Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020527

2020-05-27

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 11 May - Mukunda vacation (use it or lose it)
• 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
• 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs, also Lars (swapped with 21st)

• 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs

• 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs

• 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs

Rotating positions

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

• 4 May - wmf.31 - Brennen + Antoine
• 11 May - wmf.32 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 18 May - wmf.33 - NO TRAIN (virtual offsite)
• 25 May - wmf.34 - Mukunda + James
• 1 Jun - wmf.35 - James + Jeena
• 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
• 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.34 - phab:T253022
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173

Callouts

• 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
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdforrester_(WMF)/MW-in-Containers_thoughts – would appreciate input. Next step take to Pipeline? (thcipriani: Yep.)
  • Please review for pipeline meeting on 2020-06-10

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - May '20 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• The release train branch cut is now an automatic job
• Wikimedia Portals build and WDQS data release jobs moved to docker
• The Continuous Integration instances on WMCS have been fully migrated off Jessie! T236576
• Scap 1.14.0 released (by releng) and deployed (by serviceops)
• Setting up a local dev environment for Phabricator: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Local_Dev_Environment
• CI server (contint) migrated to buster!

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/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Antoine

• Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week (I don't really track time)

Last week

• Best thing
  • Jenkins & Zuul running on Buster / contint2001
• Worst thing
  • Doxygen crashes when run inside Docker

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Hackathon
• Worst thing
  • Docker
  • neighborhood politics

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • TMH hackathon fun. (And the offsite in general.)
• Worst thing
  • Holiday weekends without any outside time.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 20 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Won a tea contest -- a contest where you make a scene with your tea-ware -- TODO: post picture in IRC
• Worst thing
  • Everything's bad.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • warm, sunny weather
• Worst thing
  • noisy construction work across the road

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Got a phab local dev environment setup documented (kudos to Brennen for taking good notes!)
  • Train branching automation still seems to be working, yay
• Worst thing
  • just about everything else

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Train session last week
  • Watercooler is back!
• Worst thing
  • Short week + silent Friday == Cram all your meetings into 3 days

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: XL hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Carb-loading for half-marathon this Sunday 😋 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate_loading 🍝
  • Intern Phabricator badge https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/recipients/16/ 🎓
  • WATERCOOLERS!!!11!1!! 🚰
• Worst thing
  • selenium-daily-betacommons-MediaWiki fails with `internal_api_error_LogicException: [...] Exception caught: Local entity source does not have items.` https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253049 🤷‍♂️

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn