Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-04-13

2022-04-13 edit

✨Values✨ edit

DF, I, F&OS, Q, #T

ERC Update edit

  • ERC team members are giving feedback (feeback deadline closed)

πŸ† Wins edit

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Apr '22 edition
  • Jamie deployed the train by his lonesome today -- and found bugs \o/
  • Jaime rolled back the train
  • Temi learned about GPG keys
  • Brain still works, mostly
  • Fixed bug in proxy balancing in scap

😢 Let's keep this empty edit

πŸ“… 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

April edit

  • 1 Apr: U.S. April Holiday (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
  • 4–8 Apr: Brennen out sick
  • 7-11 Apr: Jaime
  • 11–15 Apr: Antoine
  • 17 Apr: Brennen probably traveling some
  • 18-22 Antoine work but kids are in holidays so less availability in my evenings
  • 18-21: Dancy PTO
  • 22 Apr: Earth Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
  • 4-29 Apr: Dan taking last stretch of new parent leave

May edit

  • 23-27 (maybe)?: Tyler
  • 25-27 May: Antoine
  • 30 May: Memorial Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)

June edit

  • ~9-10 Jun: Brennen (Apogaea)

πŸ“š 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

πŸ”₯πŸš‚ 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 (US enters Daylight Saving Time)
  • 20 Mar – 1.39.0-wmf.1, 1.39.0-wmf.2, 1.39.0-wmf.3, 1.39.0-wmf.4 β€”πŸš‚πŸ§ͺ Trainsperiments, ya'll
  • 28 Mar - wmf.5 - Antoine + Jeena
  • 4 Apr - wmf.6 - Jaime!!!! + Antoine
    • Security patch problems
    • Quiet today on group1
  • 11 Apr - wmf.7 - Ahmon + Jaime
  • 18 Apr - wmf.8 - Jeena + Brennen (Antoine can cover UTC mornings)
  • 25 Apr - wmf.9 - Β ??? (Antoine can do)

Hiring Update edit

  • 170 Applicants
  • 43 still active (All but 13 need resume review)
  • 1 person through the tech screen so far

🌱 Sprin{g,t} Cleaning edit

  • INBOX triage
    • 29 tasks currently
    • Do
      • Doing (for things this quarter)
      • Priority Backlog (for things for next sprint)
      • Current sprint (for things...in this sprint)
    • Delegate
      • Untag
      • Move to: Release Engineering (Radar)
    • Defer
      • Soon β†’ Soon
      • Maybe never β†’ Seen
  • Q3 work cleanup
  • Old sprint board cleanup: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5861/