Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2020617
2020-06-17 edit
Vacations/Important dates edit
- 19 June (Juneteenth): US staff with reqs
- 22 June to 3 July: Lars is away (moving house; Telegram reaches, in emergencies)
- 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
- Early July: Brennen likely traveling home for a bit
- 14 August (fill-in): US staff with reqs
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
- 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 edit
- Train has reached its terminus. The next train will start on Tuesday from the same platform.
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: 1.35.0-wmf.36 - phab:T254173
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.37 - phab:T254174
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.38 - phab:T254175
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
- "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)
- scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924
Team Business edit
Incoming/Needs attention edit
- ANNOUNCE: We have a new person starting June 29th!
- Onboarding doc updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253350
- Point them at Telegram group? +1 Didn't we deprecate that? Still used, at least once a week.
- All: Please tag some things with "Good first task" for them https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/169/
- Onboarding doc updates: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253350
- 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
- Jeena and Antoine, please update ^
- Train blocker risky change email: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/releng-risky-change-email
- LGTM. +1
- Dan's CI metrics died when people1001 was replaced by people1002, as the crontab isn't puppetised. Oops.
- Move to doc1001, maybe?
- File a task please - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255701
- Future of James.
- Don't leave us James.
James we need your wit and expertise May James have a long future!
Book club/Lunch and Learn edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- Scheduled the first Lunch and learn 2020-07-06 ~Advanced Phab Usage
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - June '20 edition edit
- 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 fully automated, at last!!!!
- TMH job runner works in MediaWiki-Docker
- Interactive logspam-watch
Q1 Planning edit
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
- If we've had 1:1s this week, we've talked about it
- Get draft key results/sub objectives in the sheet this week
- Ratified at team meeting next week
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
- Current COVID19 status: 35 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Reviews, reviews, reviews
- Worst thing
- James moving!
What's on your workboard edit
Brennen edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Responses to Tyler's mail reaching out to other orgs re: GitLab CE
- Worst thing
- James. Well, not James specifically. Future absence of James.
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
- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
James edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Lockdown in London is lockdown in *London*.
- Worst thing
- Lockdown in London is *lockdown* in London.
- New gerrit shows a calendar icon rather than the status, so no emoji fun. :-(
What's on your workboard edit
Jeena edit
- Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Our baby pony Neptune is so cute and fun to watch running around
- Worst thing
- Bye James
What's on your workboard edit
Lars edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Good progress on moving house
- Worst thing
- I'm moving house
What's on your workboard edit
Mukunda edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- Found good screencasting software: https://obsproject.com/
- Worst thing
- Running operations/puppet outside of production is fraught
What's on your workboard edit
Tyler edit
- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- I'm at the team meeting
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard edit
Zeljko edit
- Current COVID19 status: lizard hours/week
Last week edit
- Best thing
- not running for two weeks
- Worst thing
- not running for two weeks
- James 👋😢