2023-07-26

Last time

🏆 Wins

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

Jul '23 edition

Bunch of GitLab accounts created ~200 accounts
- Tooling for recurring account syncing
Default phabricator.wikimedia.org frontpage has a "I need access or permissions to..." tab panel - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/W2984
Building out a deployment pipeline
Good reviews and talented engineers on the team
Desiloed
Did math!
JohnBond upgrading to puppet 7
Contint servers upgraded to in-warranty hardware! (Dzahn, John Bond, Jelto)—ssds! zuul-merger should be way faster
git::clone puppet resource updated! LDAP group sync stuff
Great team + smart people + good reviews
^ +1 + Daniel Zahn, Eoghan, Ahmon's review
Meeting yesterday with Dzahn, grateful for him reaching out, having a plan for phab migration stuff
Mention of doing a git blame on stacktraces. Experiment in scap was https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/tools/scap/+/773870
Phatality digging
BuildKitd allowlist is deployed to production
Phab backlog cleaning
Boldly deleting wikipages!
Andre has phab-root, gerrit-root, contint-root
Toronto is beautiful :)
List of supergroupers (DX)
Win-in-progress:
- phatality stacktrace thing
- l10n-bot progress; todo talk to nikerabbit
Redeployed to group1 right before the call and learning k8s
Rescued a segfault in beta cluster via "zbacktrace" magic
Prepare the migration of zuul Buster→Bullseye

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

😶 Let's keep these empty

Code review

+1'd gerrit changes
[author_username=dancy&not[author_username]=Dduvall&not[author_username]=Hashar&not[author_username]=brennen&not[author_username]=jnuche&not[author_username]=jhuneidi GitLab changes to releng/* not authored by us]
- Figure out:

1. Where dev-images are used 2. Who is using them 3. How to let the people using it make changes safely

Gerrit Access requests

Gerrit access requests

GitLab 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

July 2023

03-04 Mon: U.S. July Holiday, US staff with reqs
05 Wed & 06 Thu: Andre CZ public holidays
06 Wed–11 Tue: Dancy out (wedding, not mine)
14 Fri Antoine (Bastille Day, France national holiday)
18 Tue - 21 Fri Jaime
25Tue-28Fri Andre less available (conference)
25 Tue–28 Fri Brennen
27 Thr - 28 Fri Dan
23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D :D
28 Fri: Brennen probably out for RockyGrass 🪕
31 Mon Jul – 21 Mon Aug Antoine

August 2023

31 Mon Jul – 21 Mon Aug – Antoine
23 Fri Jun–18 Fri Aug: Jeena → Mongolia :D :D :D
07 Fri: Brennen flying back from NYC
09 Wed: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, US staff with reqs
11 Fri: Brennen out for Folks Fest (?)
7-11 Mon-Fri: Dan out for family vacation
27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)

September 2023

26 Aug–05 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
13 Weds–17 Sun: Brennen → KS (approximate)

October 2023

🔥🚂 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
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 – Jeena + Dan (Brennen out, Jaime out)
12 Jun – wmf.13 – Jaime + Jeena
19 Jun – wmf.15 – Cancelled for offsite
26 Jun – wmf.16 – Brennen + Jaime (Jeena out)
3 Jul – wmf.17 – Antoine + Brennen (3rd + 4th holidays)
10 Jul – wmf.18 – Dan + Antoine (Ahmon out)
17 Jul – wmf.19 – Ahmon+Dan (Brennen out Friday)
24 Jul – wmf.20 – Jaime+Ahmon
31 Jul – wmf.21 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out) (Ahmon volunteered)
7 Aug – wmf. 22 – No train
14 Aug - wmf.23 – Brennen+Ahmon (Jeena out, Antoine out)
21 Aug - wmf.24 – (brennen out, Jeena out, Antoine out)

Team discussions

Private repos

Beware of precedent with labs/private.git on Gerrit which is public! Naming is hard Ahmon emphased Gitlab call them "private" so probably better to stick to the same jargon.

Sprint!

Old 'n' busted: Release-Engineering-Team (They Live 🕶️🧟)
New hotness: Release-Engineering-Team (Escape Goats🐐)

Other tasks/unsure

Missing tasks

Gerrit:operations/* investigation
Document the problem in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300939

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