Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020610

2020-06-10

Thcipriani: I'm attending a budget meeting today because I find budgets fascinating -- Lars will run the meeting today! EngProd Management+CTO once-every-so-often meeting. Brennen will run the meeting today!

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 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

• 8 Jun - wmf.36 - Jeena + Lars
• 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
• 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
• 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
• 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars

= 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
    • Train branch cut time is changing:
      • Starting with 1.35.0-wmf.37 on June 16th the wmf MediaWiki branch cut will happen at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday…
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.35 - phab:T253023
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174

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)
  • Branch cut automation starts in 2 weeks with 1.35.0-wmf.37[0]! Branches will be cut at 02:00 UTC every Tuesday starting June 16th. Please yell if that's an issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!

• REMINDER: fill out the "silent Friday" survey by June 15th

• REMINDER: File your wellness benefits by June 15th: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Wellness_Program
  • See also related office hours in staff calendar

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_Health_Group/projects/DevEd
  • Signup for DevEd workshops that interest you!

• Skill Matrix: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Skill_matrix
  • Thcipriani: Please update as you have time -- should be quick, get it out of the way :)
  • Thanks: Brennen, James, Mukunda (as of 2020-06-08)
  • Lars didn't see anything needing updating for himself

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • Add any recommendations

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition

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

Add as you have them!

• Scap plugins will move from mediawiki-config to scap git repository with the next release.
• Deployment script added to deployment-charts for deploying to k8s
• MediaWiki branch cuts are going to be fully automated, at last!!!!
• TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
• Interactive logspam-watch

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

Last week

• Best thing
  • Resuming on review work and grooming task backlogs!
• Worst thing
  • Nothing achieved on Monday, it was kids day

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
  • Finally sorted out all the miscellany with TimedMediaHandler
• Worst thing
  • Living in a failing state.
  • Pollen.

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
  • Am in London.
• Worst thing
  • Am in lockdown anyway.

What's on your workboard

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

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: ~25 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Our baby pony, "Neptune"
    • Pony pictures?
• Worst thing
  • Having to haul to the vet 2 hours away on Sunday night

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
  • Found a flat, signed contract. Moving within the foreseeable future.
• Worst thing
  • Going to move.
  • Humanity in general.
  • https://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/CalvinAndHobbesOnSurestSignOfIntelligentLife

What's on your workboard

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

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Made some progress on running puppet in the train-dev vm
• Worst thing
  • Our production Puppet is insane

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
• Worst thing
  • Missing the team meeting again :(

What's on your workboard

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

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

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