Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-03-31
2021-03-31
editVacations/Important dates
edit- 18-19 Mar: Mukunda out.
- 26 Mar->2 Apr: Dancy out
- 29 Mar: US staff with reqs
- 01-02 Apr: Dancy out; Dan too!
- 02-05 Apr: Lars out (Easter; public holiday)
- 5 Apr: Antoine (Easter)
- 9 Apr: US staff with reqs
- 12 Apr: US staff with reqs
- 14-16 Apr: Brennen out (no network)
- 22 Apr: Earth Day -- US staff with reqs
- 23 Apr: dancy out
- 08-29 May: Dan out for a few weeks of paternity leave
- 13 May: Antoine (Ascension day) (probably take May 14th off as well)
- 24 May: Antoine (Pentecost)
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 Mar - wmf.35 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 22 Mar - wmf.36 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 29 Mar - wmf.37 - Mukunda + Antoine (Monday is a holiday)
- 5 Apr - wmf.38 - Dan + Mukunda
- 12 Apr - wmf.39 - Jeena + Dan
- 19 Apr - wmf.40 - Lars + Jeena
- 26 Apr - wmf.41 - Brennen + Lars
- 3 May - wmf.?? - Ahmon + Brennen
Status
editSoS
edit- 2021-02-24: Thcipriani
- 2021-03-24: James
- 2021-03-31: Thcipriani
- 2021-04-07: …
Outgoing
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Thank Yous
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.36.0-wmf.37 phab:T278343
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.38 phab:T278344
- This week: 1.37.0-wmf.1 phab:T278345
Callouts
editIncoming
editTeam Business
edit- M8s IC meeting happened this week
Incoming/Needs attention
editTrain Go/No Go: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GXC_Bf9iAvme58euBLQSMMxl1_ojbr32bjcHH6q1wKE/edit#
Book club/Lunch and Learn
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Read_papers_and_talk
Feb 15thMar 1st: Lars -- David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD)- March 22nd: Jeena Suggestion: Falling Down: A guide
- Soon™ Accelerate Tyler Cipriani
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - Mar '21 edition
edit- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- PipelineLib fully working on releases-jenkins.wikimedia.org
- Credentials added to pipelinelib
- S&F contractors underway with production GitLab configuration
- Terrible script for finding status of production errors on logstash dashboard
- Ability to deploy phatality updates
Standup!
editAhmon
edit- Updates:
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
Antoine
edit- Updates:
- Ran train last week
- 2 errors that were clear rollbacks due to people not being able to save article
- Promoted wmf.36 -> Group1 Monday
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
Brennen
edit- Blocked by:
- Nothing
- Blocking:
- Probably.
- Updates:
- GitLab yaks
- Train docs
- Stubbing out portal and such under this namespace: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Release_Engineering/Drafts
- Running a deployment training
- Ranting into surveys (Effective & Responsible Communication)
Dan
edit- Blocked by:
- Nada!
- Blocking:
- Nada!
- Updates:
- Working with Jeena on getting private settings into multiversion images
- Thinking about how to best automate MW image builds
Jeena
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Working copying privateSettings and patches to mediawiki image w/Dan and Ahmon
- PET expedition
- review for mw-cli
- writing tests for mw-cli
Lars
edit- Blocked by:
- everything
- Blocking:
- keine
- Updates:
- Waiting for reviews of "scap apply-patches".
- Bitdefender :(
Mukunda
edit- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Phatality deployment was problematic again but at the end I was able to deploy and roll back so I think I'm unblocked at least.
- Still not on group0 but unblocked as of a moment before this meeting.
- Train. Fairly uneventful so far.
Tyler
edit- Blocked by:
- Nothing
- Blocking:
- ???
- Updates:
- Talking to WMCS about GitLab runners, "local" dev
- Deployment training continuing this week -- 2 windows
- TODO: broader announcement