Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201125
2020-11-25
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
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
- 16 Nov - wmf.18 - Ahmon + Antoine
- 23 Nov - wmf.19 - No Train - 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 - wmf.23 - No Train
- 28 Dec - wmf.24 - No Train
- 4 Jan - wmf.25 - Jeena + Lars
- NB: Lars is back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0
Status
editSoS
edit- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
- 2020-08-26 onwards: Deb is in charge/SoS is async
- 2020-11-25: Brennen
- 2020-12-02: Ahmon
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.18 phab:T263184
- This week: No Train
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.20 phab:T263186
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
Callouts
editTeam Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
edit- ITC Manager feedback -- you should all have it!
- Fun day: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Tech_Department_Fun_Day_2020
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 - Nov '20 edition
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Gerrit security upgrade
- Gerrit grafana dashboard
- Created pipelinelib-experimental cloud project for working on pipelinelib
- Scap 3.16.0 release (tagged, waiting on SRE now)
- logspam-watch improvements
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
edit- logspam-watch mods
- deploy-promote: poll SCM for merge of wikiversions commit. Update your checkouts of mediawiki/tools/release!
- Added flag to rebuildLocalisationCache.php to skip MessageBlobStore clear (mw-on-k8s prep). Will update scap to use the new flag once all live versions of MW are running w/the new commit. Hopefully friction on new scap releases will be greatly reduced by then.
- Learning about helm charts
- Best thing
- Commits getting merged
- Worst thing
- COVID Thanksgiving
What's on your workboard =
editAntoine
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Gerrity security update + Gerrit Summit + Security training
- deploy-promote automatic (that surprised me)
- Worst thing
- Was a lot of overlap at some point
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Tricked a coworker into writing Perl.
- Worst thing
- Home improvement.
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
- Getting my workshop set up.
- Worst thing
- Realizing how much there is to do to the workshop.
What's on your workboard
editJeena
edit- link recommendation
- rdf streaming...cluster :)
- dev images
- mwcli patches need review
- automated image updates in beta
- kubeadm convo with bstorm
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Scap release tagged \o/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orghyn91ZMo (Past, Present and Future of Empirical Software Engineering: A Q&A with Greg Wilson)
- ALso worst thing: it's very depressing for anyone writing software
- Worst thing
- Beta cluster
What's on your workboard
edit=== Mukunda === (Vacation)
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
edit
Tyler
editLast week
edit- Best thing
- Paper club was a really good discussion! Happy about that.
- 5 weeks left of 2020!
- Worst thing
- 3 *work weeks* left of 2020 :\