Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2022-09-07

2022-09-07

✨Values✨

...what are they again?

• #together
• Quality
• Freedom & Open Source
• Integrity
• Developer Focus

🏆 Wins

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

Aug '22 edition

• Train-blockers toolforge scrapes from phab \o/
• Nagged GitLab into updating their FAQ: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/363212#note_1066797431
• Clare used scap backport for real
• Phabricator (probably) deploys from scap 3
• Beta exists still
• Chad re-earning t-shirt
• Upgraded Gerrit from 3.4.4 to 3.4.5
• Scap-backport improvements, seeing increased use
• Renewed GitLab relationship!
• Moved Gerrit replica server!
• Yet another successful train, automatic edition this time!
• Team reviews are fast!
• Gitlab JWT STUFF MERGEDDDDDD \o/

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

• https://github.com/docker/docker-py/pull/2900
• https://github.com/jenkinsci/git-plugin/pull/1322

😶 Let's keep this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

September

• 2 Sep: Thcipriani
• 29Aug/2Sep: Antoine is present but kids are back to school
• 5 Sept: U.S. Labor Day (U.S. Staff with Reqs)
• 1-6 Sept: Brennen (🔥)
• 9-19 Sept: Jaime
• ~14-18 Sept: Brennen (⛺🪕)

October

• 10 Oct: Indigenous Peoples' Day (Columbus Day)

November

• 8 Nov: Election Day (US staff with reqs)
• 11 Nov: Veteran's Day (US staff with reqs)
• 24 Nov: Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)
• 25 Nov: Day after Thanksgiving (US staff with reqs)

December

• 23 Dec: Christmas Eve (Observed in lieu) (US staff with reqs)
• 24 Dec–31 Dec: Global end of year holiday

🔥🚂 Train

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

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

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

• 22 Aug - wmf.26 - Antoine + Chad
• 29 Aug - wmf.27 - Dan + Antoine (Brennen out)
• 5 Sep - wmf. 28 - NOT Jaime ;) — Jeena + Dan (Brennen out 'til Tues)
• 12 Sep - 1.40.0-wmf.1 – Ahmon + Jeena (Jaime, Brennen Out Wed)
• 19 Sep - wmf.2 - Jaime + Ahmon
• 26 Sep - wmf.3 - Brennen + Jaime
• 3 Oct - wmf.4 - Chad + Brennen
• 10 Oct - wmf. 5 - Dan + Chad (Monday holiday)
• 17 Oct - wmf.6 - Antoine + Dan
• 24 Oct - wmf.7 - Jaime + Antoine
• 31 Oct - wmf.8 - Jeena + Jaime
• 7 Nov - No Train (Election Day Tues.; Veteran's Day Fri.)
• 14 Nov - wmf.10 - Brennen + Jeena
• 21 Nov - No Train (Thanksgiving Thu–Fri)
• 28 Nov - wmf.12 - Ahmon + Brennen
• 5 Dec - wmf. 13 - Chad + Ahmon
• 12 Dec - wmf.14 - Antoine + Chad
• 19 Dec - No Train
• 26 Dec - No Train

Workboard Cleanup

• https://phab.releng.team
• We had: Next, Doing, Priority Backlog → when do we use these? Unclear.

• Columns and their use:
  • INBOX: default incoming
  • Radar: tasks not currently actionable for the team (watching, blocked, done within our team)
  • Seen: no plans to work on it, not blocking anyone

• Work we plan to do Someday Soon™
  • Priority Backlog: we plan to work on this
  • Blocking: we have no plan to work on this, but we probably have to: we're blocking others

• Work we're doing
  • <Current Sprint>: Anything we're doing

Tech Internship opportunity

• First cohort Q3 (apparently for six months)
• Want to convert these into actual reqs
• Proposals due Sept 22nd
• Are there projects they could work on?
• Questions:
  • Timeline? It will be 40hrs a week for four months.

Kick off recruiting in october Make offers in December Cohorts start in February.

• • Do we get to pick the human?

Ideas

• Logging dashboard -- show only new errors

🍿 Engagement results

• We got individual results for our team
• We track pretty well with Tech, which was less engaged than the overall org
• Won't go over everything, but here are the big places where we diverge:
  • 🤗 The good:
    • Performance: 24% better than tech (how your perf is evaluated)
    • Change: 12% better than tech (we like annual planning changes)
  • 😟 The bad:
    • Values: 26% worse than the rest of tech (things like: I know what these values mean and how we use them)
      • https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/values/
    • I have access to the things I need to do my job well: 64% worse than the rest of tech
      • sudo :D
      • Maybe we do a session: let's have some dedicated time
      • When we ask for stuff it takes a long time to get it
      • Maybe teams don't need as much permission as us
      • When other teams are well resourced: we have more resources, too
      • Building new debian package, puppet changes, I put off doing these things due to lack of access

Sprinting

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6100/

• Total tasks: 26
• Still open: 12
• Closed: 11
• In Progress: 3

Phab

What work remains on our goals?

• Phabricator git-ssh is shut down, documentation is up-to-date, and an announcement has been sent
  • Announcement to send...TODAY! Thcipriani
• Puppet is running without errors on the new machine
  • Puppet is running, but there are errors hoping they go away with a deploy
• We deploy Phabricator to the new machine
  • devtools works as of yesterday
  • Today: ask daniel about which target to deploy to
• We schedule a maintenance window and all production traffic runs from the new host

Goal: Next Wednesday

Scap Medley

What work remains on our goals?

• Scap prep, scap backport and scap sync all use the same locking

Not done (need review on latest changes)

• php-fpm restart reports progress to deployers

Done.

• MVP deploy container images via scap

Done. Needs the feature flags enabled in /etc/scap.cfg in prod.