Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Onboarding/Bookmarks

🔖 Bookmarks

This is a simple list of pages we on Release Engineering find ourselves constantly looking for.

Always useful

• Office Contact List
• Quarters – an explanation of the fiscal year, answers the question: what quarter is this?
• mw:Developers/Maintainers – who theoretically owns code?
• Etherpad – lightweight shared public editor.
• MediaWiki code search
• Wikimedia LDAP browser

Deployments and the train

• Deployment calendar
• train-blockers – toolforge tool that links to the current train blocker task
• Wikimedia MediaWiki versions - what versions of MediaWiki are deployed in production right now?
• Core documentation for running the train

Status, logs, and monitoring

• Server admin logs:
  • production SAL
  • releng SAL
• Grafana – tons of production metrics
• Logstash – error logs; you will spend a lot of time here
• https://noc.wikimedia.org/ – current configuration
• Zuul Status

Team tools

• Weekly meeting notes
• phab.releng.team – Team phab board
• time.releng.team – Team timezone list
• runbooks.releng.team — Procedural instructions maintenance and common team tasks