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2023-05-24

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  • Last time (look at us having meetings on a normal cadence, feelsgoodman)

🏆 Wins

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
May '23 edition
  • draft hypotheses are drafted
  • Andre on team (nascently)
  • Local working phorge install—legalpad is the only area of divergance
  • Killing the dockerfile in blubber—adding functional tests
  • Some work under Migrate mediawiki/ namespace from Gerrit to GitLab
  • Gerrit security update
  • Jeena got tests to pass for scap backport
  • Doxygen no more deployment of gh-pages branch (saves us 1GB of junk :D)
  • GitLab spam mitigation
  • Nascent plan for MediaWiki under GitLab
  • 🍅🥬🫑 My garden is planted
  • Phorge is on devtools
  • doc publishing on GitLab is working \o/
  • last night I have added to Gerrit support for Patch Demo (tool used to spin wikis) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332474#8874936
  • 💰 Won playing Blackjack at the casino last weekend
  • scap backport integration tests!

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep these empty

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Code review

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Gerrit Access requests

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GitLab Access requests

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📅 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

May 2023

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* 01 Mon: Antoine, labour day

June 2023

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  • 7 Wed–9 Fri: Jaime
  • 8 Thu–9 Fri: Brennen → Apogaea
  • 19 Mon: Juneteenth, US staff with reqs
  • 23 Fri–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D

July 2023

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

August 2023

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  • 23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D :D :D
  • 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 for Folks Fest
  • 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)

September 2023

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

🔥🚂 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
  • 24 Apr – wmf.6 – Jeena + Jaime
  • 1 May – wmf.7 – Brennen + Jeena
  • 8 May – wmf.8 – Antoine + Brennen (Ahmon out + Antoine Out 8th)
  • 15 May – wmf.9 – Ahmon + Antoine (Dan out + Chad out)
  • 22 May – wmf.10 – Chad + Ahmon (Dan out + Jeena out 26th)
  • 29 May – wmf.11 – Dan + Chad (Memorial Day 29th)
  • 5 Jun – wmf.12 – Jaime Jeena + Dan (Brennen out, Jaime out)
  • 12 Jun – wmf.13 – Jaime + Jeena
  • 26 Jun – wmf.14 (Jeena out)
  • 3 Jul – wmf.15

Team discussions

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Ops sync

  • GitLab: OIDC for auth for GitLab, needs testing

June 19: offsite—https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MdA_mOcilUdEQT65iPZRopDykMgTt7Xq093iWhA64zg/edit#heading=h.vla9ypqu2vu3

Sprint Planning

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Release-Engineering-Team (They Live 🕶️🧟) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6547/ May 30–Jun 16th

~Goals

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  • Server migrations

Small things

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  • Scap self-installer—spurious error messages
  • Library to "create releases" bump versions in a consistent way—scap, blubber duplicate code
  • Scap locks cleanup functionality
  • Automating CI-Jenkins
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