Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200325

2020-03-25

Vacations/Important dates

https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/HR_Corner/Holiday_List

How to do it

• 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 (waiting to cancel the reservation until airbnb extends its covid policy))

Rotating positions

Train

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 (and Antoine, apparently :-))
• 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 (or are we too busy doing the virtual offsite?)
• 25 May - wmf.7 - James + Jeena
• 1 Jun - wmf.8 - Jeena + Lars
• 8 Jun - wmf.9 - Lars + Brennen
• 15 Jun - wmf.10 - Brennen + Antoine
• 22 Jun - wmf.11 - Antoine + Mukunda

= Status

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

SoS

• 2019-08-14 onwards: Zeljko 🎸 🎷 \o/

Internal team notes, not for pasting into the SoS notes

SoS going async for now. 🎻

Outgoing

• Blocked by:
• Blocking:
• 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

• 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

Book club

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
  • Add new suggestions ^
  • Email Soon™

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - March '20 edition

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

• • HOLD **

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 [March 2020?] more refined Key Results
• C-Level discussoin happening tomorrow, cleanup next week

Q4 Planning

• • https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/RelEngTeam-Weekly-fy2019-2020-q4planning

Standup!

• Make sure your tasks are correct on our workboard!
  • https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Bug_triage

Our Workboards

• 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

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing
  • Math.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

Last week

• Best thing
  • A strange hopefulness that after the COVID-19 outbreak has passed, people will realize we can make drastic and immediate change to solve big existential problems like climate change.
• Worst thing
  • Dread that we're doomed.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing
  • Communications failure
  • It's been a week since I've left the house. Halp.

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

Last week

• Best thing
  • my foot bath arrived
• Worst thing
  • it broke T.T

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

Last week

• Best thing
  • Pushed three changes to Gerrit for Scap
• Worst thing
  • People

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248273 is really weird and I can't explain it

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

Last week

• Best thing
  • Hiring moving forward
  • Working with JR + Will on https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
• Worst thing
  • Not knowing what to do with beans
    • Due to a great article: https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/01/ideas-for-cooking-dried-beans-best-heirloom-beans-rancho-gordo-alternatives.html I have a lot of beans
    • I can only eat so much bean soup
    • If you have lentils you can make mjudderah (make sure to add lots of cumin!), it's great with cucumber tomato salad and yogurt!
    • I have a good kale tuscan soup recipe (made with cannellini beans)
    • Homemade baked beans are better than canned ones
      • As are homemade refried beans

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

Last week

• Best thing
  • 5 am Coronavirus solo half-marathon during earthquake 😱 https://www.strava.com/activities/3205610326
• Worst thing
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Zagreb_earthquake

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1938/

What's on no-one's workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4437/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn