11-17 through 2020-11-20), the CNCF has decided to give all member organizations unlimited event tickets
- ITC Manager feedback
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
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
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
- Did GitLab consult finish this month?
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Nov '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!
editAhmon
editLast week
editThinking about automated deployments and error monitoring. This week:
train duty modifying logspam to report errors within the last N minutes.
- Best thing
- days off
- some rain
- Worst thing
- N/A
What's on your workboard =
editAntoine
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Gerrit Grafana dashboards https://gra fana.wikimedia.org/dashboards/f/5AnaHr2Mk/gerrit
- We now collect Gerrit internal metrics using Prometheus
- I have learned about Prometheus metrics
- Gerrit Grafana dashboards https://gra fana.wikimedia.org/dashboards/f/5AnaHr2Mk/gerrit
- Worst thing
- Files on commons were not showing on Thursday. Hotfixed thanks to Timo / SRE.
- <CENSORED DUE TO EMBARGO>
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- How little of last week there was.
- Worst thing
- Masonry, homeownership.
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
- Experimented with MW image builds using buildkit and got something funky working. Needs feedback/analysis.
- We have a new Horizon project called pipelinelib-experimental.
- Worst thing
- Cutthroat nannyshare shinshenanigansanigans (<- sure). (No child care ATM.)
What's on your workboard
editJeena
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Got my new glasses: you're all tiny again
- Time off was lovely, got much sleeping done
- Ahmon made train-dev faster (less l10n), and I'm making progress on my final OKR, finally
- Worst thing
- Lost my glasses: you all had to become huge
- Formerly super-secret hobby project wasn't finished in a five-day weekend
- Daylight has been stolen
Well, darkness makes you think of that
Which wouldn't otherwise be remembered at all
Now I remember how much I wanted to do
And how little of it I achieved
What's on your workboard
editMukunda
editLast week
edit- Worst thing
- Nothing really
- Best thing
- I was on vacation.
- Did some work on my side project and bought a tractor.
What's on your workboard
edit
Tyler
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- My office is so fresh and so clean (clean).
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
edit
Zeljko
edit(excused)
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing