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

2023-04-05

• Last time

🏆 Wins

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
  • Multi-arch image support pre-req!
  • Still need access to logs for future debugging/troubleshooting. See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T322579

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep this empty

• +1'd gerrit changes
• Gerrit access requests

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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

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

May 2023

* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day

• 01 Mon–05 Fri: 🎉 Offsite week—Add topics/activities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#
• 08 Mon: Antoine, WW2 armistice
• 08-12: Dancy - school outdoor ed trip
• 15-25: Dan - vacation
• 15-22: Chad - vacation + Hackathon in Athens
• 29 Mon: Memorial Day, US staff with reqs

June 2023

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

July 2023

• 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → 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

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

September 2023

• 26 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
• 13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)

🔥🚂 Train

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

• 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 this—doing the same goal as 2018

• Jeena knowledge transfer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rRRCEFDau-NXzitffjYNSJwXnJ27yU2o6S-QciD4BrA/edit#gid=0
  • When you think, "oh, I should ask jeena" add whatever you're thinking about to this ticket

• K8s CKE training signup— https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M6PYrZMv5rVjuSpOM092L6BIjZwSwLvZJvDgfJFbLvg/edit#gid=0

• Next sprint spike topic—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZS4g3zZR7XzLvJGzlL1WKazu0xWnz6sZY1Y_1z7D1Os/edit#

• Legoktm mentions we oughta have volunteer GitLab admin(s) - seems like a fine idea
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333386