Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-04-24
2023-04-24 edit
🏆 Wins/winterrogation edit
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Apr 2024
- new puppetserver in devtools!
- phorge inbound mail patches upstream
- Phorge PoC patch to thwart webcrawlers—every line number is a separate page
- Phabricator 6 mo stale ticket pings
- Hiding non-canonical diffusion links WIP
- Phab deploy!
- Default search hints to advanced search: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/advanced/
- Gerrit 3.7 upgrade had a slow down ( https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355529 ) which turned out to be a DoS vector ( https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/321784734 ). Upstream solved it and released the patch in 3.8 on Sunday. I have upgraded on Monday morning and... it works!
- Scap user interactions consolidated into two functions
- /srv/mediawiki/php symlink uses is dead \o/
- nice.
- Train-dev gerrit auto-upgrade
- Scap handles pending rollback state from helm
- SpiderPig demo
- Patchdemo is running in k8s
- https://test.catalyst-qte.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Phab/Phorge translations are going again, ish
- scap release process: Added sanity checks to avoid surprises
- scap backport: Improved behavior on bad change number input.
- train-dev: Up-to-date docker compose plugin is required now
- scap backport: support deployable non-production branch backport \o/
- phabricator upstream patches for error log explosions
- phabricator -- patch for restricting visibility of priority field
- catalyst deploying extensions with a MediaWiki environment
Stuff from last time edit
📅 Vacations/Important dates edit
- https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2024
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Time_off (page needs updating for Dayforce)
- Mon 01 Apr: Andre, Jaime (German holiday)
- Wed 03 Apr: Dancy PTO
- Fri 05 Apr - Tues 09 Apr: Brennen
- Fri 05 Apr–Fri 12 Apr -- Tyler, eclipse viewing
- Mon 22 Apr: Global holiday, all staff
- Fri 26 Apr: Brennen PTO
- Apr 29 - May 02: Andre less available before Hackathon
- Apr 29 - May 3 Antoine
- Weds May 1 - May 9: Brennen (Hackathon, working but expect limited comms)
- [FYI: May03-05 Hackathon]
- Wed May 8th - May 10th: Antoine (Victory Day, Ascencion Day, + 1 vacation)
- Thurs 9th (holiday), Fri 10th (holiday moved from the 1st): Jaime
- Mon May 20th - Pentecost Day: Antoine
- Fri 24 May: Dancy PTO
- Mon 27 May: Memorial Day (US staff with reqs)
- A few days around July 4: Brennen
- 25 Aug - 03 Sep: Brennen
Future edit
🔥🚂 Train edit
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
- https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar
Rotation edit
- 3 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.8 – No Train offsite
- 11 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.9 – Brennen + Antoine (Jaime out)
- 18 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.10 – Ahmon + Brennen (Jaime out)
- 25 Dec – 1.42.0-wmf.11 – No Train
- 1 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.12 – Dan + Ahmon (Jaime out)
- 8 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.13 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime out)
- 15 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.14 – Jaime + Jeena
- 22 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.15 – Antoine + Jaime
- 29 Jan – 1.42.0-wmf.16 – Ahmon + Antoine(Brennen out Wed–Fri)
- 05 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.17 – Brennen + Ahmon
- 12 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.18 – Brennen+Antoine (Friday)
- 19 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.19 – Jeena+Brennnen
- 26 Feb – 1.42.0-wmf.20 – Dan + Jeena
- 04 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.21 – Jaime + Dan (Antoine out)
- 11 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.22 – Antoine + Jaime (Dan out)
- 18 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.23 – Ahmon + Antoine
- 25 Mar – 1.42.0-wmf.24 – Jeena + Ahmon
- 1 Apr – 1.42.0-wmf.25 – Jaime + Jeena
- 8 Apri – 1.42.0-wmf.26 – Antoine + Jaime (Tyler out)
- 15 Apr – 1.43.0-wmf.1 – Ahmon + Antoine
- 22 Apr – 1.43.0-wmf.2 – Brennen + Ahmon (Global holiday Monday; Brennen out Friday)
- 29 Apr – 1.43.0-wmf.3 – Jaime + Brennen (Antoine out Wednesday; Jaime floating holiday to Friday; Hackathon over the weekend)
- 6 May (6-10) – 1.43.0-wmf.4 – Jeena + Jaime (Jaime out Thursday; Brennen out; Antoine out)
- 13 May (13-17) - 1.43.0-wmf.5 – Antoine + Andre (Jeena as backup)
- 20 May (20-24) - 1.43.0-wmf.6 – Andre + Antoine (you can do it Andre!) (Antoine out Mon, Ahmon out Fri)
- 27 May (27-31) - 1.43.0-wmf.7 – Ahmon + Andre (Memorial day Monday)
- 03 Jun (03-07) - 1.43.0-wmf.8 – Brennen + Ahmon
- 10 Jun (10-14) - 1.43.0-wmf.9 – Jaime + Brennen
- 17 Jun (17-21) – 1.43.0-wmf.10 –
- 24 Jun (24-28) – 1.43.0-wmf.11 –
Team Discussions edit
- Developer Satisfaction for us: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XEMEM7trucs-B2OwrEswdbysnst7-CyKuyfWsmdEpaM/edit
Let's do some inbox triage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7vRDrcVnt8OI/#R
🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions edit