Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200219
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2020-02-19
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- [some dates TBC]: Antoine not available
- any news? train in mid-March?
- 9 March (US DST switchover + 1 day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- 10-13 April (Easter): Lars
- 24 April (Not-Easter): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 1 May (May Day): Lars
- 9–11 May: Wikimedia Hackathon 2020 (Tirana, Albania) - TBD
- 15 May: Jeena
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion)
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
- 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 - No Train or any other deploys (Data center switchover)
- 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
- 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
SoS
[edit]- Aug 14 onward: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]- [James] T245054 Remote call on integration-agent-docker-1001 failed
- Repooling thcipriani
- if not...to the task
- [James] T238224 Landing the Docker in core patch — I think we'll need a formal-ish release announcement when we merge it.
- James to draft initial announcement.
- Brennen to assert that it's working.
- [James] Eurgh Parsoid deploy strategy. Need meeting.
- James to make meeting. Tyler/Mukunda/James, Parsing, ?SRE Service Ops.
Book club
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/engprod-bookclub-2019-02-25
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - February '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- Production releases of Parsoid/PHP now also go through final pre-production tests.
- Scap release 1.13.0.
Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
[edit]If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
ACTIONS:
- Everyone tell Tyler in 1:1s what they need from other teams and budgets
- Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
Leveling
[edit]- Next 1:1s -- not this week/today
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:
- Analytics: The manual analytics-refinery-release and analytics-refinery-update-jars Jenkins jobs need to be ported from bare-metal Jessie into Docker (or just dropped) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210271
- Performance: Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245570
- Blocking:
- SRE on on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
- (Performance) Duplicate entry 'ext.uls.pt-vector|en' for key 'PRIMARY' https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245570
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - phab:T233869
- Train Health
Callouts
[edit]- SRE blocked by RelEng on phab:T217924 (Make canary wait time configurable)
Outgoing next week
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Updates:
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.19 - phab:T233867
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.20 - phab:T233868
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.21 - phab:T233869
- Train Health
Callouts
[edit]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/
- "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/query/assigned/?order=priority
Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- I'm learning about synthesizers, kind of.
- Free software advocacy group
- Worst thing
- My cat is sick.
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Bernie Sanders 2020 rally in Richmond, CA this past Monday 👴🏻🌹🎉
- Worst thing
- US primary election anxiety
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Greg
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=xJCE2T4qffHM&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1436/
James
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Working with Security and upstream on stylelint vulns was much more productive than anticipated.
- Worst thing
- Parsoid deploy strategy concerns.
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Jeena
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Tagged scap release, after fixing a "scap version" bug
- https://purrli.com/ (thcipriani: this is amazing.)
- Worst thing
- It took way too much effort to get the scap release tagged (hopefully easier next time)
What's on your workboard
[edit]Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worked with Brennen on some phabricator search code
- Worst thing
- Too many tasks on the workboard
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Planning, planning, sooo much
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Zeljko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Finished level 1 on Duolingo for Portugese 🇵🇹😅(I can ask for water. That's pretty much all I know.)
- Worst thing
- Lost in ERFs and OKRs