Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-02-16
2022-02-16 edit
✨Values✨ edit
- Integrity
- quality
- freedom and open
- developer focus
- #together
ERC Update edit
- Thcipriani is the point of contact
- The goal is to create Communication guidelines
🏆 Wins edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Jan '22 edition
- New release of Java Gearman plugin
- Gerrit upgrade! (3.3.6 → 3.3.9)
- Ahmon debugging of contint1001
- mwcli coolest tool honorable mention
- Production benchmarks of yaml parsing for MW
- New test environment progress for GitLab
- Plan for trusted runners coming together
- Scap prep auto working in beta (on the way to prod)
- Gerrit 3.3→3.4 prework to solve javascript incompat
- CI-agents upgrade prep for stretch -> bullseye
- MWCLI progress and GoLand for IntelliJ
- Feb '22 edition
- logspam-watch is fast now because Ahmon is good at computers and can tolerate modifying Perl
- Wrapping up MediaWiki settings loader expedition caching—abstractions for MediaWiki config settings—they can declare how they're cached and how long (with probablistic early expiry to help with lock contention)
- Mukunda has freed himself from train :D
- Jaime joined, already has a scap patchset
- Things we didn't do but benefit from: New GitLab test instance in devtools project: https://gitlab.devtools.wmcloud.org/ --> same puppet as prod!
- Tyler's DigitalOcean exploration spike
- Scap prep auto! is neat <3
- Antoine's qemu learnings!
- moving train-dev to helm3
😶 Let's keep this empty edit
📅 Vacations/Important dates edit
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2022
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off
February edit
- 1 Feb: Jaime's first day!
- 7-11 Feb: Antoine
- 8-(+2-3 days?) Feb: Dan is out for a minor surgery
- 9-11 Feb: Brennen—sitting in a hot spring
- 21 Feb: U.S. Presidents' Day (US Staff with reqs)
March edit
- 18 Mar: U.S. March Holiday (US Staff with reqs)
🚀 Onboarding Jaime edit
- Doc: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Onboarding/Jaime
- Task list: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5631/
- ^^ SOO EMPTY 😩
- Please add tasks!
- Focus on scap and train-dev -- getting tasks from Ahmon
📚 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
🔥🚂 Train edit
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- 18 Oct - wmf.5 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 25 Oct - wmf.6 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 1 Nov - wmf.7 - Dan + Mukunda
- 8 Nov - wmf.8 - NO TRAIN (Veteran's day Nov 11)
- 15 Nov - wmf.9 - Jeena + Dan
- 22 Nov - wmf.10 - NO TRAIN
- 29 Nov - wmf.11 - Brennen + Jeena
- 6 Dec - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 13 Dec - wmf.13 - Antoine + Ahmon
- 20 Dec - wmf.14 - NO TRAIN
- 27 Dec - wmf.15 - NO TRAIN
- 3 Jan - wmf.16 - Mukunda + Antoine
- 10 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Mukunda
- 17 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Mukunda
- 24 Jan - wmf.19 - Brennen + Jeena
- 31 Jan - wmf.20 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 7 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Ahmon
- 14 Feb - wmf.22 - Antoine + Jeena
- 21 Feb - wmf.23 - Dan + Antoine (President's day on Monday)
- 28 Feb - wmf.24 - Brennen + Dan
- 6 Mar - wmf.25 - Ahmon + Brennen
- 13 Mar - wmf.26 - Jeena + Ahmon
- 20 Mar - wmf.27 - Antoine + Jeena
- 27 Mar - wmf.28 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine
📤 Train update email edit
- Sent by train conductor next week
Done
