Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200318
2020-03-18
[edit]Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 5 March-6 March: Tyler (long weekend)
- 30 March-3 April: Greg (Spring Break)
- 5-10 April: Tech Mgt F2F in Berlin (Greg, Tyler, Gilles, Jean-Rene)
- Although, presumably, we're doing *something*, but Berlin travel is cancelled
- 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) - James and no-one else from RelEng?
- 14-15 May: Jeena, maybe
- 17-22 May: EngProd offsite (Lisbon, Portugal) - Everyone CANCELLED
- 17-22 May: EngProd Virtual Offsite (your home) - Everyone
- time, details, etc TBD
- 21 May (Ascencion Day): Lars
- 25 May (Memorial Day): (US?) Staff with reqs
- 29-31 May: Brennen (family reunion (almost certainly not))
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 - 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
- 20 Apr - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
- 27 Apr - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine
- 4 May - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda
- 11 May - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
- 18 May - wmf.6 - Dan + James
= Status
[edit]SoS
[edit]- 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/
Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes
[edit]SoS going async for now.
Outgoing
[edit]- Blocked by:
- Blocking:
- Wikimedia DE/Wikidata: would appreciate someone chiming in on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T245826
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.23 - phab:T233871
- This week: 1.35.0-wmf.24 - phab:T233872
- Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.25 - phab:T233873
Callouts
[edit]- Release Engineering
- [All] MediaWiki 1.35.0 will get cut on 7 April 2020. If your team has any proposed blockers/deadlines for that, please get them done: phab:tag/MW-1.35-release
- [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
Team Business
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]Book club
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- Add new suggestions ^
- nobody seems to have made a notes page for last time
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments
- Add as you have them!
- scap has its first integration test
- …
Annual Planning for July 2020–June 2021
[edit]If at first you don't plan, plan and plan again
- Async: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2020-2021-planning
- By end of the month more refined Key Results
- C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week
Q4 Planning
[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
TODO Triage! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
Antoine
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
- Thinking about the train was better than thinking about the world.
- Also Slack.
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
- Someone dressed in full hazmat riding a unicycle while dribbling a basketball. And cozy loafers.
- Worst thing
- Pandemic curves.
What's on your workboard
[edit]
James
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- My health and that of those about whom I care.
- Worst thing
- Being cooped up.
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Jeena
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- I eagerly await the arrival of massaging foot bath
- Worst thing
- social isolation nooooooo
- slack noooooo
- all the food is gone nooooo
- noooooooooo http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/ :D
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Lars
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Got some thinking done about acceptance criteria for automating security patches application for train and it doesn't seem hopeless
- Worst thing
- Decrees from above
What's on your workboard
[edit]Mukunda
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Nearly quit smoking cigs, still vaping but it's an improvement
- Worst thing
- ugh
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Tyler
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Zeljko
[edit]Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- The entire family at home. All the time. THE ENTIRE FAMILY. ALL THE TIME.
- Worst thing
- Half-marathon (21 km) this Sunday is cancelled. I've been training for it for months. So, I'm running it alone. Like a crazy person I am.