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2020-04-15

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
  • 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
    • Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
  • 4-13 April (Easter and more): Lars
  • 22 April (Not-Easter I): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 23 April (Not-Easter infill): Staff with reqs
  • 24 April (Not-Easter II): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 1 May (May Day): Lars
  • 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
  • 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe Postponed
  • 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
  • 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
    • time, details, etc TBD
  • 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
  • 29-31 May: Brennen (NEVERMIND)

Rotating positions

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Train

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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


  • 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
  • 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
  • 13 Apr - wmf.28 - James + Lars
  • 20 Apr - wmf.29 - NO TRAIN (holiday)
  • 27 Apr - wmf.30 - Lars + Brennen
  • 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
  • 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
  • 18 May - wmf.?? - Mukunda + Dan (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
  • 25 May - wmf.?? - Dan + James
  • 1 Jun - wmf.?? - James + Jeena
  • 8 Jun - wmf.?? - Jeena + Lars
  • 15 Jun - wmf.?? - Lars + Brennen
  • 22 Jun - wmf.?? - Brennen + Antoine
  • 29 Jun - wmf.?? - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status

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

SoS

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  • 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

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SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

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Callouts

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Team Business

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Incoming/Needs attention

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Book club

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Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • Docker images published on buster-based contint2001 (as part of general temporary switch-over from contint1001 to 2001 for buster migration)
    • I should patch dev-images, eh?
  • Composer is now authenticated with github
  • Dropped basic PHP 7.1 testing from CI

Q4 Planning

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Standup!

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Our Workboards

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TODO Triage!

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Found a fix for zuul-merger namespace clashing
    • zuul-merger on contint2001 now runs out of Zuul deployed via scap!
  • Worst thing
    • Fighting puppet ;D


What's on your workboard

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Brennen

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Shell scripts.
  • Worst thing
    • Shell scripts.

What's on your workboard

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Dan

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • My daughter belly laughing uncontrollably at my wife's juggling skills.
  • Worst thing
    • A death in the family.

What's on your workboard

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James

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Progress with phan/seccheck merger.
  • Worst thing
    • I guess we're going to have to start PHP8 CI jobs soon, yay for more load on CI…

What's on your workboard

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Jeena

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Last week

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  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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Lars

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Productive vacation hacking on several personal projects
  • Worst thing
    • pandemicweatherOKRssoftwarepythoncomputersuspoliticsukpoliticshumanityandeverything
    • HN commenters in particular

What's on your workboard

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Mukunda

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Had a good discussion with Brennen about local dev stuff, especially regarding docker images and the need for a EngProd docker registry.
  • Worst thing
    • vague uncertainty about the future

What's on your workboard

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Tyler

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Last week

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What's on your workboard

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Zeljko

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Frontend web performance training
  • Worst thing
    • dead car battery

What's on your workboard

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What's on no-one's workboard

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