Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-08-02

2023-08-02

• Last time

🏆 Wins

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

Aug '23 edition

• Developer Satisfaction Survey got presented
• GitLab repo archiving script \o/

🌻 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

• What do with dev-images?
  • Lots of base images for CI testing MediaWiki
  • TODO: file a task about this for later—move to a single pipeline

Gerrit Access requests

• Gerrit access requests

Private repo requests

TODO: figure out a phab query for this

GitLab Access requests

• Accounts and auth -
• 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

August 2023

• 31 Mon Jul – 21 Mon Aug – Antoine
• 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
• 11 Fri: Brennen out for Folks Fest (?)
• 7-11 Mon-Fri: Dan out for family vacation
• 27 Aug–04 Sep: Brennen (🔥)
• a few days somewhere around end of August: Andre

September 2023

• 26 Aug–05 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
• 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

• "team partnerships for community projects"