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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_More_You_Know

https://time.releng.team -> https://timerelengteam.toolforge.org/🌠

🔥🚂 Train edit

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 - 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

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

TEAM VISION RETURNETH: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12doOQaoZIYsIhozCOyDgLg6PQAae5ZhFf_WJA6Uy9O4/edit#slide=id.g15105b408d_0_287 

✨ Standup! ✨ edit

Ahmon edit

  • Updates: 
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  • Blocking:

Antoine edit

  • Blocked by:
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  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Train this week
    • Some Gerrit task
      • Archiva: check with andrew otto

Brennen edit


Dan edit

  • Blocked by:
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  • Blocking:
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  • 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!

Jeena edit

Mukunda edit

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Tyler edit

    • ✅ TODOs
    •   Done Set up Yak kickoff meeting FRIDAY!!!
    •   Done Meeting with Temi, new PM
    • Training requests:
      • Editing, Comm Tech, Product analytics
    •  N 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
    •  N Not done Find out if we can continuously deliver (Mediawiki)
    •  N Not done More shared team vision work for ~Sept
    •  N Not done Add always empty review queue to dashboard