Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20201216

2020-12-16

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• 23 Dec: Tyler out
• 23 Dec: No team meeting
• 24 Dec until Jan 6, inclusive: Lars out
• 21-23 Dec Jeena, Dan
• 24 Dec-01 Jan (Holidays + New years): US staff with reqs

• 6 Jan: All Tech monthly meeting
• 7 Jan: All Staff monthly meeting
• 15 Jan: Wikipedia’s Birthday
• 18 Jan: Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- US staff with reqs
• 20 Jan: Dan Out

• 15 Feb: Presidents' Day -- US staff with reqs

Train

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 Antoine
  • NB: Lars is only back from holiday on Thursday Jan 7
• 11 Jan - wmf.26 - Lars + Jeena
• 18 Jan - wmf.27 - Brennen + Lars (Monday is a holiday)
• 25 Jan - wmf.28 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 1 Feb - wmf.29 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 8 Feb - wmf.30 - Mukunda + Antoine
• 15 Feb - wmf.31 - Dan + Mukunda

Deploys through the end of the year from product: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aOkLHM8nDtLTXtroNkXT4mV0Fy5cedrJ70Lfeu4WM4I/edit#gid=0

Status

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

SoS

• 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

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.21 phab:T263187
    • This week: 1.36.0-wmf.22 phab:T263188
    • Next week: No Train and no deploys!
    • Rest of the year: No Train and no deploys!

Callouts

Final deploy week of the year!

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• CTO Office hours today 2000-2100UTC: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technology/Technology_Mission,_Values_%26_Vision

• ITC: 15 January 2021: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations
  • 1 full work week from now to write (2020-01-04 -- 2020-01-08)
  • 1 full work week to have the conversation (2020-01-11 -- 2020-01-15)

• Q3 Planning: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxPYTb6mGjC0z3kEuFFWxV9YcOipvs4wSMkk3wPEl7s/edit#

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• 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 - Dec '20 edition

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
• https://doc-stage.wmcloud.org/ , staging area for doc.wikimedia.org. Next prod then update related docs.
• Scap source formatted with Black now
• Runnable runbook blog

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

• 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!

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4998/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

Last week

• Blocked by:
  • Need review from Brennen on: 644935: Add php7.2-dba to stretch-php72 package list | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/releng/dev-images/+/644935
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • k8s l10n CDB build prototyped and working
  • Best thing
    • Commits being merged. Also mandatory fun day was fun.
  • Worst thing
    • N/A

What's on your workboard =

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=l9EWs30Wl3_5&order=priority

Antoine

Last week

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Best thing
    • https://doc-stage.wmcloud.org/ , staging area for doc.wikimedia.org. Next prod then update related docs.
  • Worst thing
    • COVID really

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
  • Ahmon review
• Updates:
  • Accumulate background on GitLab k8s deployment, do some experiments
  • XDebug publish images
  • Best thing
  • Video meetings with non-humans
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Blocked by:
  • Nothing
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train
  • PipelineLib updates
  • Copying files as builder requirements from other variants!
    • https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blubber/User_Guide#Variant_Config
  • Best thing
    • Progress on my workbench. Also, a new Blubber feature! (longhand builder.requirements config)
  • Worst thing
    • Decision fatigue on what species of wood to use for the top.
      • birch!
      • walnut! (would be pretty but too $$$ i think)

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

Jeena

• Blocked by:
  • need review on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/cli/+/645215
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • Train backup
  • Working on packaging mw-cli
  • Reviewing stuff
  • Reviewing k8s workshop doc from Wolfgang
  • Security training
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267699
    • For next quarter
  • Best thing
  • Worst thing
    • Sick :(

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Blocked by:
  • nope
• Blocking:
  • no?
• Updates:
  • Scap source formatted with Black now
  • Working on understanding https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243009
  • Best thing
    • only a few more days until solstice
    • US coup has failed so far
  • Worst thing
    • am tired all the time and it's dark all the time (read: it's still several days until solstice)

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Blocked by:
  • no
• Blocking:
  • no
• Updates:
  • Apparently SRE is making a common python library to be installed everywhere, I've suggested that we move some scap utility functions out into the shared lib. ( https://doc.wikimedia.org/wmflib/master/ )
    • Active wikiversions...maybe
    • My runbook blog post https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/217/runnable_runbooks/
  • Probably need to deploy Phabricator this week, there are translation updates that are needed for the french translation.
  • Best thing
    • fun day was fun
  • Worst thing
    • n/a

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Blocked by:
  • Q3 Planning
• Blocking:
  • ???
• Updates:
  • Best thing
    • Fun day was a fun day
  • Worst thing
    • Too many things to do not enough year to do it

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4998/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority