Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201209
2020-12-09
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
- 21-23 Dec Jeena, Dan
- 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs
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 only 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
- 2020-12-09: Tyler
- 2020-12-16: Antoine
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.20 phab:T263186
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T263188
- Rest of the year: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Upcoming_Release_Train_disruptions
Callouts
edit1.36.0-wmf.22 is the last train of the year!
Team Business
editIncoming/Needs attention
editQ3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/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
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
- Happened!
2020-12-07: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk/2020-12-07
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Dec '20 edition
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Scap 3.16.0 released and deployed
- Dropped scap plugins from mw-config
- unconditional restart on deploy for opcache corruption deployed
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- Blocked by:
- None
- Blocking:
- None (AFAIK)
- Updates:
- Worked on l10n handling for MW containers in Kubernetes
- Running rebuildLocalisationCache.php in mediawiki-dev (helm chart) results in 4MB of debug log spam that shows in up kubectl logs. Learning about MW logging to find a way to disable or redirect debug log messages.
- Best thing
- Beautiful weather
- Worst thing
- N/A
What's on your workboard =
editAntoine
editLast week
edit- Blocked by:
- bunch of infra patch pending
- some Phabricator translation https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T269339
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Quibble with Apache is progressing (using supervisord)
- doc.wikimedia.org docroot migration schedule tomorrow completing the switch to use scap \o/
- Worst thing
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
editBrennen
editLast week
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Generally making headway on mediawiki-docker things.
- Worst thing
- Local politics.
- 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- Blocked by:
- Need review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/647058
- ^ will allow me to get vendor into the MW image, among other things
- Need review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/integration/pipelinelib/+/647058
- Blocking:
- Bryan Davis needs review of https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/blubber/+/647120
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Best thing
What's on your workboard
editJeena
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Thinking about how to securely do npm publish in the pipeline
- Thinking about mw-on-k8s
- Working on mw-cli
- MW-docker images
- Helping w/deployment charts
- need to review the buildkit stuff again
- Best thing
- Worst thing
Last week
edit- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
editLars
editLast week
edit- Blocked by:
- nada
- Blocking:
- zilch?
- Updates:
- Scap 3.16.0 deployed to production
- Best thing
- Only a couple more weeks to solstice and vacation
- Worst thing
- scap apply-patches doesn't handle errors well
- Still two more weeks to solstice and vacation
- Sunrise to sunset 6 hours 2 minutes today, but it was cloudy and rainy all day
What's on your workboard
edit
Mukunda
editLast week
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- TRAIN!
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
edit
Tyler
editLast week
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Lars: formatting scap patch
- Updates:
- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Best thing