Wikimedia Release Engineering Team/Checkin archive/20200722
2020-07-22
[edit]Tyler: I'm taking a vacation! Mukunda will be running the meeting today!
Vacations/Important dates
[edit]- 16–17 July: Mukunda's out, birthday ;) Happy birthday!
- 11–26 July: Antoine out
- 13th & 22–24 July: Tyler out
- 14 August (fill-in Tyler's birthday :)): US staff with reqs
- 7 Sep (Labor day): US staff with reqs
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
- 15 Jun - wmf.37 - Lars + Brennen
- 22 Jun - wmf.38 - Brennen + Antoine
- 29 Jun - wmf.39 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
- 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 + Ahmon
- 10 Aug - wmf.4 - Antoine + Mukunda (shortened train)
- Group2 on Wednesday US?
- 17 Aug - wmf.5 - Mukunda + Dan
- 24 Aug - wmf.6 - Dan + Jeena
- 1 Sep - DataCenter Switchover: no train
Status
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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:
- Updates:
- [All] Deployments/Covid-19 https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Covid-19
- Train Health
- Last week: 1.35.0-wmf.41 - phab:T256669
- This week: 1.36.0-wmf.1 - phab:T257969
- Next week: 1.36.0-wmf.2 - phab:T257970
Callouts
[edit]- 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
[edit]Incoming/Needs attention
[edit]Individual Tuning Sessions
[edit]Get started writing: https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Tuning_Conversations#The_questions
Book club/Lunch and Learn
[edit]- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Book_club
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Lunch_and_learn
- 2020-08-03: Train dev environment with Lars Wirzenius
- Send Lars your SSH public key
- 2020-08-03: Train dev environment with Lars Wirzenius
Monthly reflection on accomplishments - July '20 edition
[edit]- 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
- Jenkins node Docker image cleanup & re-onlining after disk space recovers
- Credentials and environment variables in PipelineLib
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 (2020-04 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!
[edit]Ahmon
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Blubber hacking
- Worst thing
- Noisy shinken alerts
What's on your workboard
[edit]Antoine
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]Brennen
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Slightly less-dysfunctional Jenkins.
- Worst thing
- Termites.
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=uRCGEVb0IxE9&order=priority
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4463/
Dan
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 0 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
[edit]
Jeena
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 30 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- hurray my teacup arrived
- Worst thing
- soooooo tired
What's on your workboard
[edit]Lars
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Made progress on train-dev
- Worst thing
- It's too warm
What's on your workboard
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Mukunda
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 40 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Bought an RX-8
- Worst thing
- Bought an RX-8
What's on your workboard
[edit]- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4845/?filter=yLH4WqzsWa.w&order=priority
- Progres on the phab metrics: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M308
Tyler
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 16 hours/week (out Wed-Fri)
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Deplo
- Worst thing
What's on your workboard
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Zeljko
[edit]- Current COVID19 status: 🏝 hours/week
Last week
[edit]- Best thing
- Donated blood after many years
- Worst thing
- It's hard to get enough sleep if you wake up early to run while it's not too warm