Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2024-11-13

2024-11-13

• Last time

📋 Agenda

• DX owns beta...what does that mean
  • APP started with "to improve beta", but that ended up being changed to avoid people asking hard questions about beta. But all of the planned work is targeted at removing use cases from beta. What is not planned yet is what is left after the in progress projects.
  • Folks with questions can be directed to Levi in the near term
• Old TODOs
• Wins/anti-wins
• Important dates
• Train
• Discussions
  • We have a wish
  • Triage

Old TODOs

• TODO: thcipriani/andre: gerrit policy talk page—followup
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Yczkcjnu474mmczl
  • [ ] send to Wikitech
• TODO: screen/tmux for scap
  • Update documentation (WIP)
    • [-] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code (WIP)
      • [ ] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_deploy_code#Emergency_runbook_for_production_config_changes Brennen
    • [ ] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Backport_windows/Deployers
    • [ ] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests
    • [ ] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scap
  • Needed: email to wikitech
• Emails from DO for alerting: our smtp should work? There's probably a TODO now...
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373548
  • Discussion: Slack
    • https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Slack#Slack_App_approval_process

🏆 Wins/winterrogation

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

Nov 2024

• Beta catalyst announce today
• The Developer Satisfaction Survey proceeds apace
  • In which we learn things about regex and RTL
• Work in progress patch (<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/puppet/+/1085471>) for provisioning PHP 8.1 in deployment-prep. Have a running MediaWiki there using that cherry-picked patch. More at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378752
• 🐷SpiderPig job log sensitive information masking implemented and merged.
• PHP 8.1 images are being built (in parallel)

📅 Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2024

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List#2025

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

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

Before next time we meet

• today OOO: Andre out
• tomorrow OOO: Andre out
• Fri Nov 15 OOO: Bryan
• Fri Nov 15 OOO: Andre out
• Tue Nov 19 WMF: Jeena wikiversary

• Nov: Likely three weeks for Andre once he has sorted out eviction dates and a new flat
• Nov 1: Bryan, Jaime (regional holiday), Antoine (All-Saints)
• Nov 4-5: Andre
• Nov 7: Andre
• Nov 8: Bryan, Jeena, Andre
• Nov 11-15 (and many more vacation days to use, sigh): Andre
• Nov 11 (Mon): Veteran's Day, US staff with reqs, Antoine (WW1 Holiday)
• Nov 15: Bryan, Brennen (maybe, ish)
• Nov 22: Bryan
• Nov 25–29: Tyler, Thanksgiving → KC, Dan, Ahmon
• Nov 28–29 (Thu, Fri): Thanksgiving holiday, US staff with reqs
• Dec 5-6: Bryan
• Dec 4-6: Dan
• Dec 9-13: Offsite
• Dec 16-31: Jaime
• Dec 23: Andre, Jeena
• Dec 24–31 (Tue–Tue): End of Year Holiday, Global Holiday
• Jan 1: New Years Day, Global Holiday
• Jan 2-3: Jeena
• Jan 1-24: Jaime

🔥🚂 Train

https://versions.toolforge.org/

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

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

Rotation

PAST

• 05 Aug (05-09) – 1.43.0-wmf.17 – Jaime + Brennen (Dan out, Global holiday Friday)
• 12 Aug (12–16) – 1.43.0-wmf.18 – Jeena + Jaime (Ahmon out, Antoine out)
• 19 Aug (19–23) – 1.43.0-wmf.19 – Andre + Jeena (Antoine out)
• 26 Aug (26–30) – 1.43.0-wmf.20 – Antoine + Andre (Brennen out)
• 02 Sep (02–06) – 1.43.0-wmf.21 – Ahmon + Antoine (US holiday Monday, Brennen out Tues)
  • Group0 rollback due to warnings and errors
  • Antoine backported fixes earlier + one going out now
• 09 Sep (09–13) – 1.43.0-wmf.22 – Dan + Ahmon
• 16 Sep (16–20) – 1.43.0-wmf.23 – Jaime + Dan (Brennen out)
• 23 Sep (23–27) – 1.43.0-wmf.24 – Brennen + Jaime (andre out)
• 30 Sep (30–Oct 4) – 1.43.0-wmf.25 – Antoine, Brennen (Out: Jeena, Dan, Andre (Tue), Ahmon (Fri), Bryan, Tyler)
• 07 Oct (07–11) – 1.43.0-wmf.26 – Andre, Antoine (Out: Jeena, Bryan (Fri))
• 14 Oct (14–18) – 1.43.0-wmf.27 – Jeena, Andre (Holiday: Mon (US only), Out: Bryan (Fri), Jaime (Fri))
• 21 Oct (21–25) – 1.43.0-wmf.28 – Ahmon, Jeena (Out: Bryan (Fri))
• 28 Oct (28–Nov 1) – 1.44.0-wmf.1 – Dan, Ahmon
• 04 Nov (04–08) – 1.44.0-wmf.2 – Jaime, Dan

NOW and NEXT

• 11 Nov (11–15) – 1.44.0-wmf.3 – Brennen, Jaime (Holiday: Mon (US only), Andre out)
• 18 Nov (18–22) – 1.44.0-wmf.4 – Andre, Brennen
• 25 Nov (25–29) – 1.44.0-wmf.5 – Antoine, Andre (Out: <>, Holiday: Thu, Fri (US only), Tyler out)
• 02 Dec (02–06) – 1.44.0-wmf.6 –
• 09 Dec (09–13) – 1.44.0-wmf.7 – NO TRAIN (offsite)
• 16 Dec (16–20) – 1.44.0-wmf.8 –
• 23 Dec (23–27) – 1.44.0-wmf.9 – NO TRAIN (Holiday: Tue–Fri (Global))
• 30 Dec (30–Jan 03) – 1.44.0-wmf.10 – (oh noes) NO TRAIN (Holiday: Tue–Fri (Global))
• 06 Jan (06–10) – 1.44.0-wmf.11 –

Team Discussions

Reminders

• TODAY: US Staff make your insurance elections
• Team day offsite ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bpVq-ilxIT67fBrQ99Yls-ddw3Co8KjuEldvKOHbKGY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ruk0ti6q190e
  • I'm also the unconference coordinator

Wishlist

• We have a wish... https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Have_a_production_project_on_the_prior_release_for_regression_comparison
  • bd808: what if we had a "wmf/last" or whatever mwdebug instance?

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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