Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2021-09-14
2021-09-14 edit
✨Values✨ edit
- Developer focused
- Freedom and open source
- Integrity
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Quality
😶 Let's keep this empty edit
📅 Vacations/Important dates edit
- 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
September edit
- Somewhere vaguely around US Labor Day weekend: Brennen camping
- 3 Sept: Day out in the morning.
- 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 🪕🎻
- 15 Sept (afternoon): Tyler
- 17 Sept: Tyler
October edit
- 11 Oct: Mon Indigenous Peoples' Day (US Staff with reqs)
November edit
- 2 Nov: Election day (US Staff with reqs)
- 11 Nov: Veterans day (US Staff with reqs)
- 25-26 Nov: Thanksgiving (US Staff with reqs)
December edit
- 24-31 December: End of Year Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
📚 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#Present_a_Lunch_and_Learn
🌠 The More You RelEng edit
https://time.releng.team -> https://timerelengteam.toolforge.org/🌠
🔥🚂 Train edit
- 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 - Mukunda + Ahmon
- 6 Sep - wmf.22 - YAK 2 The Future
- 13 Sep - wmf.23 - DC Switchover Antoine + Mukunda
- 20 Sep - wmf.1 - Dan + Antoine
- 27 Sep - wmf.2 - Jeena + Dan
- 4 Oct - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jeena
- 11 Oct - wmf.4 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
- 8 Nov - wmf.8 -
- 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
- 22 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
- 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
- 27 Dec - wmf.17 - NO TRAIN
- 3 Jan - wmf.18 - Dan + Mukunda
- 10 Jan - wmf.19 - Jeena + Dan
📤 Train update email edit
- 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 :( </3
- 2021-08-20/23: Jeena <3
- 2021-08-27/30: Mukunda <3
- 2021-09- 17/20: Ahmon <3
- 2021-09-24/27: Brennen <3
TEAM VISION RETURNETH: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12doOQaoZIYsIhozCOyDgLg6PQAae5ZhFf_WJA6Uy9O4/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287
✨ Standup! ✨ edit
Ahmon edit
- Updates:
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
Antoine edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train this week
- Some Gerrit task
- Archiva: check with andrew otto
Brennen edit
- Blocked by:
- Upstream release of GitLab 14.3 for configuring session duration in a non-hacky way
- Blocking:
- Non WMF/WMDE/NDA users who would like to sign up for GitLab
- Updates:
- Organized GitLab workboard by some rough categories: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/gitlab/
- Progress on GitLab usernames: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/gitlab-ansible/+/714382
- Jelto's moving some GitLab stuff to Puppet
Dan edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Met with Daniel Kinzler and Ahmon re: mediawiki configuration refactoring
- Going to start implementing next scap k8s deploy compat stuff, `scap backport [change_url]`
- Did some mind mapping around what to do about our image build toolchain and the GitLab migration. TL;DR let's do a sprint to see if Cloud Native Buildpacks will work for us!
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291017
- Let's schedule a sprint (maybe week of Oct 4?)
Jeena edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Planned work for next two weeks
- Add k8s to train env: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287993 (In review)
- Preview Env Workflow: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T283893 (In progress)
- Automate release of mw-cli: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290335 (Addshore did this :) )
- PET expedition
- interviews
- Gitlab sprint starting today
Mukunda edit
- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
Tyler edit
- Blocked by:
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Blocking:
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Updates:
- 🤝 Hiring updates
- Hiring task: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kuFAyfCnYRzpTmgaBgCjOcweWt76FDw1V9tlYLsGgYE/edit#
- Interview panel: Ahmon, Jeena, David Caro
- Stats:
- 432 477 571 applications
- 116 16 0 left to review
- 6 4 0 recruiter screen
- 8 4 1 in hiring manager screen (2/5 so far, more tomorrow and Monday)
- 1 getting task
- 2 final round
- 🤝 Hiring updates
- ✅ TODOs
- Done Set up Yak kickoff meeting FRIDAY!!!
- Done Meeting with Temi, new PM
- Training requests:
- Editing, Comm Tech, Product analytics
- Not done GKE Budget
- Wolfgang is setting us up, I guess
- Done Résumé review (Goal Candidates == 0)
- Done Talk more with Miriam about change failure: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289567
- Not done Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
- Not done More shared team vision work for ~Sept
- Not done Add always empty review queue to dashboard