Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2024-06-05

2024-06-05

• Last time

🏆 Wins/winterrogation

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

June 2024

• "Wikimedia Deployment Scheduler" tool is now linked from Gerrit changes and helps add things to backport windows. https://schedule-deployment.toolforge.org/ More at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/VT44HXYMEYUNDVIGGLII7XZZTNCXA52S/
• Improved httpbb failed header check output: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/software/httpbb/+/1037156
• scap sync-world: k8s: image build errors are now fatal. https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/scap/-/merge_requests/329
• Reggie manifest cleaner deployed (results in one week)
• Restrict some scap subcommands to deploy servers only https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/scap/-/merge_requests/331

 (plus followup from Jaime)

• Yesterdays phab deploy mitigating some phab vandalism vectors
• GitLab version 17 upgrades—deprecated endpoints in our tools https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365675

📅 Vacations/Important dates

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)

• Wed Jun 5- Sun 9: Brennen PTO
• Mon Jun 10–Fri 14: Tyler
• Thu Jun 13-Sat 15: Andre less available (DevConf.cz)
• Mon Jun 17-Fri 21: Bryan PTO
• Wed Jun 19: Juneteenth (US staff with reqs)
• July 1-9: Jaime
• July 4-5: US staff holiday
• July 4-5: Andre (festival; CZ Holiday)
• July 12–15: Ahmon
• July 12-22: Dan
• Aug 05-09: Dan (I haven't told Tyler yet, shhh)
• Fri 09 Aug – Global holiday: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
• Sun 25 Aug - 03 Sep: Brennen

Future

• Sept 19-20, 23: Bryan PTO
• Sept??? Jeena

🔥🚂 Train

https://versions.toolforge.org/

https://train-blockers.toolforge.org/

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar

Rotation

• 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; Ahmon backup Thu)
• 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 – Dduvall + Ahmon (Brennen out)
• 10 Jun (10-14) - 1.43.0-wmf.9 – Brennen + Ahmon
• 17 Jun (17-21) – 1.43.0-wmf.10 – Jaime + Brennen
• 24 Jun (24-28) – 1.43.0-wmf.11 – Jeena + Jaime
• 01 Jul (02–04) – 1.43.0-wmf.12 – Antoine + Jeena

Team Discussions

• Comms plan again: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eawZrsQFQFOH_4lcG_dfUtSdxNuuFkqWhU_-_p0AbL0/edit
  • [x] Timeline
  • Anticipated FAQ Crowdsourcing
    • How did we end up in this situation

• [x] Let's close out the Yakisfaction Sprint: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/7155/query/all/

Let's do some inbox triage: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/7vRDrcVnt8OI/#R

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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