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2020-01-22

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Vacations/Important dates

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https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List
How to do it
  • 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)
  • 24 January: MModell (worked through the holiday on Monday, taking it on Friday)
  • [some dates TBC]: Antoine
  • 19–25 January: Lars working from LA
  • 20 January (Martin Luther King Jr. Day): Staff with reqs (US staff only?)
  • 27–31 January: All Hands
  • 17 February (Presidents' Day): Staff with reqs
  • 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): Staff with reqs
  • 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
  • 24 April (Not-Easter): Staff with reqs
  • 1 May (May Day): Lars
  • 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
  • 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
  • 25 May (Memorial Day): Staff with reqs

Rotating positions

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Train

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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

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  • Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Team Business

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Incoming/Needs attention

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All-Hands

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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

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Monthly reflection on accomplishments - January '20 edition

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
Add as you have them!
  • branch.py is in regular use (did we add this already?)


Scrum of Scrums for next week

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Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

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Incoming from last week (aka this morning)

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  • Blocked by:
  • Blocking:
  • Updates:
    • Train Health
      • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.16 - phab:T233864
      • Next week: No deploys at all (including train), Wikimedia Foundation All Hands - phab:T233865
Callouts
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  • 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

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  • No SoS because of All Hands
Callouts
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Train status and happenings

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Roles#Train_Conductor

Standup!

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Our Workboards

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Antoine

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Last week

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  • Best thing
  • Worst thing

What's on your workboard

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Brennen

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • branch.py seems to work.
  • Worst thing
    • Our cat is sick.

What's on your workboard

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Dan

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Daughter started crawling!
  • Worst thing
    • Childproofing

What's on your workboard

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Greg

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • TRIGGER WARNING: IRC/Slack/Matrix
      • Introduced OIT/Brendan to Michael Hoye of Mozilla re chat evaluation
      • He just introduced them to the lead person at Matrix
        • nice. :) thcipriani +1
  • Worst thing
    • metrics finding for the tuning session

What's on your workboard

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James

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Caught up on e-mail and actually responded to people.
  • Worst thing
    • Got ill, briefly.

What's on your workboard

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Jeena

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • I think my tree fern spores are germinating!
  • Worst thing
    • kfjsghjkfg ugh

What's on your workboard

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Lars

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Los Angeles weather and sunshine
  • Worst thing
    • Airplanes
    • Airports
    • Flights
    • Travel
    • Jet lag

What's on your workboard

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Mukunda

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Seemingly out of the woods with Phabricator stuff
  • Worst thing
    • Lost a lot of time rotating credentials and writing a 2fa invalidator. Also worked through a holiday on Monday to get everything ready to deploy with tonight's Phabricator upgrade.
      • :-(
      • :/

What's on your workboard

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Tyler

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • no cone dog
  • Worst thing
    • structural violence

What's on your workboard

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Zeljko

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Last week

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  • Best thing
    • Signed my contract 📜
  • Worst thing
    • Closing my company 👔

What's on your workboard

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What's on no-one's workboard

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