2023-10-11

Last time

🏆 Wins

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

Oct '23 edition

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347577 digging into diffusion hosting sorting
Bitergia user data is now a webapp and we can use it
Project Catalyst is underway -- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalyst
RelEngers can downtime things for phabricator deploys without SRE (although cookbooks are less fiddly)
Ran train with Andre!

OKR update

Last week

The six questions I answer week-by-week about our work. This is pretty much all CTPO/VP/Director-types see for what we're doing. If there are specific things to call out here, let's do.

Progress update on the hypothesis for the week Support work only this week T348146 – publish coverage reports for ipoid T347467 – Created GitLab project for growth graphed gerrit repo growth over time Any new metrics related to the hypothesis Repositories on Gerrit decreased (2005 last week → 2004 this week) Projects on GitLab increased (1399 last week → 1413 this week) Any emerging blockers or risks No Any unresolved dependencies - do you depend on another team that hasn’t already given you what you need? Are you on the hook to give another team something you aren’t able to give right now? No Have there been any new learnings from the hypothesis? No Are you working on anything else outside of this hypothesis? If so, what? What was accomplished in this essential workstream this week? If nothing, why? Phabricator deployment for 7 low priority fixes 2 medium priority fixes 1 high priority fix T336105 Reports causing runtime exception logspam Closed security hole: T303829 Disallow adding Project Tags in the Subscribers field Train/Backport deployments 1.41.0-wmf.29 394 Patches ▁▂▂█▆ in 94 repos by 79 authors 1 Rollbacks █▁▁▁█ 1 Days of delay ▁▁▁▁█ 2 Blockers ▁▂█▂▁ Does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? If so, what? No

This week

Progress update on the hypothesis for the week

Any new metrics related to the hypothesis

Any emerging blockers or risks

Any unresolved dependencies - do you depend on another team that hasn’t already given you what you need?

Are you on the hook to give another team something you aren’t able to give right now?

Have there been any new learnings from the hypothesis?

Are you working on anything else outside of this hypothesis? If so, what?

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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

Small doc update for Bazel https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/19676

😶 Let's keep these empty

📅 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

October 2023

2-16 Oct: Jaime
02-03 Mon-Tue Oct: Dan
9 Oct: Indigenous people's day
19/20 Oct: Andre partially off (2x half-day)
27 Oct: Jaime

Nov 2023

16 Nov: Jaime
20–24: dancy taking thanksgiving week off
23, 24: US holiday staff with reqs

Dec 2023

a few days after December offsite: Andre
25–Jan 1: End of year global holiday

Future

15Jan - 15Mar: Andre

🔥🚂 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 – Ahmon+Jaime (Jeena out, Antoine out)
21 Aug - wmf.24 – Dan(brennen out, Jeena out, Antoine out)
28 Aug – wmf.25 – Jeena+Dan
04 Sep – wmf.26 – Antoine+Jeena
11 Sep – wmf.27 – Jaime+Antoine+Andre as lurker!
18 Sep – wmf.28 – Brennen+Jaime
- Logspam-watch needs some attention
- Every deploy is rebuilding l10n
25 Sep – 1.42.0-wmf.1 – Dan + Brennen
2 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.2 – Jeena + Dan (Jaime Out)
9 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.3 – Antoine + Jeena (Jaime Out)
- Vector skin issue, backport this morning!
16 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.4 – Brennen + Antoine
23 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.5 – Ahmon + Brennen
30 Oct – 1.42.0-wmf.6 – Dan + Ahmon

Team discussions

Team health survey incoming

Hypothesis work Q2

MediaWiki testing
Gerrit cleanup! https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-migration-stats#gerrit-repos
- Repos without tests
- Repos that haven't been touched in years
- How do we do that...? :D
Support operations/* migrations
Supporting Catalyst

Next sprint

MediaWiki testing spike
Gerrit cleanup! https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/gitlab-migration-stats#gerrit-repos
- Repos without tests
- Repos that haven't been touched in years
- How do we do that...? :D
- Checking commits, reviews, contacting email several times
  - Debian had a maintainer ping email every half-year
- Different priorities
  - Stuff running in production
  - Stuff we can't find running anywhere
- What's deployed?
  - Kubernetes we know

Offsite!

Confirmed budget with travel

Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2023-10-11

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