Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020429
2020-04-29 edit
ASYNC EDITION! edit
- Make sure your vacations are up-to-date
- Get in your updates for SoS
- Add to the monthly accomplishments
- Make sure your items on the workboard are up-to-date: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 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 celebrates the international communist conspiracy to take over the world
- 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 edit
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
- 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 edit
SoS edit
- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes edit
SoS going async for now. 🎻
Outgoing edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: No Train/No Deploys Tuesday - Friday
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.30 - phab:T249962
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.31 - phab:T249963
Callouts edit
- Release Engineering
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
Book club edit
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - April '20 edition edit
- 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
- Published Kubernetes migration tutorial
- Phabricator milestone columns can now be moved on workboards
Q4 Planning edit
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! edit
Antoine edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
James edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- A few days off, which turned out to be very welcome.
- Worst thing
- News. Politics. People in power. People. Humans. Self-concious, hairless apes.
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Closed my company.
- Worst thing
- Closed my company.