Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/2024-11-20

2024-11-20

• Last time

📋 Agenda

• No meeting next week!
• Old TODOs
• Wins/anti-wins
• Important dates
• Train
• Discussions
  • Triage

Old TODOs

•  Done TODO: Wishlist followup
  • https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Have_a_production_project_on_the_prior_release_for_regression_comparison#c-TCipriani_(WMF)-20241120165400-Questions_and_clarifications
• TODO: thcipriani/andre: gerrit policy talk page—followup
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Yczkcjnu474mmczl bu
  • N Not done 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)
• Catalyst can deploy MediaWiki + WikiLamda orchestrator and evaluator and extension to do things
• Closed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377883: Scap prometheus migration: Reduce the cardinality of scap timers/statsd metrics
• Jenkins least load plugin no longer depends on ssh plugin (thanks to antoine's maintainership)
• List of group -1 open questions started
• Made scap clean to delete old wmf branches (after having fixed a five years old task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218783 ).
• Deleted old wmf branches in Gerrit (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303828)

📅 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

• Fri Nov 22 OOO: Bryan
• Mon–Fri Nov 25–29 OOO: Dan Ahmon Tyler
• Thu, Fri Nov 28, 29: US Thanksgiving, US Staff with reqs

• 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 16-19 Jeena
• Dec 16-31: Jaime
• Dec 23: Andre, Jeena, Antoine
• 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
• 11 Nov (11–15) – 1.44.0-wmf.3 – Brennen, Jaime (Holiday: Mon (US only), Andreas out)

NOW and NEXT

• 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 – Antoine, Andre, Brennen, Jaime, Dan, Ahmon, Jeena
• 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

• Team day offsite ideas: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bpVq-ilxIT67fBrQ99Yls-ddw3Co8KjuEldvKOHbKGY/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.ruk0ti6q190e

🌻 Open source/Upstream contributions

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