Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200115
2020-01-15
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 1 January (New Year's Day): Staff with reqs, Lars
- 2 January: Lars
- 2–3 January: James, Thcipriani
- 2-10 January: Dan
- 6 January: probably Lars (public holiday because it's been N days since Xmas)
- [some dates TBC]: Antoine
- 19-25 January: Lars working from LA
- 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs (US staff only?)
- 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
- 9 March (US DST+1 day): Staff with reqs
- 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
- 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): Staff with reqs
Rotating positions
[edit]Train
[edit]- Maniphest query for deployment blocker tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s3KW8bpsXhYF/#R
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Important_dates
- 23 Dec - wmf.12 - No Train or any other deploys (Winterval)
- 30 Dec - wmf.13 - No Train or any other deploys (Still Winterval)
- 6 Jan - wmf.14 - Jeena + Lars
- 13 Jan - wmf.15 - Lars + Brennen
- 20 Jan - wmf.16 - Brennen + Mukunda
- 27 Jan - wmf.17 - No Train or any other deploys (Wikimedia Foundation all-staff)
- 3 Feb - wmf.18 - Mukunda + Dan
- 10 Feb - wmf.19 - Dan + James
- 17 Feb - wmf.20 - James + Jeena
- 24 Feb - wmf.21 - Jeena + Lars
- 2 Mar - wmf.22 - Lars + Brennen
- 9 Mar - wmf.23 - Brennen + Antoine
- 16 Mar - wmf.24 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 23 Mar - wmf.25 - Mukunda + Dan
- 30 Mar - wmf.26 - Dan + Jeena
- 6 Apr - wmf.27 - Jeena + James
- 13 Apr - 1.36.0-wmf.1 - James + Lars
SoS
[edit]- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- Kosta blocked on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T238004#5802271
All-Hands
[edit]https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_hands/2020/Conference_Schedule
- Monday: "Department day" in the afternoon
- Tuesday: "Team day" in the afternoon
- Think about people you want to reach out to face-to-face
- Thursday has "Open time"
- Friday is "Unconference"
Book club
[edit]Monthly reflection on accomplishments - January '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
Scrum of Scrums for next week
[edit]Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
[edit]Incoming from last week (aka this morning)
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - phab:T233863
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - phab:T233864
- January 27-31: 1.35.0-wmf.17 No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands - phab:T233865
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
- Train Health
Callouts
[edit]- Release Engineering
- January 27-31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
- The weekly MediaWiki branch cut is moving to full automation soon. If the timing of the branch cut affects you, please join the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242446
Outgoing next week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.15 - phab:T233863
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - phab:T233864
- Next week: No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
- Train Health
Callouts
[edit]- Release Engineering - January 27–31 - No deploys at all (including train), All-Hands
Train status and happenings
[edit]Standup!
[edit]- Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
Our Workboards
[edit]- Unfortunate Wasteland of Sadness (Release Engineering Team): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/20/
- Kanban-ish (Release Engineering Team TODO): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4104/
- Current work (Release Engineering Team TODO (2020-01 to 2020-03 (Q3))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4437/
Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
- What's on your workboard
Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Personal Phabricator workboard seems useful.
- Worst thing
- Dell. Well, computers generally.
- What's on your workboard
Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Finished first pipelinelib (.pipeline/config.yaml) tutorial.
- Noemie doing cool things.
- Worst thing
- Sickness.
- What's on your workboard
Greg
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Not having the data I need to give Grant metrics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242826
- What's on your workboard
James
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Got rid of all JS CI for parsoid, they're now PHP-only (but still no tests in /deploy yet!).
- Worst thing
- Stopped the creation of post-merge MW docker images per SRE. :-(
- My documentation fail broke Lars's train. Sorry!
- What's on your workboard
Jeena
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- ?
- Worst thing
- aches of the head
- What's on your workboard
Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Did my GTD review for the first time since Christmas
- Worst thing
- So, so much to do. Also, train.
- What's on your workboard
Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Bleh
- Worst thing
- OKRs
- What's on your workboard?
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- I got a filing cabinet.
- Worst thing
- 3 hour meetings :(
- What's on your workboard
Zeljko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- started training for half-marathon in March 🏃♂️
- Worst thing
- no contract yet 📜
- What's on your workboard