Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-04-05


2023-04-05

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πŸ† Wins

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Apr '23 edition
  • Mr. Widget doesn't seem to have broken again.
  • Job to test train branch cut on a daily basis
  • Successfully debugged an obscure buildkitd -> registry interaction

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😢 Let's keep this empty

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πŸ“… Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2023
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off

April 2023

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  • 7-10: German public holiday (Jaime out)
  • 21 April Global holiday: Earth Day
  • (tentatively) 17–28: Antoine
  • (tentatively) 21 Fri: Brennen β†’ Colorado Burnal Equinox
  • (tentatively) 29 Fri: Brennen β†’ KS

May 2023

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* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day

June 2023

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  • 9 Fri: Brennen β†’ Apogaea
  • 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
  • 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena β†’ Mongolia

July 2023

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  • 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena β†’ Mongolia
  • 03 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
  • 06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
  • 28 Fri: Brennen out part day for RockyGrass

August 2023

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  • 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena β†’ Mongolia
  • 09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
  • 04 Fri: Brennen β†’ NYC (probable half day)
  • 11 Fri: Brennen out part day for Folks Fest
  • 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (πŸ”₯)

September 2023

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  • 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (πŸ”₯)
  • 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen β†’ KS (approximate)

πŸ”₯πŸš‚ Train

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https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar


  • 2 Jan - wmf.17 - Dan + Antoine (Jaime out)
  • 9 Jan - wmf.18 - Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
  • 16 Jan - wmf.19 - Jaime + Jeena
  • 23 Jan - wmf.20 - Brennen + Jaime
  • 30 Jan - wmf.21 - Ahmon + Brennen
  • 6 Feb - wmf.22 - Chad + Ahmon
  • 13 Feb - wmf.23 – Dan + Chad
  • 20 Feb - wmf.24 – Antoine + Dan
  • 27 Feb - wmf.25 – Jaime + Antoine
  • 6 Mar – wmf.26 – Jeena + Jaime
  • 13 Mar – wmf.27 – Brennen + Jeena
  • 20 Mar – wmf.1 – Ahmon + Brennen
  • 27 Mar – wmf.2 – Chad Dan + Ahmon
  • 3 Apr – wmf.3 – Antoine + Dan
  • 10 Apr – wmf.4 – Chad + Antoine
  • 17 Apr – wmf.5 – Jaime + Chad

Team discussions

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  • SiteReleaseCollabEngineering updates?
    • Phorge thing
    • Alerting getting fun
    • GitLab has new disks, backups shouldn't explode for maybe a year, year and a half
    • Some discussion of patches
    • Outstanding questions for contint & doc - pushed to next meeting
  • APP + Timelines
  • Dev environment
    • What does "environment mean"
    • Is this an "elephant" too? "picking" a dev environment
    • How do we limit the blast radius of thisβ€”doing the same goal as 2018