Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-08-11

2021-08-11

🏆 Wins

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

August '21 edition

• dev-images to buster
• Gerrit 3.3
• Successful php_fpm_always_restart: true test (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266055)
• Gitlab soft launch 
• migrated mw-cli to gitlab, got docker-in-docker integration tests working (thanks addshore)
  • https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/releng/cli/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml

🤝 Building a shared vision

Values

• Developer focus
  • Prioritize code review
  • Document all the things
  • Be responsive in IRC -releng

• Integrity
  • Communicate directly and honestly with teammates
  • Disagree without animosity
  • Hold each other accountable

• Freedom & open source
  • Work in the open
  • Be a good upstream
  • FOSS in the decision process, always
  • Advocate for supporting open projects
    • With contributions
    • With money

• Quality 
  • Make time to add polish and features
  • Take time to write tests and do code review
  • Take time make documentation easy to read

• Teamwork & Collaboration
  • Jump in when folks need help
  • Be mindful of timezones

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

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

August

• 6 Aug: Brennen out a bit early for music
• 9 Aug: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• 12-13 Aug: Jeena - 🐎 Neptune's first horse show :D 🐎
  • Go Neptune Go
• 9-20 Aug: Dan out for additional parental leave
• August: Antoine

September

• 6 Sept: Labor day (US Staff with reqs)
• 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Services - Monday, Sept 13th 14:00 UTC
• 13 Sept: DC Switchover: Traffic - Monday, Sept 13th 15:00 UTC
• 14 Sept: DC Switchover: MediaWiki - Tuesday, Sept 14th 14:00 UTC
• 13-17 Sept (whole week): Brennen → KS 🪕🎻

October

• 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day  (US Staff with reqs)

📚 Book club/🍱 Lunch and Learn

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Book_club

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering_Productivity_Team/Lunch_and_learn#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn

🔥🚂Train

https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/

https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/

•   7 Jun - wmf.9 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 14 Jun - No train (WMF All-Hands)
• 21 Jun - wmf.11 - Dan + Jeena
• 28 Jun - wmf.12 - Brennen + Dan
•   5 Jul - No train (WMF holiday)
• 12 Jul - wmf.14 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 19 Jul - wmf.15 - Antoine + Ahmon
• 26 Jul - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
•   2 Aug - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
•   9 Aug - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
• 16 Aug - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
• 23 Aug - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 30 Aug - wmf.21 - …
•   6 Sep - wmf.22 - …
• 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover
• 20 Sep - wmf.1 - …
• 27 Sep - wmf.2 - …

📤 Train update email

https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Trainupdate-email

https://wheelofnames.com/#

• 2021-05-17: Jeena
• 2021-05-24: Brennen
• 2021-06-09: Brennen for real this time
• 2021-07-14: Dan <3
• 2021-08-06: Mukunda <3
• 2021-08-13/16: Tyler :(

✨ Standup! ✨

Ahmon

• Updates: 
  • php-fpm always restart test
  • Continuing work on mediawiki-multiversion image build and related tasks
  • Thinking about image testing.
• Blocked by:
  • nada
• Blocking:
  • nil

Antoine

out

Brennen

• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • A long list of miscellaneous GitLab tasks
    • Opening up to all users probably waits some SREs to be back from vacation
    • Talked through ACL stuff with Mukunda, going to get an export of gerrit stuffs
    • Patch update for MIME-type-at-end-of-name bug: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288631
  • dev-images: Move apache2 image to buster
  • Meeting up with Greg on Friday?
  • Index cards: https://www.jetpens.com/Correct-Joho-Index-Cards-9.1-x-5.5-cm-Blank-100-Cards/pd/13500

Dan

Out

Jeena

• Blocked by:
  •  
• Blocking:
• Updates:

7/28-8/10 planned work

• PET Expedition (Done)
• Refine scap backport task (done)
• Workflow diagrams for preview environment (In progress)
• train (In progress)

ad-hoc:

• reviews for ci/deployment charts (in progress)
• Adding logs to stdout for dev images (in review)
• dev images to buster (done)
• move mw-cli to gitlab (done)

Mukunda

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• Updates:
  • train stuff...
  • Played with apache superset to bump up against it's limitations.
  • Building a demo with vue.js and d3.js after all.
    • Now with more experience to do it right now.
    • Demo to the team next week as a lunch and learn?

Tyler

• Blocked by:
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Blocking:
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Updates:
  • Testing restarts of all php-fpm this morning: very exciting for me <333
  • 🤝 Hiring updates
    • Hiring task: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuFAyfCnYRzpTmgaBgCjOcweWt76FDw1V9tlYLsGgYE/edit#
    • Interview panel: Ahmon, Jeena, David Caro
    • 281 applications, 79 left to review
    • Another week before we start talking to folks, probably
  • ❌ Production errors workboard
    • Gave a list of all "groups" in phab that have been tagged on the Production errors workboard for the past year: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ynXA2-eulFX2kMK7IcvqucDyyAsXrtQGGRdDFhKLO1E/edit#gid=0
    • Next stop: which groups have blocked the train most, average task age, average age unassigned: etc.
  • 📚 Reading: https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/development-and-deployment-at-facebook.pdf
  • TODO: put values on mw.org
  • Other news: Moved from a thinkpad x220 -> x230t: living in the future!