Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200708

2020-07-08

Vacations/Important dates

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

How to do it

• 3 July (4 July obs.): US staff with reqs
• 6-10 July: Brennen in Nebraska, working half time
• 6-8 July: Ahmon out
• July 11th - 26th: Antoine out
• July 13th,22-24: Tyler out

• 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs

• 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs

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

• 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
• 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
• 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda
  • Group2 on Wednesday US
• 6 Jul - wmf.40 - Mukunda + James
• 13 Jul - wmf.41 - James + Jeena [Note: Also REL1_35 branch.]
• 20 Jul - wmf.1 - Jeena + Lars
• 27 Jul - wmf.2 - Lars + Brennen
• 3 Aug - wmf.3 - Brennen + Antoine + Ahmon?

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
  • Train Health
    • Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.39 - phab:T254176
    • This week: 1.35.0-wmf.40 - phab:T256668
    • Next week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669

Callouts

• Release Engineering
  • [All] Review guidance at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19 and Code Deployment Office Hour at 17:00UTC in #wikimedia-office
  • "scap sync" will be renamed to "scap sync-world" in the next release. If you use "scap sync" non-interactively, please add a note to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250302 (and also, explain why you're using it)
  • scap sync now has option --canary-wait-time; https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217924

Team Business

Incoming/Needs attention

• CI pipeline/job to build and release helm chart artifacts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257333
• Mukunda: any updates on Error in pushing code to Gerrit for the phab-deployment repository? https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255761 (an intern and a volunteer are blocked on it) - working on it 👍

Individual Tuning Sessions

Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions

Book club/Lunch and Learn

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn

Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Monthly_notable_accomplishments

Add as you have them!

• CI now supports REL1_35 branches (and ignores REL1_33).
• Eliminate elasticsearch dependency from Phabricator search engine
• Cassandra Docker image

Q1 Planning

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TJzNE_gprJrqYUU1xecMmDLBk8rIJIElGILjJyhG3xw/edit#
• Due July 10th
• Thcipriani to add top-level

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 (2020-04 to 2020-06 (Q4))): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/4621/
  • "Current viewer" owned: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/query/assigned/?order=priority

TODO Triage!

• • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/release-engineering-team-todo/
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=Pg88woQKrIOe

Ahmon

• Current COVID19 status: XX hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?order=priority&filter=DS.IkJV3YwZL

Antoine

• Current COVID19 status: 40+ hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Vacations
  • Published git v2 announcement https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/199/
• Worst thing
  • Docker and unpinned dependencies ...

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=nwFFWMci0N9z&order=priority

Brennen

• Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (quasi-vacationing)

Last week

• Best thing
  • It's nice to do manual labor instead of staring at computer screens
• Worst thing
  • My back hurts now

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/

Dan

• Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ZMRlYSTUJ1uG&order=priority

James

• Current COVID19 status: 0 & 40 // Ψ state hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority
• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=ywo92pzN36XN&order=priority

Jeena

• Current COVID19 status: 27 hours/week (holiday Fri)

Last week

• Best thing
  • I now have a cool and useful phabricator dashboard thanks to Mukunda
• Worst thing

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=J72JaCYtpq4t&order=priority

Lars

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • New home
  • Got my laptop sticker finally
• Worst thing
  • Moving house

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=fSx2fy0m2NNS&order=priority

Mukunda

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • Easiest train ever so far (thanks James!)
• Worst thing
  • Waking up ~0 minutes before this meeting.
  • Honerable mention: cloud-init

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority

Tyler

• Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week

Last week

• Best thing
  • reviewing last quarter's accomplishments, it was a lot
  • now tremendously in debt :)
• Worst thing
  • filling in slides decks for management fun

What's on your workboard

• https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4621/?filter=WfsTgMQcAW9I&order=priority

Zeljko

• Current COVID19 status: L-X hours/week
  • that's just "XL" :P

Last week

• Best thing
  • Started preparing for marathon in September 🏃‍♂️
• Worst thing
  • Dropped phone in water 🌊

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/4621/?order=priority&filter=FbiTHsu1qnIn